Brian Walton

Yeah and when they do them direct you can also get a bigger discount if you own stuff in the bundle unlike through Best Service

If all you want is a run of the mill AC30 with blues in it simulation, the free Melda convolution plugin plus one of many free AC30 blue cab IRs is all you need. The only thing that might have more free IRs might be a reissue marshall 69 4x12. You certainly don't need mcab for that

Are we talking about the same company? I realize not everyone has the issues but WAVES is literally the plugin maker I think of that an installer update has broken previously working plugins just because I was trying to install new purchases. Then if you don't pay for WUP you will never get them to work again. Sound fine I can agree with. Reliability, they are bottom of the barrel for me, and my plugin folder is well in excess of 1000 plugins so I'm not a total newbie in the market or have super limited experience across multiple brands.

This Melda product isn't about amp simulation so you might want to dive in more before writing it off, is isn't even a guitar plugin for the most part. But it can be since it has amp and convolution built in. Not sure what Guitar Pro a transcription/notation type of program has to do with anything Melda offers in this plugin or otherwise.

For the LE version I wouldn't download the huge drummer packs unless you own MDrummer personally. Just the "essential" one. The drums sound great but with LE the issue is someone has to have incorporated them into an instrument for you to get value out of them.

Until you lose it or it break it and I wonder if you don't have WUP if they would even reset for you (yes I'm sure you in particular have WUP) PA gives the same option with three USB sticks at a time.

Of course perpetual seat buyers get nothing. Typical Waves move.

Most professional guitarists hire someone to work on their guitars...there is a massive difference between playing them and working on them for both setup and swap out...especially on a semi-hollow body which can be a real pain.

I thought I was going to land on a 339 as a life long Gibson owner but tried a few and then ended up buying a Heritage Prospect instead. I would only buy on-line if the return policy is good. I played a couple 339s in local stores and the Heritage mopped the floor with them. But I've played some 339s that are quite good.

Amalgam is also my go to (wish I owned all of them). But I do have all of ToneJunkie (thanks to the pricing system) and a few from others as well. That is certainly the least effort to excellent results route. But I will say a handful of my favorite profiles were not aftermarket packs. But that can feel more like a needle in a haystack. And as someone that has done over 400 profiles, I can say it is very time consuming and not every capture is what it should be. I was capturing one of the most valuable amps ever made and it was frustrating to be there in the studio with limited time and doing advanced captures and having two profiles (which takes hours - and on some computers would have literally been a about 2 days of computer processing for 2 images) to basically sound corrupted. Took another capture and it was arguably the best I've heard from anyone. But that time cost me more capture opportunities.

Wouldn't have paid more than $50.00 for the company. That said AVID isn't just protools.

Purchase of this freebie would make it the 2nd most expensive reverb plugin I've ever bought (meldaMTurbo). And I have a fairly respectable collection of verbs. (and also not going to happen)

$170 for an in the box eq is simply too much given the alternatives. Yes, I like the interface better but that is about it. I wouldn't pay $100 for KEQ either but it can be had for a lot less.

I'm using the axe I/o for ease of setup but any reamp box will do along with another audio interface. Outside of some pretty unique gear I have access to the reality is there are lots of people that have packs or free quality captures of the usual suspects. Like the example above there a plenty of ac30 models out there, and from various time periods because for those that don't know an ac30 you buy today is not the same thing as a number of variations over the decades where other brands have done a better job renaming amps when a circuit changes.

Everyone has different needs, I have tons of amp sims but given the choice between owning everything other than Tonex or Tonex, I'd literally pick Tonex.

Kirchoff is super light on the CPU so I'd be curious to see a side by side with the same filters applied to see if there is in fact a material difference in consumption.

Do you have a paid version of ToneX?

Also I never install the vst2 with Melda. So one more variable

It seems impressive but the current state of it needing an internet connection to work and other language appear to make this nothing more than an extended trial that will end once they ask for payment. Hoping the price is reasonable as I'd like to get away from Clarity VX which is the only Waves plugin left in my plugin folder.

For what it is worth, I did my normal upgrade install which included the clean up. Seemed to install fine and I previously did not try the beta for the release as I sometimes do. So went from "7" to "8" without much issue and know 8 loaded because the NAM loader is in MGA.

Neural amp modeler is an open source Amp capture program (much like ToneX and some reports suggest even more accurate). There are free amp profiles out now, and a few people even make paid packs for it. Thus adding it to the program means we can get amp profiles along with meldas own turbo amp creations. And profiling with all the effects Melda has seems like candyland. https://www.neuralampmodeler.com/

NAM support is huge but can't wait to test drive to see what the CPU hit might be like.

As someone who has access to Ken Fischer of Trainwreck amps prototype hand built attenuator and can say with some confidence that a power attenuator is a pretty significant compromise to sound and response. Captures on the otherhand can be made at full tilt so you don't have to endure that again.

There is a time and place for both. You always want to play at that kind of volume? I can't imagine having to blast a PA system in my home just to play along with a track. Sure , sometimes but every time? You could capture the amp and get the settings you like to pull them up at anytime. I've done so with an amp that is far more difficult to capture than a 2204 and while it isn't the same thing as playing it in the room with a 4x12 with pre-rolla 30s in it...it does sound and feel quite close to what the experience is like using it in a studio where the cab is isolated and all you really experience is the micd tone. And my house isn't sound proof enough to make a 125db amp not bleed everywhere.

Or you can buy a plugin that will never sound or feel right. Yes a lot of what is on tonenet simply isn't all that inspiring but I've been able to find quite a bit of good stuff easily, and also have captured some of my own gear. Now that they released some collections from 3rd parties, I'd suggest typing those user names in and grab the ones they gave for free. Those amps alone can provide a wealth of quality sound if you take some time to adjust the eq and gain for your own taste. I captured a bunch of amp sims using TONEX not only to try them in a pedal board but also to compare to real amp captures. Almost all 150 slots on the pedal got taken up by real gear captures after doing comparisons. A few exceptions exist, but those will likely be on the chopping block. If you have good IRs Tonex has replaced my extensive amp sim collection.