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With Planet of the Amps, Safari Audio delivers an amp pack for guitarists and producers seeking a lively vintage tone, organic dynamics and authentic tube character. The collection brings together two distinct amp personalities, the Silver Llama and the Twin Panda, covering a broad spectrum from warm saturation, biting crunch and open clean tones right through to punchy lead sounds. The result is not a sterile amp tool, but a package with genuine responsiveness, plenty of feel under your fingers and a sound that sounds like music straight away.
The appeal of Planet of the Amps lies in the combination of two amplifiers that have been deliberately tuned to differ from one another. Rather than throwing a whole host of mediocre models into a single package, Safari Audio has focused here on two sounds that are clearly distinct from one another and therefore help you achieve your goals particularly quickly in everyday studio work.
The Silver Llama delivers a raw, harmonically rich tone with warm mids and a dense, beautifully responsive break-up. This amp is aimed at players seeking precisely that feeling of a heavily driven vintage valve amp. The sound responds dynamically to playing style and attack, making it feel direct, organic and lively. It’s a particularly powerful tone for gripping riffs, bluesy crunch sounds, indie guitars and gritty vintage textures.
The Twin Panda represents the more versatile, open-sounding side of this bundle. It delivers clear clean tones, a deep foundation and open highs, but can just as easily shift into a beautifully saturated crunch or singing lead tones. This makes it ideal for players looking for everything from bluesy warmth to powerful rock sounds in a single amp. Its musicality and responsiveness to playing dynamics are particularly evident during dynamic playing.
Planet of the Amps was designed for users who love classic guitar sounds but don’t want to compromise on a fast and reliable workflow. The two amps deliver exactly the kind of warmth, depth and harmonic richness you’d expect from vintage amplifiers, yet are much easier to integrate into modern productions.
This makes the bundle ideal not only for solo guitar tracks, but also for rhythm guitars, layers, reamp sounds and creative productions where vintage tone is not merely referenced, but actually put to use.
An important feature of Planet of the Amps is dynamic gain staging. The amps respond naturally to the volume of the guitar and to the way it is played. This means that sounds can not only be adjusted, but also truly played. This is precisely where good amp simulations begin to feel musical.
Saturation and Presence allow you to further refine the basic character. This lets you shape the sound to be either warmer and denser, or more open and assertive. This makes both amps flexible enough for a wide range of productions, despite their clear fundamental character.
In addition, two vintage microphone options are available, which push the sound further towards a studio finish. This allows you to quickly achieve different tonal colours without having to set up an external microphone system. Especially when working directly within the production workflow, this saves time and keeps the focus on what matters most: the sound.
To ensure that the sounds not only respond well but also perform cleanly and stably within the mix, Planet of the Amps offers oversampling and auto gain. This ensures greater fidelity, more consistent levels and a more pleasant experience when adjusting settings. This is a noticeable advantage, particularly with higher levels of saturation.
This amp pack is ideal for anyone looking for vintage guitar sounds with genuine responsiveness. It’s a perfect fit for blues, rock, indie, alternative, soul, retro-pop and modern productions where guitars are meant to sound big, musical and full of character, rather than sterile and flat. Anyone who prefers two powerful tools with their own distinct character to an endless list of interchangeable models will find exactly what they’re looking for here.
macOS
VST3, AU, AAX
Windows 64-bit
VST3, AAX
Processor
1 GHz Intel Dual Core or AMD equivalent
RAM
at least 4 GB
8 GB recommended
Operating systems
Mac OS X 10.15 or later
Windows 8 or later
Safaripedals Planet of the Amps License Code