Can BUTTR FX Replace a Real Guitarist? (Honest Review by a Session Player)
I'm a session guitarist. And when BUTTR FX landed in my inbox, my first thought was: there's no way they got this right. Every guitar VST before this has sounded like a robot trying to play soul. But BUTTR FX was built by two Grammy-nominated guitarists and that changes everything. The voicings, the chord variations, the inflections... it actually sounds like someone sat down and played it. So I did what any session guitarist would do. I ran a straight A/B real guitar vs the plugin and let you hear the difference yourself. Then I went deep on the UI, the key mapping system, all three guitar types (electric, steel string & nylon), the built-in effects, and the preset progressions. I also cover the honest limitations because no plugin is perfect and there are things only a real guitarist can do. By the end I answer the question everyone's been asking: if I only had £200 left, would I buy it? 💬 Would YOU use this instead of hiring a session guitarist? Drop it in the comments — I read every one. 🎸 BUTTR FX Official Page → https://www.buttrfx.com/ @ButtrFX 📺 More plugin reviews → @theduststudios 📷 Instagram → @theduststudios ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 First Impressions — Why This One Is Different 00:46 Real Guitar vs BUTTR FX — A/B Comparison 01:32 Reaction After Hearing the A/B Test 01:47 UI Walkthrough & Artist Playing Styles 02:21 The Voicings That Set BUTTR FX Apart 03:05 How a Session Guitarist Would Actually Use This 03:26 Scale Degrees, Free Hand Mode & Key Mapping 05:06 Building Custom Chord Progressions 05:22 Key Lock Mode Explained 06:44 Switching Between Artist Styles 07:21 Electric, Steel String & Nylon Guitar Types 07:54 Preset Progressions for Non-Guitarists 08:55 Built-In Effects: Phaser, Chorus, Tape & More 10:14 Limitations — What BUTTR FX Can't Do 10:36 Final Verdict — Does It Replace a Session Guitarist? #buttrfx #guitarplugin #vstreview #sessionguitarist #musicproduction #guitarvsт #realguitarvsplugin #pluginreview #producertools #homestudio #musicgear #bestguitarvst2025 #theduststudios
I'm a session guitarist. And when BUTTR FX landed in my inbox, my first thought was: there's no way they got this right. Every guitar VST before this has sounded like a robot trying to play soul. But BUTTR FX was built by two Grammy-nominated guitarists and that changes everything. The voicings, the chord variations, the inflections... it actually sounds like someone sat down and played it. So I did what any session guitarist would do. I ran a straight A/B real guitar vs the plugin and let you hear the difference yourself. Then I went deep on the UI, the key mapping system, all three guitar types (electric, steel string & nylon), the built-in effects, and the preset progressions. I also cover the honest limitations because no plugin is perfect and there are things only a real guitarist can do. By the end I answer the question everyone's been asking: if I only had £200 left, would I buy it? 💬 Would YOU use this instead of hiring a session guitarist? Drop it in the comments — I read every one. 🎸 BUTTR FX Official Page → https://www.buttrfx.com/ @ButtrFX 📺 More plugin reviews → @theduststudios 📷 Instagram → @theduststudios ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 First Impressions — Why This One Is Different 00:46 Real Guitar vs BUTTR FX — A/B Comparison 01:32 Reaction After Hearing the A/B Test 01:47 UI Walkthrough & Artist Playing Styles 02:21 The Voicings That Set BUTTR FX Apart 03:05 How a Session Guitarist Would Actually Use This 03:26 Scale Degrees, Free Hand Mode & Key Mapping 05:06 Building Custom Chord Progressions 05:22 Key Lock Mode Explained 06:44 Switching Between Artist Styles 07:21 Electric, Steel String & Nylon Guitar Types 07:54 Preset Progressions for Non-Guitarists 08:55 Built-In Effects: Phaser, Chorus, Tape & More 10:14 Limitations — What BUTTR FX Can't Do 10:36 Final Verdict — Does It Replace a Session Guitarist? #buttrfx #guitarplugin #vstreview #sessionguitarist #musicproduction #guitarvsт #realguitarvsplugin #pluginreview #producertools #homestudio #musicgear #bestguitarvst2025 #theduststudios