Blue Cat's Re-Guitar Crossgrade from Guitar Rig

Blue Cat's Re-Guitar is a dedicated guitar tone modeling plugin that addresses a specific production need: the ability to radically alter or completely reimagine electric and acoustic guitar characters after recording. Rather than functioning as a general amp simulator, Re-Guitar focuses exclusively on pickup emulation and body resonance modeling, making it an efficient tool for tonal reshaping within a mix context.

The plugin's core strength lies in its pickup simulation engine, which includes a comprehensive library of single coil variants (vintage, modern, active configurations), humbuckers across multiple voicings, and piezo models. Each pickup type behaves with reasonable accuracy relative to its real-world counterpart, responding to gain and brightness adjustments in musically intuitive ways. The hollow body simulator adds dimension to thin recordings, while the acoustic guitar emulations extend functionality beyond electric sources. Users can generate custom pickup models, though this requires understanding of the underlying parameters.

Re-Guitar occupies a specific niche between lightweight tonal processors and full amp modeling suites like Guitar Rig. It excels at corrective work - salvaging poorly mic'd recordings, experimenting with pickup swaps during mixing, or adding tonal variety to already-recorded parts without the CPU overhead of comprehensive amp modeling. The automation-friendly tone and volume controls enable dynamic tonal movement across phrases.

This crossgrade path targets existing Guitar Rig users seeking a complementary tool rather than a replacement. For recording engineers and producers working primarily with guitars already tracked, Re-Guitar provides focused sonic flexibility with minimal latency and a straightforward workflow. Its value depends largely on how frequently you need to alter recorded guitar character in the mix environment.