Plugin Review – Friedman DS40 amp by Universal Audio

By Pierre Journel
Published on 2019-03-28

Here's a video review of the Friedman DS40 plugin available in the Universal Audio Apollo interface. Friedman is well know for the quality of their tube amp. That's why I was very curious to test drive the plugin based on their DS40 model.

Here's a screenshot of the plugin :

Setup used for the review

The guitar used is a double humbucker instrument built by luthier Benoît Guilbert and loaded with a pair of Dominger pickups.

The instrument was plugged straight into the Apollo Twin Duo interface. The recording was done on two tracks on a Macbook Air using GarageBand. Just a touch of reverb was added to the guitar track.