Voxengo Boogex - User Testimonials
I'm a non-professional but still devoided french guitar player/arranger. I've been working on music at various stages (singer, guitar player, songwriter, arranger, both in studios and on stage) for more than ten years now. And I can say in all honesty that the Boogex is the only I like using to enhance/reshape the sounds I produce with my guitar and pedals (very few pedals actually but, it's true all of them top-quality).
My sound-engineer (on other projects than the ones I lead) first told me that he didn't like the Boogex but after he watched me work with it, he eventually decided to use it and now does use it often. I think it's the best plug-in I have, or at least I can SAY that it's the one I use the most. And, by Jove, it's FREE!
Actually (honest) I was checking this site to see if there was any chance of bying the same stuff as hardware to go onstage with it as nearly all my guitar sounds have some Boogex features in tem and we're going onstage soon. Well... I'm going to check out the compressors for I need one to master our debut album (already nicely reviewed as a demo in mags).
To conclude I would say that I will sign with just my initials so that nobody can find me, for I like my sound (and journalists in many countries have said they did too so...) and I would hate people to have such a clue about how it's made (even if other "secrets" are involved...). I would hate people thinking such a praise of the Boogex to be some sort of advertisemnt. It's FREE. They don't even sell this stuff and its GREAT. I mean. Thank you for that, really.
Voxengo's Boogex gets my vote as easily the best-sounding and most usable guitar amp, at any price, that we've seen to date. To non technically-minded guitar players like myself the interface may be a bit off-putting - after all it IS more complex than my old Super Reverb but Aleksey at Voxengo really does know what he's doing and every knob is there for a good reason. The Emphasis and Cut filters alone give endless sonically pleasing possibilities once you've got the hang of using them, so it really is worth taking time out to fully understand and master this superb plugin - your patience will be rewarded. Why does it sound so good? As somebody said in one of these testimonials: "Aleksey has better ears than the rest" - it's as simple as that.
Here's an interesting forum thread that gives an insight into Aleksey's development of Boogex: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1231892