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  1. Brian Walton
    ToneX is far more realistic in sound and feel. I can get usable stuff out of MTurbo Amp with some of the best IRs on the market, but honestly it simply doesn't get used any longer now that I have ToneX and a bunch of aftermarket packs. I've even profiled some of my TurboAMP patches with ToneX to get them in "pedal form" but they all got removed from my 150 pedal slots - overturned by better stuff created with real gear. I could say the same about the others on your list but at least MTurbo Amp has a lot more sounds in the box than the others in your list at a reasonable price point. But note that with MTurbo AMP you do need an external IR loader (with IRSs) or an external cab sim - it will sound truly awful without one.
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    it was cheap on release - something like $19.
  4. Brian Walton
    As I've said before you need to actually buy the more expensive melda plugins to get the "normal" UI which does look a bit different for each plugin. While I own many United Plugins, they don't seem to offer what Melda does over all. Many are less than CPU optimized and offer less in function than Melda even though they are likely developed on a smilar/same platform.
  5. Brian Walton
    Check tonenet, looks like he has a Marshall 1974x hardwired and a 59 magnatone a out to be released along with the new dominator.
  6. Brian Walton
    Essential is basically the base amp captures using the default cab (3 common eq settings and the clean to dirty to lead - if applicable gain range) Core is the same amp with DI captures (no cab baked into the preset) Expansion is using different eq settings (thin, fat, etc) and pedals. They should probably make a better blurb about it, but hope that helps provide the context. I personally wish they were all included at the same price. ?
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    The Express amp TJ has is a master volume amp and design Ken Fischer never actually made. The design was made from things he came up with and made recently by the person building wrecks under the brand. Agree to grab the free ones and see what one thinks. But I'd also note the above as it isn't a grail wreck or anything but it is pretty cool.
  8. Brian Walton
    I have not shared any of the Trainwreck captures. The owner of the amp may look to sell them directly or see what a deal with the signature line would look like. The amp is far more rare than those dumbles in the signature pack.
  9. Brian Walton
    They put out videos for pretty much every pack they offer, just need to check youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/ToneJunkieTV/videos As for trying them out, I have all of them. The Marshall Astria and the Bad Cat 30 are arguably his best captures. I'm a massive Trainwreck fan - so I'd grab that too as no-one else has a commercial pack of one. That said, it doesn't hold a candle to some Trainwreck captures I've done - but it is also a different model and on-sale I'd say worth getting. I'll also add that Amalgam Audio does really high quality work and I have about half of those (would have more but the cost really adds up
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    They seem to be one of the good guys. I have it installed on more of my computers than you can do any of the PA stuff - for example.
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    I see this in my portal - also bought via PA previously:
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    Haven't used this yet but I wouldn't be concerned about the size vs quality. He was pretty clear that this isn't strictly sample based and thus why he didn't call out how many layers he was using even in the full product to get it down to a "reasonable" size. The installer for AAS Lounge Lizard Player is pretty small and that sounds good enough. Large single instrument libraries are frankly annoying, and usually the result of many mic positions and things of that nature, not just dynamic layering.
  13. Brian Walton
    Thread will get locked for certain if such a thing was shared. Just google it. Took me 5 seconds to find it.
  14. Brian Walton
    Well first of all your i9 alone outclasses the vast majority of computers in the wild. Then adding a Video Card on top of that (which is still fairly modern) and you clearly meet the it should work spec. The average person these days has a laptop (your machine will smoke many pretty expensive machines these days) so you are far from a normal use case. Not even close. Davinci would run without your GPU with that kind of processor, but yes, Davinci should in theory be looking for the GPU when it was installed.
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    This has to be the best free thing they have ever given away. Already had it, but this is one of the only plugins they make that I've actually used on projects before. Most of the others never seem to get used.
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    I'll also weigh in that Davinci resolve is powerful (and pretty easy to learn) - but it is also far from efficient. It needs a modern CPU/Graphics card to do any sort of multi-cam work. It won't even run at all on older machines with single videos. Out of all the video editors I've used, Davinci is the most particular about the hardware it needs to see to run properly.
  17. Brian Walton
    Download the free CS version, you should grab that anyway. If you buy the full version it simply unlocks, no separate installer, etc.
  18. Brian Walton
    They are two different products, but honestly I find that the amp modeling itself does render the IKM amp obsolete as long as you have good captures of the gear you want. Per you quote, TONEX can be a capture of legendary gear to be used in the digital DAW domain and it is a far more accurate representation of that gear. However, it can only capture Amps, CABs, MIC, and Dirt (not the time and modulation effects). If you ran the CS version you might not have a grasp on just how much better it can be than AT5 in terms of quality. And I'll be a bit blunt about it, AT5 doesn't really have much "grail" gear in the AMP dept. With Tonex we have Dumble, Trainwreck, Two-Rock, Matchless, 60s era Marshalls, Fender, Vox. Most of the stuff in AT5 I could grab at Guitar Center.
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    If you have Tonex you can run it as an Amp in AT 5. ToneX gives you realistic amps (and dirt pedals) and has some reverb, comp, and noise gate. If you are a straight into amp player it is all you need. If you are an effects junkie you can run other effects before and after if using as a vst, but not in standalone mode. Owning both basically gives you the at effects plus the superior Tonex amps I basically don't run AT5 after getting ToneX as I have better effects and Tonex gives me better amps.
  20. Brian Walton
    Good loader, but also sorely missing a powerful EQ system to allow you far more flexibly in creating an IR. Thus less of an all in one solution than it could have been. Also note (as one might expect) the positioning graphics only work for proprietary paid packs. So no simulation/eq manipulation for standard IRs. That said, I certainly recommend something like this to start (just like Melda's free Convolution plugin) before buying something.
  21. Brian Walton
    Am I missing something other than Cab, Mic, Acoustic, Reverb IRs? Very rare to see even large space IR captures above 8seconds. In my mind that means it support every type of IR other than the pretty esoteric. I love reverb but 8 seconds is a very long time and most going beyond that will be in the algorithm world not the IR world
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    I'm a massive ToneX fan Own two of the pedals, axe I/o, etc. But the custom IR loading / preview is pretty awful. Maybe even the worst system I've tried. I find myself using another loader to preview to figure out which one to selectively import into Tonex.
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    I did some A/B with both apps. Highly dependent on the source for the results. (using production of both apps). Acon does have more artificats than I expected over all. And is also painfully missing a Guitar algo. Two pretty different tools to have in the box though. IMO.
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    Nope, not even a little bit.
  25. Brian Walton
    I'm waiting for them to update the UI so it isn't super tiny. Sounds good but rarely use it because the controls are so small.
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