A versatile amp sim built on the DriveNET engine, faithfully modelling the high-gain Mr. Hector head and the flexible EL84-based Beast amp.

Mr. Hector has been completely rebuilt with Aurora DSP’s DriveNET engine, which captures the gain structure, tone stack, speaker behaviour and even the interaction between channel volumes and power-amp dynamics. The 100 W Mr. Hector delivers ultra-high gain with tight lows, two channels with a shared EQ, Bright and Mid switches and a selectable valve or diode rectifier, while the three-channel 30 W Beast with EL84 valves ranges from Clean and Crunch to a Drive channel with a Character knob. Four freely rearrangeable pedals, SpeakerX cabinet modelling with mic selection and placement, and a studio-style FX rack with EQ, compressors, delay, reverb, chorus and tremolo complete the signal chain. A tuner, transpose, MIDI control and a headphone studio mode make the suite practical both in the studio and live.

Features

• DriveNET neural network modelling, including power-amp dynamics
• Two amps: Mr. Hector (100 W, two channels) and Beast (30 W, three channels, EL84)
• Four rearrangeable pedals: Custom Overdrive, OctaFuzz, Crunch Booster and 6-band input EQ
• Six modelled cabinets and speaker types (V30, Creamback, MT77, Veteran 30, Deamon, CV75)
• Four mics per cabinet with adjustable position, distance and angle
• SpeakerX engine: real-time non-linear speaker behaviour based on Klippel physical modelling

Technical details

• Type: plug-in (guitar amp simulation)
• Operating systems: Windows, macOS
• Licensing: computer-bound

The licence is registered with the manufacturer at https://auroradsp.com/download-files. You will receive your serial number and the download link by e-mail immediately after purchase.