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

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.

I see this in my portal - also bought via PA previously:

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.

Thread will get locked for certain if such a thing was shared. Just google it. Took me 5 seconds to find it.

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.

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.

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.

Download the free CS version, you should grab that anyway. If you buy the full version it simply unlocks, no separate installer, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nope, not even a little bit.

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.

Surprised the Studio Rats new profiles were not included in this update/notification. They have a few news ones on the site and that they did videos for.

I've been doing this monthly since they released the first TONEX pack. I've never been able to grab a 100 off, but did get 90+ a couple times and I've also bought at lower tiers. I think you will find outside of this promo grabbing 100% off isn't going to be easy - and certainly will waste a fair bit of your time to do so - and in attempting to you will be revising the site over and over again. Paying top dollar is certainly deterred, but even though I own it all today (ToneX, IR packs) they release stuff every month and I'll grab that too when I'm able to get 80% and better and there are likely enough of us in that same boat given how quickly the 80%+ discounts go in non BlackFriday weeks. Edit - just a few min ago they released another amp, I certainly wouldn't mind picking up. And all the codes are used up as far as I can tell.

$23 to tell you all your plugins sound the same and you wasted thousands of dollars. ? I've avoided buying something like this because I tend to think there is more to plugins than EQ curves, etc. And aliasing is pretty over-rated. If it is bad enough for you to hear it that is fine for me to avoid the plugin, but I don't need some nerd plugin telling me not to use something that even I can't hear something might be aliasing.

There are 10 year old versions of Cakewalk that people still use....Windows breaking stuff usually isn't the problem historically.

Right now, not so much in terms of samled acoustic instruments but the point of Melda is the constant updates and additions. I tend to guess this massive guitar and bass project he has going has some possibility of making it inside, if he doesn't make it a separate vst.

I've mentioned this before elsewhere. The top tier codes last seconds to minutes usually (some of these have lasted for a bit longer because they are releasing more). Until you actually submit - the codes are "up for grabs" and by the time I go through MFA on paypal I've missed out multiple times when the codes applied to start with.

You bought a better product for less. Well done.

Math here: MMixing bundle is MSRP of $710 = $284 with a 60% off MMixing bundle is MSRP of $710 = $267 with a 50% off and then 25% off of that discounted rate. (counted as $267 instead of $266 since you also have to buy the $1 voucher) Only way this gets better is if they run a 60% off sale before the coupon expires, which is certainty a gamble.