🤖 TRVE Rig: What We Learned from Amp & Cab Captures

As we wrapped the amp and cabinet capturing phase for TRVE Rig, we walked away with some unexpected (and surprisingly refreshing) insights. Here’s what stood out as we dialed tones, moved mics, and lived in the trenches of tone-shaping.

🎛️ The Cheapest Pedal Might Win

One of the biggest revelations? Sometimes a simple pedal — even one you’ve seen collecting dust at pawn shops — sounds richer, fuller, and more mix-ready than a boutique $3,000 amp, especially when mic’d properly.

It’s not about the price tag. It’s about voicing, character, and how it fits into a mix.

🔊 The Cab is (Almost) Everything

Dialing tones through 4x12 cabinets taught us something equally humbling:
You need less amp gain than you think.

The natural air-pushing quality of a good cab does a lot of the heavy lifting. Adding more gain on the amp just muddies things up. By the end of the capture process, we found ourselves rolling back distortion in favor of dynamics and clarity.

🎤 The Secret Weapon: sE V7X

Mic of choice?
The sE Electronics V7X — hands down.

Its guitar-friendly voicing, hypercardioid pattern, and natural midrange lift made it an absolute cheat code for tight, punchy tones that just work in a mix.

If you’re building your own cab mic locker, this one’s a no-brainer.

🧠 A Massive Library With a Soul

TRVE Rig isn’t just a plugin — it’s a living library of tones.

With 19 amps (yes, nineteen), a range of cabs from 1x12s to 4x12s, and a carefully curated signal path that doesn’t kill your creative flow, this thing is built to sound like you — not like a soulless preset.

🎯 Personal Guarantee:
You will find something in TRVE Rig that sounds like home.

📅 What’s Next?

Now that the captures are complete, we’re deep into plugin development mode.
Expect a streamlined interface, no-bloat workflow, and tones that go from gritty rehearsal room to polished production in seconds.

👉 Launch Goal: Black Friday 2025