Craig Fowler

I have the fuzz pedal but not the rack. It's pretty good, I think, though I haven't played with it a lot. Hobbyist with kids = not much time for music, alas. I do really like the Marshall and Soldano sims - I probably prefer them without the pedal in the chain, but that's how I feel about pedals in front of real amps as well!

Unless you need the unison technology (which looks really appealing, admittedly), I think there's something to be said for keeping the interface/processing DSP separately. Perhaps I just don't like having all my eggs in one basket.

For a "reverb" it might be priced on the high side. It doesn't look as if it has anywhere near the flexibility of something like UAD's Ocean Way (e.g., no mic positioning from what I can tell), but if it can get somewhere in the ballpark, the intro price maybe ain't crazy. I'm curious enough to do a bit of digging on this.

The Yamaha grands are the only ones I never liked from ST. I think it was 7C that I found disappointing.

The white grand and black grand are nice instruments. Tubed Keys is fun. @synthmeisterI get the sense that the folks at PW just don't like Sampletekk much. Sure, these are old libraries, but they're samples of decades (sometimes century)-old instruments, so I don't really get their point. I guess if you're a classically trained pianist who's used to perfectly-maintained instruments, modern scripting can make a big difference. But, for most piano players, these old libraries should hold up nicely. The Old Lady is still one of my all time favourites, and I have no shortage of much newer options!

I don't have it, and I'm tapped out, but that may just be may favorite GUI of all time.

Simon! You got me all excited, and for WHAT?! ?

The simple route works! I've been really pleased with my Behmor and like how much control it gives you, but $399USD is a crazy price; I think I paid about $300 New Zealand Dollars for mine. At nearly $100 less, I'd get the Technivorm.

I also am a big fan of the aeropress, though I usually use a Hario dripper because my wife prefers it. The machine I've got in my office is the Behmor Brazen+, which is very good. It's designed to be an automated pourer-overer if memory serves, and has certification for things like brewing at the correct temperatures, etc. I'm not sure how easily available they are at the moment, but I'd buy one again. https://www.wholelattelove.com/products/behmor-brazen-plus-coffeemaker

My BF list had one item on it: "nice algorithmic reverb'. https://www.bestservice.com/lx480_complete.html

Any thoughts on the RC24/48 reverbs? I'd been toying with the UAD Lex224 which is $139 at the moment, but $99 for the pair of NI 'verbs doesn't sound bad...if they sound good!

That's exactly what I did. The clean demos of the Soldano have that gorgeous 'hairy' sound.

You're thinking of geese ?

I could never find a use for this, but I'm glad it exists!

It could/should be!

Good to hear someone else finally give the trace some love! It sounds really close to my hardware TEs

Thanks for the tip on the outside IRs - really haven't had time to play with it much yet! Seriously, how spoiled are we with so many great sounding ITB solutions for guitar/bass amps? The one thing I feel I still don't have is a great Vox-style sound, but there are some cracking ampsims out there!

Blimey, bit of a trip down memory lane, there - good times!

Zo, have you picked up BX's bassdude on your travels through guitarland? If so, what do you think of it? If you still have a voucher you can use, it's hard to argue with $4.99! I put it on something last night that I'd been using Amplitube's Super Reverb on, and it seemed to work better for that track (and I'm pretty keen on IK's guitar stuff!).

I was able to stack the reissued monthly voucher with this; got it for $14.99. I haven't demoed it for sound, but I like that I can read the text on the faceplate so easily! Sad when that's one of the things you think of first!

Underwhelming's put it kindly. I don't have a lot of PSP stuff - just the 2445 reverb (which I freakin' love) and E27 EQ, I think - but I got both of those for about half of what they're on offer for here IIRC.

SVX2 is really good!

Sorry Peter - sneakily quoting you in the hope it'll give you a notification. I'm not sure if there's anything you can do to help me--and the group buy is generous as is, so I'm not fussed if you can't Long story short, I wasn't very strategic in how I used my freebie slots. I've bought in three times, twice quite early at the $149 tier and a third time later on at the $99 tier when I couldn't choose between some items! Alas, I did things such as burn a $149 freebie on things like Orange, Slash, and Fulltone before jumping in with my $99 tier option. Do you have any cosmic clout that would let me 'bump' them over so they can count in my $99 buy in so I can free up some higher-tier slots for other things? Gotta be worth a shot, right?

It's pretty amazing what you can do in the new(ish) mic/cab/room area in Amplitube. I'm sure people with the skills and space can better recorded sounds from a regularly mic'd amp, but for those of us pootling around at home, Amplitube lets us do some great things.

On the main head there are lots of switches affecting the gain. I did also have something weird happen after scrolling back to Slash from another amp where the volume just vanished. Not sure if either of those things sounds like what you're seeing. Sounded great though!