The Watering Hole

http://lepouplugins.blogspot.com/

Holy crap.  This guy only makes 5 or 6 amps... I ran the 64-bit VSTs through Recabinet in Pro Tools. Umm, HFS indeed.  Sick, detailed, beautiful amp models. Of course they lean towards high gain, Engl, Mesa, crush your children, etc. But the Bogner Ecstasy model has some great cleaner sounds, and the Marshall model does too. These are the best amp models I've used in plugin form, hands down. And free, so definitely worth a shot.  Recabinet is not free, I got it for $20 a year or two ago.

I downloaded them.  I'll check them out one of these days.  I had run across the Ignite Amps plug-ins from some IR surfing.  This guy links to them on the page you posted.  You might check those out as well, if you haven't.  I used one of the plugs for loading IR cabs and it seemed pretty fair and non system taxing.

Yeah, I was pretty surprised on the LePou usage, with an amp sim and recabinet it was using literally almost nothing for system usage.  There's a switch on the plugin to go from low to high quality (the ecstasy model has three quality settings)--switching from the lowest quality to the highest quality setting, in Pro Tools 11, it went from 2% to 4%... on one core out of 8! at 128 samples of latency.  I'm not sure how much of that is down to the plugin, and how much is the architecture improvements with PT 11--certainly couldn't have got near that on PT 10.

Well, I'll have to agree with you.  These are certainly better than some Amp sims I've paid for in the past.  I was really impressed with the Ecstasy Clean.  I liked some of the Gain sounds from the Marshall.  I ran them through the Two Notes WOS III.  I bought a few 2x12 IR cabs a while back to legitimize the WOS Program.  The WOS has an Amp sim but I've never used it.  I'll have to compare it to some of these.  I didn't spend a bunch of time with each.  I just fiddled with them some to check them out.  Pretty cool find.  Certainly no worse than these other cat killin' sounds I've been making.