MusicMan

That's a really great price. I almost thought it was a pricing mistake at first ? Have been reading some interesting things about phase issues that sound a bit concerning. https://community.futureaudioworkshop.com/t/sublab-potential-phase-issue/1016/19

That certainly does explain some things up until now ?

Yesterday was like the old days for PA, but better! I hope they sold lots as well as a reward and keep it up ?

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You're right, it does say free for a limited time. I wonder if The form still works to get it for free ? https://apogeedigital.com/products/plugins/soft-limit

Isn't that always free though? Or was it just free initially? I have it, but seem to be one of the few people that don't particularly like the sound of it!

I don't think I've ever tried this one! What are your thoughts on it?

The way it works is that the designer has two streams of reverbs (Phoenix, Nimbus, Stratos) and (R2, R4, Symphony), one set is transparent, the other is more coloured /character reverb. So R4 is newer than R2 and Stratos is newer again, expanded and I think most seem to include the main presets of the previous version. So you probably don't need all of them, just the latest one. In saying that, sometimes you might prefer the interface and given the older versions are much cheaper it doesn't hurt to pick them up anyway. I personally wouldn't pay full price for any of them. Neoverb sits outside of those streams and is a completely different approach really and has interesting controls for blending between plate, hall, spring, or something like that. Exponential reverbs definitely sound good to me. Neoverb I need to spend more time with to say. It didn't grab me as much at first, but it's different to dial in so I probably need to get used to it. I expect it will be half decent at minimum though ?

That's what I got as a freebie as well. I was just about to pull the trigger on one of the other bass amps and then demoed B-15N and it was an instabuy. Damn that thing sounds good! The others were good options too, but there was just something about that tone and also how it sounded when driving the gain sold me on it ?

I would say no personally. I do own it, but it doesn't see much use. The bx_digital V3 on the other hand I love and would always use that EQ in preference. I guess if I didn't have that, then the Hybrid might be OK, but I'd rate that Opto compressor higher out of my other compressors than what I would BX Hybrid in all my EQs.

Another vote for BX Opto as well. Highly underrated compressor and I'm sure if they released it with a flashy GUI then people would rave about it. Can be super transparent and sounds great. Bass Mint would be the other choice. Quite versatile for shaping bass and has some nice options for saturation, synthesis, harmonics, etc. I didn't rate delay 2500, but I might give it another shot at some stage. The other two options I mentioned are way better though.

I tried that as well ? I may have even used the previous voucher, but adding another plugin less than the $29 screwed up all the combos!

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Given it states demo as opposed to free/freebie, do you happen to know if it's royalty free to use? I have seen quite a few things where demo versions aren't allowed to be used commercially and it only states royalty free on the product page for the full kit. I know they're drums and many people won't care and will just use them, but I try and abide by that side of things anyway. Hopefully they are, as I didn't mind some of the sounds in there when I tried them.

That was indeed quite the short track ?

That's a good point about what you're looking for and also a good pickup on the amps. When PA forgot how to do vouchers, I ended up getting a stack of guitar sims for about $10 or less each from a couple of other Devs instead, so now I really don't have much appetite for any more.. at least for now ? Even now they've dropped the $25 voucher I'm still struggling to be inspired too. There's a couple of things I would've snapped up at today's prices previously, but I also bought alternatives now for them too! So while PA was forgetting how to reward loyalty, I've kind of forgotten how to buy anything from PA ?

I seem to recall trying their free FM synth and being quite pleasantly surprised by it. Might have to consider this one.

I always knew the vouchers would make a return visit ? It's all supply and demand.. and while they would've got greater exposure with Soundwide, they lost a lot of regulars. I'll wait this round out and wait to see if they return with the $20 voucher down the track. It's a good sign that there's still hope they might get back on track though.

This one seems to be getting some good reviews recently, although I've learnt to sceptical and only pay a minimum amount of attention to praise in social media and other sources unless I know and trust the person's tastes and ethics. I wonder how many people compare Fabfilter ProQ3 in zero latency mode against the Kirchhoff and think Kirchhoff is better too. I generally prefer the natural phase mode in ProQ3 more. Also with Linear mode I wonder if everyone is trying different quality settings etc. I know many will be, but I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few A->B with the default settings. I do also wonder how much better than ProQ it is though, so might give it a shot too.

I used the Tilt EQ the other day on a synth and it literally did the job better than any EQ I tried on that synth previously. Some of these are gems, albeit a little more abstract. As for Crusher, I believe I got this one from Lars ?

I was wondering that about Motor too. That's the missing one for me. I've got a spare license for Things Texture if it helps anyone and you have something to swap that I'm interested in ?

If you're thinking about Townhouse by BX, then they are quite different. That's more of a grungier / coloured SSL than an LMC. You can definitely use things like Townhouse for parallel compression though and just use very aggressive settings on it so it's really clamping down hard on the audio and blend that in too. For me I haven't bought this one (yet!), but that's because I use SoundToys Devil-Loc for heavier parallel compression. This is probably closer to LMC than Townhouse (or any of the SSL strips from BX). You can use the LMC as a regular compressor too of course, but that's not it's main niche.

I'd agree with that. They do actually make a handful of very good plugins. They just don't care to listen to what customers are telling them and persist with their crap licensing and ideas.

Even better! Those guys sometimes have some real outliers with pricing and you can snag a bargain from them. Often shortlived as well, but there's been a couple of pricing errors from Best. I'm waiting for them to have Phaseplant on a steep discount again too ?

This isn't a standard SSL compressor like that it's based off using/abusing the listen mic off the old consoles and using that as a compressor. It's most frequently used for drums, generally smashing them in parallel and blending that in. As for NI, for my tastes, it's one of the SSL compressors that doesn't grab me at all soundwise compared to SSL themselves, or a number of the other emulations out there. Probably not bad if people already have it, but I think the others are better personally.