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Slightly confused by the various feedback. So what's the bottom line on this amp sim? Is it, that if you have ToneX not to bother adding it to your collection? <sigh> Yeah I could demo it & I will try to do that this weekend, but still value the opinion of the other guitar geeks who haunt this forum.

Thanks for heads up, but all already updated here.

Looks like things got delayed at NewFangled...

WTF My math must be worse than I thought... but the 2nd attempt took me straight to the download.

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Wasn't aware of this one. Some nice features and free to boot! Now if only my GPU had the horsepower...

I've bought 2 guitars in the past from MonoPrice and they were both pretty good. I had been wanting a Tele for ages but had no real budget. So I bought MonoPrices Tele knockoff and it turned out to be an excellent guitar. It came properly setup / intonated, nice fret job and came with locking tuners. I was impressed. This was over 5 years ago when they had brought a new master luthier onboard and were talking about their quality in their advertising. Not sure if quality is same or not on current line https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=610261 don't know what else has changed but the one they sell now doesn't have locking tuners. Around 2 or 3 years ago I got their red Strat version to use as the basis for a parts-caster. I had a variety of components (Fluence - Fishman loaded pickguard, locking tuner set, etc.) that I was going to use on Strat upgrade that never happened. The guitar needed some minor fret dressing but was overall not a bad guitar (I've seen worse real Fenders**) and didn't sound half bad; if I didn't have close over $400 of parts looking for a home I might have kept it as it was. This guitar is now one of my favorites. Monoprice has a 30 day money back guarantee so if you get crap you can also get your money back. **My Fender Jazzmaster Squire came with the worst fret job on any guitar I've ever owned etc for the $15 junker I bought at garage sale to test pickups on.

I find the biggest thing that improves my vocals is forgetting to turn on the phantom power to my condenser microphone.

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But it's Gibson! Who here has ever had a bad experience with Gibson? Running to get my coat...

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Does not apply toward All Access Pass...

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Hoping that this year they have another 50% off sale so that I can leverage my vouchers. If they do the same this year it'll kick in sometime this week.

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Personally IMHO all of these type of plugins/processors are gimmicks but as they say YMMV. In the studio we had to deal with a variety of leakage types... Console module crosstalk - electronic bleed from other modules or just console electronics. Tape track bleed through - adjacent tracks bleeding through (more of an issue on 24 track tape and its physically smaller track area). Tape print through - one layer of tape imprinting on another. You would always have some pre or post print through - which was louder depended on how the tape was stored. One of the most famous examples is the vocal pre-delay on Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love. Headphone bleed - cue mix getting picked up by vocal or acoustic microphones. While most of the time you could ignore this stuff sometimes it was an issue and it could be a real pain in rear ('Where the hell is that guitar coming from? All the guitar tracks are muted!"). Except for 'Whole Lotta Love' where they liked the effect of the vocal pre-delay due to tape print through I don't recall ever hearing a producer say 'Thank god for that (name your instrument) bleeding through!'. I do recall a couple of occasions of spending time to manually erase all non-used tracks or sections between parts to eliminate bleed through as much as possible; an easy thing to do on a DAW, but sometimes challenging to do on a tapedeck. I am waiting for someone to create the plugin that let's you enjoy the magic of recreating all 4 types for bleed through in your DAW so that you (and the end listener) can realistically enjoy the full experience of yesteryear's recording studios.

That's true but I was referring to the issue where a lot of laptops that are 2 or more years old (and probably some newer ones) just don't support M.2 chips that are larger than 2TB.