Craig Fowler

I'll see you SSL (which I agree sucks for installation) and raise you a Fitbit. Took over an hour to get my wife's set up - my daughter's Samsung band and my Garmin took < 5 mins!

It's tough to offer stuff at a premium price when you've built a reputation of making fantastic tools and selling them at less than they're worth!

Welcome back!

Hmph. Just bought the JD800 a couple of days ago! The D50 had been on my list as well as I'm on a nostalgia kick. Ah well.

Back up!!

She's amazing. And also very funny (e.g., "Down home dispensary"). I came across when looking for cover versions of GoMM a couple of years back, and it's just stunning.

Qualification seems to be broad: I sent proof that I was a current faculty member at a uni (you don't have to be studying or teaching music). You have to add items to cart to see the 50% reduction, I believe.

Just throwing this out there, but I discovered that I was eligible for Eventide's educational discount - which is 50% off the *sale* prices. Got my long-awaited T-verb for under $40 USD!

Really appreciate the careful review, Brian - and great tip on the IR for acoustics, which I would never have thought of. I replaced the Fishman system in my Taylor 300-series with an LR Baggs Anthem - it's a huge improvement for recording, but still lacking in an amplified context, so this is really useful info!

Be curious to see what you think of it when you've had a chance to put it through it's paces properly.

Up and running now. If anyone got an email with a 'forward to friends' code and has nobody else to send it to, I'll gladly take one 🙂

I didn't even know the essentials version of this existed. I don't know how it compares to the full version, but the full one is my go to for piano reverb! $25. https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/relab-rev6000-essentials.html?lid=y4b49cnetkrl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=EXT Relab + Safari Pedals launch | active users + MEGA | 20/05/2025&utm_id=190bfc58-529a-44c6-a4ee-11fac225b5dc&utm_content=newsletter-email_190bfc58-529a-44c6-a4ee-11fac225b5dc

I bought this a while back because I couldn't afford the Fabfilter or Softube multibands. It sounds good and is a lot more intuitive than most MBCs.

Oh you tease, Larry...made me think TVerb had finally hit $29!

I agree with Brian that you'll probably get more for your money with Amalgam if you already have ToneX and use the coupons (I always do the 3for2; I'm not sure if they're permanently active). With that said, $99 is a great price for the UAD bundle. At that price, there's not much difference in price compared to buying them as captures but you get a nicer (IMO) GUI to work with and a quicker and more intuitive (albeit more limited) workflow. FWIW, I think the UAD AC30 and Dream (which is a Deluxe Reverb) are really top notch. They're not necessarily my favourite amp sims ever, but they're probably my favourites of their type, e.g., even though I have the Amalgam BFDR and AC30 captures, I think I prefer the UAD equivalents. The UAD and Amalgam BFDRs can be made to sound nearly identical, and they both sound uncannily like the real 60 year-old amp I have sitting in my music room (and my room/recording abilities mean the real thing doesn't sound as good when I record it). The Lion is also great; I haven't spent much time with the Tweed so far and it hasn't wowed me. As I mentioned in the TotalMax thread, I really like the new Amalgam Brownface captures. I've not been disappointed with any of the Amalgam captures, though - they're just different flavours of 'excellent.'