ENGL® Savage 120 Amplifier
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A go-to legend for punishing metal tones.
The Savage 120 Amplifier embodies ENGL’s rich legacy of punishing metal machines. A favorite of Exodus’ Gary Holt, as well as Dimmu Borgir, Sodom, and Primal Fear, the ENGL Savage 120 has metal bonafides to spare.
Developed by Brainworx, and available exclusively for UAD hardware and Apollo interfaces, the ENGL Savage 120 Amplifier plug-in is an exacting emulation of this beastly, standard-bearing tone monster.Track through the ferocious ENGL Savage 120 amp with near-zero latency on your Apollo-equipped workstation
Shape tones further with FX Rack’s Vintage Delay, noise gate, high/low filters, and more
Perfectly sculpt ultra-aggressive metal sounds with a bevy of onboard tone-shaping tools
Audition 100 different high-end Recording Chains with a premium selection of mics, cabinets, and outboard gear
Take a Listen
The Most Savage ENGL
The ENGL roster of amps features a multitude of bonecrushers — but the Savage 120 reigns over all for its unabashedly modern aggressiveness and punch. Its fast attack coupled with intense crunch and face-melting distortion tones have made it a weapon of mass destruction in the studio and on stage.
Fierce, but Flexible
The ENGL Savage 120 plug-in expertly models the amp’s four channels, dual three-band EQ, and tone shaping tools like Depth Boost, Rough/Smooth, Contour, and Presence, giving you total control of your tones.
Savage FX Rack
The ENGL Savage 120 plug-in offers additional control over your tones via the Brainworx FX Rack. It features a Noise Gate, Vintage Delay, switchable high and low-pass filters, and a Power Soak circuit that allows you to dial in as much overdrive as you want, without having to crank the output gain.
The ENGL Savage 120 plug-in also includes 100 impulse response Recording Chains that were perfectly captured from several boutique cabinets and recorded through Brainworx's vintage Neve console with an array of high-end and vintage microphones and outboard gear, giving you "record ready" tones, instantly.
Unison™ Technology for Authentic ENGL Tones
The interaction of your guitar’s pickups to an amp’s front end is crucial to capturing the tone and feel of the amplifier. With UA’s Unison technology, Apollo user's guitar pickups will see the exact impedance load as if they’re plugged into an ENGL Savage 120 — a feature found only on Apollo audio interfaces.
“The ENGL Savage 120 plug-in is just
perfect for high quality home recording.”
– Jen Majura (Evanescence)Customer Reviews
C. Clark
August 31, 2024
Savage
One of the better high gain amp sims I’ve found. Using it in the Unison slot feels like the real thing.
Read MoreE. Sedrick
May 4, 2024
Super Picky
I'm super picky about my amps and especially virtual amps. This one (Savage 120) is really great for all styles. Great clean...
Read MoreK. Hankins
March 23, 2024
My guitar player swears by this amp!
I record alot of guitars with various players and Atla Gadget swears by this AMP. So I had to buy it for our sessions. It has a rich tone and fits right in the mix with sonic precision....
Read MoreK. Hankins
March 23, 2024
My guitar player swears by this amp!
I record alot of guitars with various players and Atla Gadget swears by this AMP. So I had to buy it for our sessions. It has a rich tone and fits right in the mix with sonic precision....
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Features
Exacting emulation of the original, legendary ENGL Savage 120 Tube Guitar Amplifier
Four assignable channels: Clean, Crunch 1, Crunch 2, and Lead
Three-Band EQ per channel
Four gain stages and a separate volume control for each channel
Rough/Smooth mode selector for the Crunch and Lead channels
Two independent voicing and master sections per channel
EQs, Sensitivity switch, Bright switch, Lead Boost, Contour switch, and Hi-Balance control
100 advanced Impulse Responses (IR) to catch all styles and genres from high-gain to creamy-clean sounds
FX Rack includes host-syncable lo-fi delay, noise gate, tight and smooths filters, and power soak with pre and power amp bypass
Physical input impedance and hands-on control of Gain staging with Unison™ technology
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Customer Reviews
ENGL Savage 120 Amplifier
U. Sabiniewicz
Thats mine
The sound Like.
L. Brown
A+
A+
C. Clark
Savage
One of the better high gain amp sims I’ve found. Using it in the Unison slot feels like the real thing.
E. Sedrick
Super Picky
I'm super picky about my amps and especially virtual amps. This one (Savage 120) is really great for all styles. Great clean tones, light gain tones, great solos, great power chords, great high gain metal chugging. Many options, but they become easy to understand within a half hour learning them. This is one of the very best amps available on UAD platform, pop, rock, country, metal, anything, it will do it no problem.
K. Hankins
My guitar player swears by this amp!
I record alot of guitars with various players and Atla Gadget swears by this AMP. So I had to buy it for our sessions. It has a rich tone and fits right in the mix with sonic precision.
K. Hankins
My guitar player swears by this amp!
I record alot of guitars with various players and Atla Gadget swears by this AMP. So I had to buy it for our sessions. It has a rich tone and fits right in the mix with sonic precision.
K. Hankins
My guitar player swears by this amp!
I record alot of guitars with various players and Atla Gadget swears by this AMP. So I had to buy it for our sessions. It has a rich tone and fits right in the mix with sonic precision.
V. Manoukian
Sounds like my real Savage 120
This plugin sounds great! I write and demo with the plugin. I use my real Savage 120 for tracking. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference!!!
R. Pablo Olivares
One of the very best guitar plugins
I am very cautious about plugins and hard to convince but this one, put in the Unison Channel, feels like a real amp. I am big fan of real valve-tube amps and have some in my collection and this plugin sounds great, big and, overall, very realistic.
Since I purchased the different Engl amp emulations, they are my go-to plugins for tracking guitars and now I avoid miking the real ones. Test it, this is a truly great plugin for guitar tracks.P. Mantei
Every tone possible
We all know most of the tone comes from the cabinet and mic choice. This amp has so many combinations that you can get any tone you want
O. Halen
Metal
ENGL is king, but I need to be able to load my own ir´s...
S. Wilkinson
Versatile amp sim
I was really surprised by this one. Much more than just a high gain amp. It's capable of of sparkling cleans, edge of break up, crunchy rhythm's, metal tones and searing leads. Well worth the price of admission.
P. Jerksten
Great amp!
Fantastic amp and plug-in. Would get a 5 star if you could use your own IR’s and if pedals were included.
W. Schurat
Expecting less, getting more
Actually I bought this amp only to gain access to the 50 $ voucher. Originally I was out for the Fuchs Train only. To my knowledge the Engl Savage being more for Metal and such like, which is not so much my cup of tea.
But………. luckily I tried several presets and among them there were some clean amp presets to my total surprise.
And…… these clean settings sound amazing!!
Conclusion. This is not a hi gain amp only. Especially the clean and crunch settings sound even better than the Engl Retro. According to my taste. Total surprise and absolutely no regrets.P. Bartušek
Real sound !
Real sound !
S. Walles
Got Bite!
Love this and the Herbert the most!
n. hatz
Great!
it sound loud and clean! not harshing, very high gain!
G. Balistreri
Excellent !
Excellent !
J. REams
Useful and Practical
This is a good sounding amp model that is practical and easy to use. I usually record electric guitar and bass with my Kemper, but I wanted at least one quality amp model to be able to use in unison mode, and for $50 and some change after the sale and the coupons, I couldn't go wrong.
I am a little put off by some of the 1 star reviews given with the reasoning of the plugin not having a tuner. That indeed would have been a cool feature, but I think giving it such a poor rating based on that is rather spiteful, and forgive me, perhaps even a bit juvenile. I mean how many tuners do each of us probably all have? I am guessing a lot of them. Maybe a 3 or 4 star rating instead, if one feels the need to subtract on this basis?M. Becker
Sehr nahe dran!
Ich benutze seit dem Erscheinen die "Hardwarevariante" 1.0 vom Engl Savage 120 und es ist schon beeindruckend was dieses Plugin leistet. Es macht viel Spass Nachts um 3 Gitarren aufzunehmen und dabei eine Box nach der anderen "reinzutragen".
