FYI, Plugin Alliance is doing a sale on their Green Screamer (Tube Screamer overdrive emulation), often called bx_greenscreamer or bx_screamer. It was $50, on sale for $10 thru April 3. Try the free demo first if you want to check it out.

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/bx_greenscreamer.html

If you're looking for VST Tube Screamer pedals, there's also pretty good free stuff available (don't get me wrong, I like the Plugin Alliance stuff and I own all their stomp plugins):

Mercuriall produce great free stomp plugins - beside their flavor of the TS there's also the "Greed Smasher" (Grid Slammer clone) and a Boss Metal Zone VST: mercuriall.com/cms/details_freestuff

Igor Nembrini (formerly with brainworx) also offers a free TS clone in his "free stuff" section: www.nembriniaudio.com/collections/free

Have fun!

Torsten

The more screamers the merrier!

bx screamer is my fav for natural tone havent found another plug that tops it

Audiority's Green Reaper is well worth checking out. Sounds great and has a whole set of 'mods' that can be applied - the Wampler mod sounds particularly good.

Don't forget "the Scream"
cytomic.com/scream
This one is really good...

Somebody needs to do a Scream Off!
Speaking of which....
I just found this batch of overviews of these and more (eleven of 'em) over at Honest Amp Sim Reviews:
honestampsimreviews.com/2019/01/25/quick-guide-tubescreamers/

ivygrace wrote:

bx screamer is my fav for natural tone havent found another plug that tops it

Guess who built the bx_screamer? Yup: Igor Nembrini - I guess the free Nembrini Audio TS version shouldn't be too far off...

Here's another one that just came out
fuseaudiolabs.com/#/pages/product?id=301007283
It's a Tube Screamer AND a Fuzz Face
It sounds pretty good, and it's cheap. You can configure TS -> FF, FF -> TS or parallel.

jbraner wrote:

Here's another one that just came out
fuseaudiolabs.com/#/pages/product?id=301007283
It's a Tube Screamer AND a Fuzz Face
It sounds pretty good, and it's cheap. You can configure TS -> FF, FF -> TS or parallel.

Or just TS, or just FF. I don't need another TS, but the FF sounds legit.

A new one from Nembrini Audio
www.nembriniaudio.com/products/clon-mino...ransparent-overdrive

Lots of Klon plugins this year. I'm anxious to hear Nembrini's take.

It sounds good in front of the Stealer. I never had a Klon though

I have a Klon pedal and just put this plugin against it and have to admit that I'm impressed. It definitely captures the character of the pedal. There are differences, but nothing drastic. And the price is right!