Shreddage 3 Electro Sitar
A psychedelic icon from the '60s and '70s that plays like a guitar and sounds like a dream.
$149
Audio Demos
- Tangle Deep - Dungeon zircon
- Hooked On A Feeling Andrew Aversa
- Evening Commute Andrew Aversa
- Sympathy For Strings Tremendouz
- Desert Brawl DanFourts
- Echoes of the Red Dunes Andreas Martin Wimmer
- Sympathy For Strings (Library Only) Tremendouz
- Desert Brawl (Library Only) DanFourts
- Echoes of the Red Dunes (Library Only) Andreas Martin Wimmer
Overview
The signature sound of the psychedelic era is now available in the powerful Shreddage 3 engine! Shreddage 3 Electro Sitar brings you an instrument that has inspired musicians across genres for decades, with the distinctive buzzy tone and resonance of an Indian sitar and the playability of a six-string electric guitar. The unique tone comes from a carefully designed bridge that the strings rest on to create the signature sitar ‘buzz’ as well as a set of harp drone strings that can resonate with the main strings or be plucked individually. Warm, intense, and best for leads and melodies.
Looking for the traditional Indian instrument? Check out Sitar Nation.
Product Info
Over 31,000 pristine 24-bit samples
Incredible care was taken to capture every nuance of the instrument, with and without additional resonance. Over 17GB (uncompressed) of meticulously sampled audio.
6 guitar strings, 15 resonating harp strings
Obsessively recorded with the full playability of a six-string guitar, plus a set of distinctive harp strings that can be plucked separately, used for sympathetic resonance, or left off, as needed.
All crucial articulations
Picked sustains, legatos, staccatos, harmonics, pitched and unpitched releases, palm mutes, chokes, powerchords, and assorted fx.
Realistic performances through meticulous sampling
Every string sampled from open up to the highest fret with up to 4x round robins per note and 3 dynamic layers.
38 production-ready tone snapshots
Ideal for that buzzy sitar sound right out of the box, plus a variety of snapshots to inspire your work.
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
20GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid-state drive recommended.
6GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments and use larger projects.
Apple M1, Intel i5 or equivalent CPU
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.
Kontakt Player 7.6+
This instrument will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.15, 11 or 12+.
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12+.
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
Instrument Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
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!
Mark Portmann
(Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones)
"[ISW]'s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire."
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
"Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit."
In the 1960s, many British and American musicians looked for inspiration outside of standard rock instrumentation and found it in musical traditions elsewhere in the world. In particular, they fell in love with the distinctive tone and musicality of the beautiful yet complicated Indian sitar. While some, like the inimitable George Harrison, devoted themselves to learning traditional sitar, others shied away from that considerable challenge. Western designers looked for a more guitarist-friendly alternative and developed a new instrument: the “electric sitar,” an adapted electric guitar that gave rock musicians a buzzy sitar-like sound in a form they could more easily play.
Generations of musicians have featured the electric sitar in their music — as wide-reaching as Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Redbone, Tom Petty, Yes, The Mission, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Van Halen, Lenny Kravitz, Alice in Chains, and Metallica. You can hear it cutting clearly through the mix in classic rock, soul, R&B, jazz, fusion, Motown, and even metal.
For Shreddage 3 Electro Sitar, we chose an electric sitar based on an iconic 1960s design, right down to the distinctive lava-like crackle colorway of the earliest models. Of course we recorded it with our usual obsessive attention to detail, full coverage of essential articulations, and generous round robins. This is no ordinary electric guitar, however, and we knew we had to absolutely nail the tone. When our initial tests weren’t buzzy enough, we tried again and again until we were fully satisfied with the sound. We think you’ll agree the sound has been worth the effort.
The chambered construction of the instrument gives it natural resonance. High notes soar with absolute clarity; the low-end is warm and open, and the mids are sharp and searing. The electric sitar’s characteristic sound comes from two main components: a unique buzz bridge and a set of resonating harp strings that emulate the sympathetic strings of a traditional sitar. A fun bonus of this being a virtual electric sitar — you’ll never have to worry about using a harp wrench to tune the finicky sympathetic strings!
Choose between the bridge pickup (a brighter, thinner tone) and the neck pickup (with more weight and roundness), or blend the two. Separately, you can either turn the harp pickup on and activate the sympathetic strings so they resonate as you play, or you can turn it off and stick to the distinctive buzzy sound of the bridge or neck pickups. You can also pluck the harp strings separately, which many live performers over the years have chosen to do.
If you can play a (virtual) electric guitar, you can play Shreddage 3 Electro Sitar, but no ordinary guitar will sound like this!
Like the rest of the Shreddage 3 series, Shreddage 3 Electro Sitar features a full range of guitar articulations. Write for it the same way you’d write for an electric guitar and you will find it functionally familiar, just with a unique sound.
However, what’s really special about this is the harp strings. In addition to using the harp pickup to add resonance to your tone, you can also pluck these strings individually as an articulation and they will ring out fully with beautiful clarity.
Console is our 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 signals, with custom inserts on each if you’d like.
Download the Console manual here to learn more!
Reviews
Shreddage 3 Series – Sample Library Review
“Impact Soundworks have blown the lid off my DAW with Shreddage 3. This is the electric guitar library I have long been looking for. Whether you want a rocking rhythm guitarist, a wailing, screaming guitar soloist, or simply a tool for writing your own rhythm and solo guitar parts, Shreddage 3 fits the bill. You can easily write a full rock track with Shreddage 3 that sounds authentic and believable. It’s hard to ask for much more than that.”
Raborn Johnson (Sample Library Review)