The clarity and sustain in the pickups make Hydra a great choice for any kind of 'gaze' style music too. But as you can hear in our walkthrough video and demos, the clean tone possibilities are just as impressive.

Naturally this is a killer guitar for rock and metal music, particularly heavy subgenres and progressive variations. With the right writing (see our 'Masterclass' series on YouTube, below) you can make rhythm parts, chords, and leads that will drop jaws with their sound and realism.

Some open-string sustain notes ring out for over 40 seconds! Thanks to exhaustive sampling of all useful articulations, dynamics, RR variations, and layers, Hydra gives you all the tools you need to create absolutely incredible guitar tracks. They not only have distinct and useful tones (neck & bridge positions), but their clarity and low noise floor is unmatched. These pickups put Shreddage 3 Hydra in its own class, even compared to our other instruments. We selected an 'Iron Label' RGIF8 drop-tuned to low E for our guitar, and equipped it with Fishman Fluence Tosin Abasi Signature pickups. Now it's finally done, and you can enjoy the ultimate rock and metal virtual guitar in your music. Our internal bar of quality was so high that we recorded the entire sample set three times in our pursuit of the perfect performances and tone.

This is our vision of what a no-compromises, maximum-quality 8-string guitar should be. Shreddage 3 Hydra runs via the Kontakt free player under VST, AU and AAX plugin formats for both PC and Mac.Shreddage 3 Hydra is the culmination of everything we at Impact Soundworks have learned in 10 years of creating virtual guitars. The price is more than reasonable and existing Shreddage 3 instrument users qualify for discounted crossgrade pricing. You can get going straight away with one of these snapshots or if you prefer to build and tweak your own, then you can get to the nitty gritty and tweak to your hearts content. Shreddage 3 Hydra includes 55 production-ready snapshots with effects that can be easily edited in the included Console FX rack and mixer. Modern metal genres thrive on high-performance, well-tuned, dynamic instruments and to include this type of hardware is definitely the way to go for a virtual 8-string. This attention to detail should pay off, as these are aspects that many modern multi-scale players look for when choosing their instruments. The developers used fan fret guitars and also had the foresight to use the already highly-regarded Fishman Fluence Tosin Abasi Signature pickup set on their 8-string guitars. Shreddage 3 HYDRA: Virtual 8-string guitar Fishman Fluence

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