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They seem to be targeting the upper end of the market for now. Less presence, no resellers, fewer discounts. It's hard to blame them, as their product line (including the Quad Cortex) is pretty boutique (top-notch interface and sound, distinct flavor). They might come across as expensive to your pocket (and mine!), but I feel they're still good value, compared to the competition. It's nice to be able to grab one, when the time is right. Kind of like snatching a dream Eventide plugin on a good sale. 🙂

They'll probably have another BF sale or a group buy sale, if you can't get it now. Half-price it's good value for what it does, but I hear you, I did stare for a long couple of minutes at the checkout screen before I hit the payment button, trying to resist it. 😶

Just got it. I've been waiting patiently for a Plini sale for a while now

Good value, especially with a coupon - but worth noting that Black Rooster's VLA bundle, with VLA-FET, VLA-2A, VLA-3A, is (still) on sale on their homepage for $38.

The Music Production Bundle is $251 at jrrshop. Pretty great value for all it contains. But if you don't need RX7 Standard or can do with RX7 Elements (which I think is free now on Pluginboutique with any purchase), you could get the Tonal Balance bundle at about $125 and get whatever you need from the Exponential Audio reverbs separately (they've been on sale a lot, with current sales at Pluginboutique and Audiodeluxe). I was also tempted by the MPP, but I have Acon's Digital Restoration 2 suite + RX7 Elements and some of the EA reverbs. I had been waiting for a good Izotope offer to get O9 and Neutron 3 advanced, and the Tonal Balance bundle offer was just too good not to get it.

You can load the various modules from INSIDE Ozone and Neutron as individual plugins. Say, you want just an EQ, or compressor. You need the advanced version for this, with the standard license you'll load the full Ozone or Neutron, then activate/deactivate whatever module you need from them.

I'd love to have it if it's still available. Thanks!

A buddy of mine successfully installed the "iZotope Tonal Balance Bundle Upgrade from any Ozone or Neutron Standard/Advanced", having owned only Ozone Elements. So the upgrade might actually be: (any Ozone) OR (Neutron standard/advanced). I have no idea if this was a fluke or some error, so definitely check with Izotope or JRR, but this suggests that you could upgrade from Ozone Elements to the Tonal Balance Bundle for $125! Awesome deal.

It might be worth noting that the entire collection is $154 at everyplugin

They might have changed this, but a few months ago I unexpectedly got a nice freebie after a purchase. In my case, the retail value of the plugin I bought was enough to get me the freebie (similar type of promo to this one), even though I paid (much) less for it, as it was on sale.

That's what I use (48 kHz, 256/5.3ms). I think it might not like my legacy MOTU drivers. It's the only standalone amp sim that I can't run though, so there's that. The UI is terrible (Audio Assault's Duality, probably from the same team, is even worse). Kinda' makes Neural DSP's stuff feel cheap in comparison

I can't get it to work in standalone. Just like the Audio Assault bass plugin I bought a few days ago, which has the same audio settings UI. They both work fine in Reaper.

Tried it, too. To my ears, it's quite responsive, cleans/crunch are decent, effects so-so. You can tell the same people are behind Audio Assault and Mercuriall: UI is pretty terrible, even the bugs are the same! To me, it feels way unpolished and overpriced, but good enough that it might be getting somewhere, someday. Disclaimer: I don't take into account heavy/metal sounds here, because I never know how to evaluate them. As a blues/(soft) rock guitarist and to the despair of my shredding brethren, I suffer from a persistent bias in that I believe heavy distortion is the big equalizer, and I can take any decent high-gain amp sim (say, a Nembrini), feed it some nice IRs and maybe tweak it with a good EQ/compressor, and make it sound like any other 'great' high-gain amp sim

If you apply a coupon, the 'apply' button should update to 'cancel coupon'. Yep, $119 is what I paid for it, but I was about to pay $126 when I came across the new coupon on reddit. Still a great deal. Edit: great that you got it working.

Bummer. I know I canceled the voucher that was added by default, and added NewPassword to make it work, maybe try that. Other than that, check with the man. In my case, the discount was definitely not applied by default (I bought something cheap from them the previous day, with the regular group/forum voucher).

Agreed, VPRE-73 and the Ash bundle at less than $20 total, are a steal and distinguished guests on my guitar tracks.

I can confirm it works, I used it for an Izotope upgrade bundle. Didn't know about the message, but grabbed the code from reddit and it does indeed only work once, so you might as well use it for a pricier purchase, if you had one planned.

Upgrade from any standard/advanced Ozone or Neutron at jrrshop: Tonal Balance Bundle: $125 Production Suite 3: $251 Best upgrade offer I've seen so far. Based on the deadline from Izotope's loyalty offers, these seem to run until August 31.

I have Ozone 8 standard as well. $133 for the tonal balance bundle is the cheapest it's ever been - I'm pretty sure about that, as I've been watching the sales. The bad news is that there seems to be a geographic restriction on this particular upgrade (not available to customers in the EU maybe?), on audiodeluxe.

I'll take it if you don't need it. Maybe some interesting sale will come up later in the month.

Yeah, that's the question, whether you'd keep getting the monthly loyalty ones. Say you get the yearly plan; with the $249 voucher during one of their mega sales, you might be able to pick up 8 plugins that you really like. With the monthly loyalty vouchers on top, used wisely and selectively, you could get a total of 12-14 of your favorite plugins from PA in one year for about $300 ($199 for the yearly plan + $100 to spend on sales, with the monthly loyalty vouchers). If you take into account that you'd also have one year access to all of their plugins (so you'd also be more likely to pick up only those that you really like/need), that's an interesting deal.

My highly subjective take is that the world of amp sims has matured enough that we are looking, by now, for both quality AND character, to make us happy about a new amp sim. And in truth, I’m sort of on the fence about Nembrini in this regard, even though I have several of his plugins and I generally like them. That’s why I was writing earlier that I thought this should be a free upgrade. The quality is there, his plugins are transparent, responsive, cleans are solid, saturation is ok. I’m not quite sold on the character though. I was testing his plugins for a solo; preamp section only, clean/crunch, with custom IR’s, a nice compressor and spring reverb, etc. They all sound good. But I found that PA’s Chandler has a lot more character and just sounds better in the mix in this scenario. Even IK’s Orange will get your more interesting sounds, although it’s not superior in quality. And for creamy cleans, S-Gear’s Wayfarer still rules the roost. Quality is the new standard; character should already be an explicit goal for new amp sims, IMHO. Maybe Nembrini should steal a few pages from Neural DSP’s book.

Does PA send out monthly vouchers to people who are subscribed to a a yearly plan, too? That would make it interesting.

This was a good month! The plugin gods protected us, for the most part, from irresistible but expensive offers. My planned holiday in Greece, in September, requires them to be vigilant one more month 😇

Sounds great! Should've been a free upgrade though, me thinks.