fitzroy

2 hours ago, Mesh said:

Interestingly, I  only have used it in standalone mode. The only issue I have is the gui is a bit too big ('medium' is the smallest setting) and it takes up the whole screen. Other than that, it works fine (sample rate is 48Hz and buffer size 256  with   5.3 ms)

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

43 minutes ago, Mesh said:

Which bugs did you run into Fitz?

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 

5 minutes ago, Christian Jones said:

How do you cancel the default voucher? I was looking to do that actually but I can't see anywhere where that can be done. Anyway the default code takes it down from $149 to $126.65, but it would be $119.20 if that 20% off code worked on it 

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. 

1 hour ago, Christian Jones said:

NewPassword code not working for me on Izotope Neutron 3 Advanced crossgrade 

 

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. 

1 hour ago, Vernon Barnes said:

Looks like the tonal balance bundle might be the most cost effective way of upgrading my Òzone 8 standard to Ozone 9 advanced. I shall have to investigate further.

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. 

7 minutes ago, LAGinz said:

Anyone want my $50 voucher?

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

4 minutes ago, antler said:

I've read that they send you a single-use $249 voucher; not sure about the monthly loyalty ones.

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. 

1 hour ago, Piotr said:

So I am grateful to them and waiting patiently till I will be again in 25$ voucher zone or cured from GAS 

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. 

2 minutes ago, Zo said:

Im talking ozone 7 advanced to ozone 9 advanced ar 99 specifically  , did ya seen some better ?

 

thks

I'm not sure if there was an Ozone 9 Advanced sale at $99 (so $87 at the resellers I mentioned) from anything Izotope. Larry might remember that. We are splitting hairs here though, if you need Ozone 9 Advanced, $99 seems like a good deal from 7 advanced (there seems to be somewhat of an agreement among users that Ozone 8 was a big step forward, so 7 to 9 should be a significant upgrade). 

Also, some sales have the upgrade path from anything Izotope, including the Elements series. Worth keeping in mind if you have a standard version (I have Ozone 8 standard), as you could sell that, making it an even better deal. 

1 minute ago, Zo said:

Better than 99 $ ?

 

$99 for Ozone/Neutron and $199 for the Tonal Balance bundle, but with the usual jrrshop/audiodeluxe discounts on top. If I remember well, discounted price was $87 for the Ozone, Neutron, RX7 upgrade/crossgrade, and $167 for the bundle. 

There were better upgrade/crossgrade deals earlier in the year for Ozone, Neutron and RX 7. Also for the Tonal Control bundle. I'd expect them to be back, unless Ozone 10 is just around the corner. 

For $7, not bad at all. Some annoying UI issues which I hope they'll fix soon:

- clicking on the presets dropdown header pops up the save preset window, instead of activating the dropdown, as it should

- the presets dropdown should close if clicking outside of it, or on the header, not when a preset is selected 

I see it at $49.99. In fact, everything else seems to be on sale, apart from this one. Was it like a 3 hour sale, or does it require a discount code? 

Edit: I see it now, full price on top of the page, discounted on the bottom.

57 minutes ago, Mr. Torture said:

Completely understand what you are saying. Maybe I just don't have the type of brain needed to sit and practice the same scale run or arpeggio 17 hours a day like a lot of these kids do. I'm not trying to win any contests, but being able to do those things certainly opens more doors, even if it's a cover band. 

Over the past few years I have lost a lot of interest, mainly because my generation of over the top music is long gone and guitar rock in general is dying, most people today prefer to go out for a hamburger and be home by 8:30. Perhaps it is time to move on, or at least not watch You Tube anymore. I seem to get more enjoyment watching Dr. Who reruns lately.

Try to figure out what, if anything, brings you real joy in having a guitar, if you take everything else out of the picture (how good you really are, how good others are, what's trendy, what's not, youtube, you get the idea). Maybe it's playing/learning certain tunes. Maybe it's home recording. Maybe it's owning a nice guitar and just staring at it. Maybe it's rediscovering old friendships or building new ones with others who play. Whatever it is, that's what you should do. And if you can't come up with anything, yeah, don't waste your time and don't stress over it, it's not worth it, just move on. 

They're doing this AGAIN? ? Surely everyone who downloaded the trial and wanted it discounted bought it the first time around. This is just a repeat F U to everyone else. 

On 7/21/2020 at 3:24 PM, Mr. Torture said:

I've been playing on and off for many years, I am not a bad player and I have some skill but I feel I will never get to the level as some I have seen on You Tube. There are young people out there that just smoke what I can do, the entire process of learning and developing that much skill seems daunting, especially at my age.

You Tube has been a double edged sword for me. Great to learn about different things, but really humiliating when I see kids half my age playing stuff that would take me decades to learn. It makes you wanna quit all together. 

Just rambling some thoughts on a Tuesday morning, feel free to add your .02

 

I used to teach guitar and (easily) the most frustrating thing I experienced with my students was exactly this attitude.

“I’ve been practicing hard for weeks/months/years now, and I feel I’m nowhere nearer to be able to play like you / How many hours/weeks/months do I need to practice to play that particular song the way you do? /I know I’ve made significant progress, but it all seems so little compared to others”

To me, this is getting it all wrong. Music is supposed to make you happy, it’s not a damn chore. If you can’t find the joy in playing the guitar (or any other instrument, for that matter), whatever your level and your audience, you need a full reset and a new approach. Or a different hobby. Life is too short to be chasing rankings, unless your explicit goal in playing the guitar is to win silly shredding competitions.

I watched that video and I suddenly feel ready for the next Spitfire scoring competition.