PLUG AND PLAY: THE PRESETS
GUITAR RIG 4 is fun right from the start! You don't have to enter the abyss of sound design yourself to find a perfect guitar sound: over 100 presets, designed by professional guitarists and bass players, offer instant tone satisfaction in any situation! Plus, you can download many more exclusive presets by famous GUITAR RIG 4 users on our downloads page.
The preset collection of GUITAR RIG 4 ESSENTIAL offers a great range of guitar and bass sounds and setups, from clean to hi-gain, from classic to experimental – all perfectly sortable by keywords for your convenience:
For every guitar and bass amp, there’s a selection of common and well-balanced setups to start you off. You can also look for sounds by browsing through popular genres or different categories of special effects. The latter also contains presets for processing other instruments such as drums and synths. To get you inspired with signature tones, the Songs category contains plenty of presets paying homage to legendary guitarists and famous studio productions.
Enabling what’s impossible with hardware amps and effects, the preset system is at the heart of GUITAR RIG 4’s usability. The completely re-designed Preset Browser is an effective and intuitive sound management system at your service. Saving your virtual rack as a preset and recalling it anytime later is a matter of seconds, so you’ll never again lose that one magic constellation of knobs. When it comes to separating the wheat from the chaff, the sleek new rating system is a real time-saver.
With the completely re-designed Preset Browser and a new high-performance search function navigating through your collection is a joy – either by browsing through lists by keywords (Tags), or by typing some letters into the search bar. And there’s much more:
- Use tags and sub-tags to organize your presets any way you want
- roup presets into setlists for using them live on stage
- Share presets with your friends or the Guitar Rig user community
- Use Component Presets to add any component to the Rack readily configured
Working with sounds has never been easier or more efficient!

