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Electrum Black Friday pricing brings United Plugins' guitar amp simulator plugin to $16, 90% off, with the deal running until Nov 29, 2026.
Electrum is a single-screen guitar rig: amps, cabinets, distortions, reverb, modulation, delay, EQ and a tuner in one window. The maker says it covers any electric guitar style, from jazz to modern metal, rhythm or solo.
The signal chain is built from these parts:
The amps share common controls, and so do the distortions. The maker says this keeps setup quick and free of confusion.
The cabinet section is not a plain IR set. The maker says it generates its sound rather than playing back impulse responses.
Hit the Analyse Input Level button and play your strings as hard as you intend to in the track. Electrum then sets the input level to suit your signal, which gives each processor a sensible working point for gain staging.
EQ Matching analyses a guitar performance you like. Loop it in your session, let Electrum listen, and it matches your tone to it automatically.
The reverb section offers Hall, Room, Plate, Cathedral, Shimmer and Ethereal. Each has high and low damping and ducking, so the tail steps back while you play.
The modulation section merges chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and sweeper into one block, so you can blend them. The delay is a double-tap design with sync, modulation and saturation.
The doubler is the maker's answer to double-tracking: enable it and record once. The Magic EQ adds a special guitar frequency the maker calls X.
You can also reorder the modules, for example putting the distortion after the amp or the reverb before a flanger.
The maker says the interface comes in 3D and 2D styles, switchable at any time, with no effect on sound or CPU load. You can resize the window from the corner.
Processing runs at 64-bit internally and handles any sampling rate, including 192 kHz and above. Smart Bypass avoids clicks and compensates for latency. Sleep on Silence drops CPU use to almost nothing when no signal is present.
Activation uses licence files, so no iLok, dongle or internet connection is needed.
Yes. The Electrum Black Friday deal takes 90% off the United Plugins guitar amp simulator, so it costs $16. The offer ends Nov 29, 2026.
Electrum includes five amps, three distortions and over 300 cabinet models. It adds reverb, multi-modulation, a double-tap delay, a doubler, a 7-band EQ and a poly-tuner, plus global and per-effect presets.
On Mac it comes as VST2, VST3, AAX or AU, on macOS 10.10 or later, for Intel and Apple Silicon. On Windows it comes as VST2, VST3 or AAX, on Windows 8 to 11. Both are 64-bit only.
Load a guitar performance you admire into your session and loop it so Electrum can analyse it. Then analyse your own guitar sound, and Electrum automatically matches your tone to that reference.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.