MusicMan

That actually worked for me. I tried a few times the other day and never got an email.

Plugin Alliance have a bunch of good plugins and generally hold their own well against the usual competition. Some of their plugins are really good, otherwise definitely more than capable in any mix. Light on CPU (mostly!), much better licensing than lots of others too. Keep in mind with YouTube a lot of it is based off kickbacks and NFR licenses for a lot of content. For sure plenty aren't as well though and people will just use what they like, or what they know. Kirchhoff sounds better to me than ProQ3, DSM V3 is very cool and more unique (although takes a little read/time to work it out), Elyssia Alpha is a very good mid/side transparent compressor and clipper. Lisa is an awesome dynamic mastering EQ. Their channel strips normally compete very well while some of their channel strips are amazing, the Lindell TE-100 is a really nice warm analogy vibe sounding EQ. There's a bunch more, these ones just came to mind right then, so these won't even be my favourites ? I wouldn't base too much on YouTube, just try them out. The majority of them are more then enough for daily use by pros and hobbyists alike. That said, I do see them reasonably often by pros on Youtube, so it just depends on who you watch.

I probably should've added the website to download the free IRs they use as well ? http://www.echothief.com/

Yep, I definitely noticed that as well. Unfiltered Audio ZIP and SpecOps were both in there to start with and now they're more expensive. Anything free it always pays to be quick!

I was looking into that one. You can actually just download all the impulses free from the Echo Thief website too which is easier. I went with Artillery instead in case it has any decent drum samples included. They mention 30GB available to buy only what you like, so I suspect it's limited, or likely doesn't include any. But none of the ones you can get for free had great reviews. I'm not even sure I'll ever install it to find out!

I think you're looking at the subscriptions.

Seems like they're testing the waters and working out what they're worth in an open market with no subscription, or hardware requirement. I suspect there will be some more good discounts to come.

Yes, but in 6 months time when they release Masterdesk Ultra True Peak Extreme Mastering Pro No We're Serious This Time Edition, the current Pro version will be reduced in price and this should then work for that too ?

More hits... or more shi.... ?! ?

Just for another perspective, I would use both of these two plugins differently. True:Balance I would use even more in the mixing stages as if the bass was way out, it would be better to adjust just the bass and the kick in the mix, than to EQ correct over the whole track in mastering. I would balance all of the individual items as well of course, but it might be helpful as a quick check to make sure the foundations are right. Bass is often the hardest to monitor correctly, so that's where this is helpful if that is in the ballpark before you go into your detailed mix and then just use it to periodically check as you're going. What the video is saying to a certain extent is true, in that once the mix is heavily limited/compressed the tonal balance can change, but actually the variations he's pointing out I believe are pretty small when you take in the metering. You can check this out by simply increasing your bass by 6dB and see how much the curve changes (spoiler.. it's not that huge). Those tonal changes he's pointing out at a guess are about 1dB or less. I would simply run the mix through a limiter before looking at the balance. That will tuck some of the louder elements that can affect overall tone in and more closely represent what the final master may sound like. I started doing that a while ago anyway and it's a good check. I use PSP Xenon as it's light on resources and very minimal latency so great for the mixing and production stages. True:Level I would use in the opposite way, in that I would use it predominantly in mastering, but then also occasionally in the mixing phase just to see what breaks up first and how things sound when you're trying to push for competitive levels for that genre. A lot of the things that help achieve of good level of loudness are done in the mix itself. In terms of referencing, I personally like the idea of trying to mix like there will be no master and then aim to get the balances as close to how you want it to sound when released, so I would want to compare unmastered to mastered as well.

I have paid out on them a bit over the years, so I probably deserve it not working ? Not that I had definitely decided I wanted them, but I was interested to see if the discounted pricing worked, as there's no way I would pay full, or even half price for any of them.

Same I've got some great bargains from these guys and no issues.. although I was a little skeptical to start with!

The coupon code doesn't work for me, but I only registered today to have a look..

Auth is iLok.

Nice price! I should really try using this one more.

The video Lars posted is worth a watch and covers those exact points

I was trying to look for release date info, or any announcements the other day on their mastering DAW and there definitely wasn't a lot.. I'm interested to see what it's like as well.

There's a hearty 0% chance I'll be demoing or buying this one. Not really much of a saving and there are better brands and likely better quality delays. Target price on this is $9.99 which is a pretty safe bet, of free with purchase and even then, there's no guarantee I'll grab it .. well free I may still anyway ?

This is actually not half bad for a colourful and in your face chorus. I still prefer TriceraChorus by Eventide and I have a bunch of other Chorus plugins, but I'm still glad I grabbed it. I went through testing some of my Chorus plugins with acoustic guitar and was pleasantly surprised by the stock Cubase Chorus too!

I just bought that in this sale. I've got a couple of other options, but I like how this works and the easy referencing and being able to compare a project I'm working on without having to bounce, like I do with Mastering The Mix Expose 2. True:Level I was going to pass on as I have Smart:Limit and Level is essentially the metering section from that, but in the bundle it doesn't cost much at all and I do like to easy way of selecting reference tracks which isn't available in the limiter. I'll need more time with them to decide how good I really think they are, but sometimes it's good having a few different tools like this as additional checks.

I have both and the Smart:Limit in particular is in a different league than iZotope and has become one of my favourite limiters. Smart: Comp I definitely prefer than iZotope and I prefer the SmartEQ too. The reverb is just different and on par maybe, but very cool features and controls. I haven't used Neoverb enough to say much there. I do really like the exponential reverbs from iZotope though. I've barely used the EntropyEQ, so I should really start using it more to get a feel for it's strengths.

Yeah I've noticed often in these sales at resellers, it pays to check specifically what you're after as they might be the cheapest on some, but not others. I grabbed SmartEQ and the metering bundle which were cheaper overall at Best. I didn't check their bundle though, as I had them all about from the EQ! Great price on the bundle. In the end, I probably wouldn't have spent too much more than the bundle by buying them individually, but I really never expected to want them all! Their EQ and Reverb I had no intention of buying whatsoever until I learnt a bit more about them and tried them. These guys make some very good plugins!

Total cart price at Every = $81.50 Best = $82.66 (but you earn $2.70 in Best Coin). Effective cost $79.96 and I used Best Coin to further reduce the price ? In this instance... Math and saving dollars floats my boat ?

Overall I think Best Service has the edge with being able to use Best Coin and also accumulating some more from buying them too from the ones I was looking at. Both great prices though.

Live at Sonible now too. But the loyalty prices are really just the same as the reseller prices for me..