We tested Guitar Mate on several guitar sample libraries with much success. You will find that each library is different. Some may be good for certain styles of music while other work for other styles. Understand one thing, sample libraries do not sound great on their own. This is an odd but true fact. think about it this way. If a sample library created a library that was amazing we would all stand up and say, this is great I need this. You might say well isn’t that what they want? Isn’t that what I want? Well the answer is yes and no.
Yes they want you to buy their library. Yes you want great sounds but do you really want the library to supply that to you?
Remember that stage after you are done recording called mixing? of course you do. Mixing is the art of making all the recorded sound sources in several track sound good together, as one cohesive sonic sound, the mix. So what are we saying? It is not about one instrument sounding great on it’s own but about all the recorded instruments sounding great together, right.
An acoustic guitar recorded in a great studio by a great engineer is going to sound good, but that guitar is still going to go through some processing, compression, eq, reverb, etc. doing the final mix stage. That good sound then becomes the great sound needed for the song. Remember, a sound may sound good in the finish track but not so good when soloed because the mix engineered had to make room for the other instruments.
So be aware of this with the plugin you choose. It make not be the greatest by itself but sound great in the mix.