Shreddage 3 Archtop
Virtuosic, custom model 6-string electric guitar that excels with clean tones.
$149
Audio Demos
- The King and His Blues Brad Jerkins 2:23
- Open Road Epilogue Ian Dorsch 2:11
- Salford Streets Henning Nugel 1:18
- Take Five Paul Desmond (arr. Andrew Aversa) 1:25
- Reflections Koke Núñez Gómez 4:00
- We Are All Moons Blake Ewing 1:02
- Mr. Sandman Pat Ballard (arr. Andrew Aversa) 1:30
- Nuages Study (with Acoustic Guitar backing) Gerard Montalat 1:35
- Watercolours Jason Cullimore 1:47
- Melancholia Dmitry Selipanov 3:34
- Air Andrew Aversa 1:13
- My Favorite Things Richard Rodgers (arr. Andrew Aversa) 0:37
- Wa Are All Moons (No Vox) Blake Ewing 1:02
- Open Road Epilogue (Naked) Ian Dorsch 2:11
Overview
Shreddage 3 Archtop (an upgraded Archtop: Hollowbody Electric Guitar) is a supremely versatile hollowbody 6-string electric guitar with a clear, warm tone and incredible realism. It’s perfectly suited for both clean and amped playing and shines in jazz, blues, R&B, funk, pop & more.
Product Info
Over 20,000 pristine 24-bit samples
Recorded through two separate pickup positions (neck and bridge) DI, so you can make your own tone.
6 string hollowbody guitar
Smooth, mellow sound ideal for jazz, blues, funk, and pop; great even with no amp at all!
All crucial lead and rhythm articulations
Sustains, powerchords, palm mutes, staccatos, harmonics, pinch harmonics, tapping, tremolo, slides, fingered vibrato, FX, hammer-on, pull-off, rakes, and chokes.
Realistic performances through meticulous sampling
Every string sampled from open up to the highest fret with up to 4x down/4x up strokes per note, 4 dynamic layers, and 4 palm mute layers.
31 production-ready tone snapshots
From hi-gain amped options to clean, ambient playing.
Features
Cutting edge virtual guitarist engine
Beautiful, wide UI
Poly input feature for realistic chords
Total articulation control technology
Console FX rack and mixer
Requirements
6GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
6GB RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Apple M1, Intel i5 or equivalent CPU
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.
Kontakt Player 6.7
This library will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher.
Tutorials
Walkthrough (Legacy)
Shreddage 3 Upgrade Trailer
Shreddage 3 Upgrade Overview
S3 Masterclass Part 1
S3 Masterclass Part 2
"The King and His Blues" Walkthrough (Legacy)
Jazz Comping with Shreddage 3 Archtop (Tutorial)
Featured Artists & Composers
Christopher Gordon
Ladies in Black, Mao's Last Dancer, Salem's Lot, Master and Commander
"Impact Soundworks' range of guitars and fretted instruments sound amazing and are crafted and nuanced with expert detail. Intuitively set up to get straight to composing. And I have a real soft spot for the juicy, screaming Shreddage 3 Hydra!"
Neal Acree
World of WarCraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Overwatch
"Impact Soundworks has some of the most creative and innovative libraries out there. From world instruments to the insanely deep sampled Shreddage guitar series the Impact catalog is full of must-haves and unexpected and inspiring surprises. Highly recommended!
Richard Jacques
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
"I'm a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It's so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments... from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further."
Shreddage 3 Archtop is an upgrade of our incredibly popular Archtop: Hollowbody Electric Guitar, expanded and updated to the Shreddage 3.5 engine! The original instrument, featuring a six-string Sadowsky Jim Hall model with dual pickups, was favored by thousands of composers, producers, and bands for its playability and smooth tone. Now, you can enjoy these incredible samples with even better performance playback, strumming, articulation mapping, and tone options!
Shreddage 3 Archtop was performed by master session musician Josh Workman, who brought detail and nuance to every note. Each sample was cleanly recorded DI through a true analog signal chain for maximum warmth, making this guitar equally usable in both amped and clean contexts. While it is more than capable of hi-gain styles, Shreddage 3 Archtop truly excels with cleaner tones and genres like jazz, fusion, pop, alt-rock, blues, funk, and R&B. Its mellow tone and absolute realism (thanks to a generous number of round robins) make this a standout guitar that absolutely deserves to be featured in solos and leads at the heart of your tracks.
Console is our new mixer, modular effects rack, and pedal board, designed to give you full control over your virtual guitar tone. Unlike our previous FX racks, which were limited to a small amount of preset modules, Console gives you 30 effects modules to choose from!
These include multiple EQs (digital and analog-style), compressors, spatial FX, modulation FX, amps, distortion pedals, reverbs, and a selection of over 30 custom cabinet IRs recorded just for Shreddage 3! These cabs cover all the most important sounds you would want, with both dynamic & condenser mics in multiple positions plus a ribbon mic for certain models.
Using Console, you can easily save and load FX chains or presets between projects or even different Shreddage 3 products. It also allows you to mix and blend between guitar pickups, with custom inserts on each if you’d like.
Our array of articulations have you covered for a full, realistic performance and include sustains, with hammer-ons and pull-offs when appropriate; mutes; staccato; power chord sustains, mutes, and staccato; natural, artificial, and pinch harmonics; chokes; tremolo; tapping; rakes; legato slides and power chord slides; pitched, power chord pitched, and unpitched releases; and FX. Articulations are easy to adjust and remap with the TACT 3.0 articulation system, and NKS is supported for more parameters.
Shreddage 3 Archtop includes an updated version of TACT allowing you to customize how all articulations are mapped and triggered! Everyone has their own preferences for how to perform or write for virtual guitar, and with TACT you can create the perfect setup for your DAW.
Reviews
Archtop – Computer Music
“The big sound of the hollowbody electric is at its best taking centre stage. Archtop captures this perfectly and is the sort of sampled guitar you could happily ‘feature’ in a track rather than hide in the mix. It’s beautifully presented, and its pristine DI sound serves as a fantastic foundation for a huge range of tones… A fabulous-sounding guitar captured to near-perfection with articulations and noises for supreme realism of performance.”
CM Reviews (Computer Music)
Archtop – Film and Game Composers
“Its lineage and pedigree aside, ISW simply know how to capture an electric guitar and in what manner it needs to translate for non guitar people, and those on a deadline not keen on hours of tuition. I mean seriously, for some libraries you spend so much time, it makes you wonder if it was more practical just learning the damn thing! Im [sic] not shocked that ISW pulled it off going by Shreddage.”
Russell Bell (Film and Game Composers)
Archtop – Sound On Sound
“Sound wise, Archtop is impressive too. Not only does it sound very real (thanks in part to its use of eight round‑robin variations per articulation), but it also has a lovely mellow tone which still retains enough presence to cut through in a mix […] With a little practice, [users] should be able to fabricate very convincing and impressive guitar solos and chord‑based riffs to suit a great number of their compositions.”
Tom Flint (Sound On Sound)