After more than a year of silence, here’s another Free Sample Shootout article on BPB! This time I’ve tried to include all notable guitar and bass guitar sample libraries available for free download and use. Enjoy!

Part 1 – Free Guitar Samples

Free acoustic and electric guitar samples. Available in a variety of sample formats, but most of the listed packs also include individual WAV samples.

Part 2 – Free Bass Guitar Samples

Free acoustic and electric bass guitar samples, again available as WAV files and formated for various software samplers.

Bonus – Free Guitar And Bass Guitar VSTi Plugins

Until I make a separate BPB Freeware Studio entry, here’s a list of the best freeware VSTi plugins featuring guitar and/or bass guitar sounds.

Independence Free by Yellow Tools – Independence Free comes with a useful set of nylon guitar and electric bass samples.

– Independence Free comes with a useful set of nylon guitar and electric bass samples. Kontakt Player by Native Instruments – The Factory Selection for Kontakt Player features a nice set of electric and upright bass samples.

– The Factory Selection for Kontakt Player features a nice set of electric and upright bass samples. LP SG Custom by chokehold – A VSTi plugin version of the guitar sample library which is included in the list above. The samples were provided by Kriminal and chokehold has turned them into a neat little virtual instrument for Windows.

– A VSTi plugin version of the guitar sample library which is included in the list above. The samples were provided by Kriminal and chokehold has turned them into a neat little virtual instrument for Windows. Proteus VX by E-MU Systems – This free plugin features all sorts of guitar and bass sounds. It acts a bit quirky on some machines, but it’s certainly worth checking out.

– This free plugin features all sorts of guitar and bass sounds. It acts a bit quirky on some machines, but it’s certainly worth checking out. SampleTank Free by IK Multimedia – The free version of SampleTank includes 500MB of free samples including some pretty good guitar and bass sounds.

– The free version of SampleTank includes 500MB of free samples including some pretty good guitar and bass sounds. Spicy Guitar by Keolab – Once a commercial plugin, Spicy guitar is a very nice sounding acoustic guitar simulation plugin. Available both for Windows and Mac!

– Once a commercial plugin, Spicy guitar is a very nice sounding acoustic guitar simulation plugin. Available both for Windows and Mac! Suburban Guitarist Beta by Gregjazz – A rather nice sounding freeware guitar VSTi.

– A rather nice sounding freeware guitar VSTi. VB-1 by Steinberg – A simple plugin dedicated to bass guitar sounds, recently re-released as freeware.

And that’s all for this edition of Free Sample Shootout. I’m a bit out of ideas for this section, so if you’d like me to do another shootout for a specific type of samples, please leave a note in the comments section below.

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Finally, many thanks to BPB reader Greg for suggesting Markus Fiedler’s free samples!