Chandler Limited has struck an agreement with the Plugin Alliance engineering team Brainworx to licence, develop, market and sell audio plug-ins based on Chandler Limited hardware.

Brainworx is responsible for programming emulations of analogue equipment and developing high-end digital algorithms that are the basis for the products sold through Plugin Alliance. Dirk Ulrich serves as the CEO of both companies: ‘We are pleased to model boutique analogue gear, whether it be guitar amps or studio equipment,’ he says. ‘I’m confident that the Chandler Limited software plug-ins will benefit both companies. We’ll start with the GAV19T guitar amp and matching speaker cabinet, which I believe will be a terrific guitar amp plug-in. From there, we intend to model some of the company’s guitar pedals.’

‘We had been in contact with Wade for about two years before we finally announced our joint cooperation,’ he contines. ‘Wade is very quality-driven regarding his products, which we respect a lot. I feel that the timing is now right for us to start working together, as the GAV19T strikes me as the perfect amp to be modeled. The GAV19T represents a very special approach to designing a fantastic-sounding, great-looking amp and I believe it represents a great choice as a software plug-in. This is most certainly not another clone of a standard design.’

‘Having a plug-in version of the GAV19T guitar amp will open up an entirely new opportunity by making its sound more readily accessible to a wide range of musicians,’ says Chandler Limited’s Wade Goeke.

The Plugin Alliance expects the first results of the collaboration to become available late Q1 or early Q2 2014. Pricing has not yet been determined.