Brian Walton

I really like Nembrini amp sims....but I'm always puzzled by software releases where the retail price is a few bucks less than you can get the hardware for. Of course the into price is better, but year round at about $140 and you can grab good condition used hardware around $160 doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Here is to hoping he releases some boutique goodness (Trainwreck, Komet, TwoRock) in the next go round.

You are correct: And there are many others (just a few examples):

Shadowhills Green and "A" sound pretty different to me so that doesn't seem like only a feature change (adding the resizable interface, TMT, headroom, stereo, mix controls). Now masterdesk there are 3 of them. "Classic" was released after Masterdesk with a streamlined feature set for free (I'm cool with that try it you might like it approach). The new one "true peak" I think should have simply been an upgrade to the original (which retailed for $299 and now dropped to $149). They did offer a $20 price to get TruePeak so it isn't crazy for previous users, but still honestly think it should have been a nice included upgrade instead of an entierly new product as it seems pretty unlikley MasterDesk(the original) is going to see another actual update. Amek EQ 200 vis 250 Zo points out is the crazy one. Since people tested it and it showed it was practically the same EQ going on with different visual knobs and a slight curve adjustment type of thing going on. I forgot about Unfiltered Audio in the discussion of "innovate" even though I own most of all of them. They certainly think outside of the box and are not afraid to release something that a large percentage of the audio production population wouldn't actually use. We need developers like them to break outside of the "same old EQ and Compressor" plugins we all have way too many of at this point.

I was thinking NeuralQ was the most resourse intensitve plugin I ever tried using. Did they fix that or are you using a super computer? I uninstalled it within an hour if memory serves me correctly. Not that it didn't sound good, but computer resources are valuable.

Sounds like a buzz word in this context to me. That said, the "AI" iZotope has I think produces results worthy of the title. One of course can argue against it actually being intelligent...but it clearly is capable of altering audio to match characteristics that must have taken a very long time to compile into a set of characteristics we expect to hear as mix ready.

It has been less than a year. I honeslty didn't expect any cross platform "integrations" yet as these are small development teams and actually doing any cross platform development work is going to take time. It took them what seemed like months just to get the revised store up and running. As for ground breaking. Sure PA didn't develop it, but the Kirchhoff EQ they bought, updated a little and released feels fairly ground breaking to me. And while Izotope does tend to be cutting edge, those products are also at the very top of the market. RX Advanced alone is on sale for $800 USD. You could by every single PA plugin (100 something) for that even without owning a single PA plugin to start with.

Yeah the SPL I ran a demo on a while ago and passed on the purchase becuase of the size/UI. I have enough tools that I don't want to buy things that could end up obsolete in the near term. While I still run monitors at 1080P, I do have higher rez ones and there will likley come a time where 1080 is basically no longer the standard.

I like that one too, but it also needs a larger UI. It feels tiny and cramped like all the Elysa releases. I do like the sound and basic features it has though.

I'd expect at least a 7 month wait for the $29 tier. I'm curious if this comes with a "mix" version in addition to the mastering one. I don't have the bundle to find out. Surprised they focused on a Mastering comp, while that sounds fancy - it is also what feels like the more over represented in the PA store. Eliysa , SPL, two Shaddow Hills, (even master desk), plus a couple other bus comps a normal studio might treat as something the Mastering engineer might apply (Townhouse, and Vertigo VSC-2, Lindell SBC) Never really feel like I'm at a loss for choices in the PA lineup on this. But for a basic track compressor I frequently start thinking about and grabbing outside the PA basket. I'm also expecting higher CPU usage here like the AMEK 200, 250 EQs get.

Im talking about the everything bundle regarding out of my price range...I have quite a few in my collection.

Only way to get all future plugins at no additional future cost is the bundle though. That is the theoretical advantage of going all in. Way outside of my price range but those who got in on it many years ago saw a pretty amazing value out of it. Will be curious to see what is in the years to come. I'm betting the mixing revolution concept he is working on isn't going to be a cheap $10 plugin.

Mguitararchitect will be the all in one, amp, cab, and some effects plugin which is a beta type of installer now. I agree it was an odd move to not have any sort of cab option built in. I wonder what the resource uptick would have been to add a simple convolutionez loader in it. I own turbo amp and mcab so I wonder what the upgrade price will be. Thankfully the turboamp had a pretty reasonable intro price as it felt like it took forever to get out of beta. I didn't test guitararc yet, I hope it has a nicely featured ir loader not just the stock Mcab stuff.

Nah, cheapest I've seen is when they gave it away at launch. Big fan of the "as many computers as you personally own" license system.

Did you run this by the developer and perhpas share such a project file with them? I haven't used MAudioStereoFix but have used a bit of MAutoAlign. Any Problem I personally had were with the sources (resonances, poor room reverb, etc). I'm sure they would be curious to investigate any issues.

It helps to have a collection of Guitar Cab IRs to go along with it that are of high quality, but you can open one of the guitar presets like I've shown above, then load your own IR(s) and save it as a new preset so you get to keep that UI but using your own collection. (ML Sound Pre-Rolla 30s via the MARS PR Cab Pack - also available individually - are my go to) Melda's Convolution plugin is a bit unique in the low latency / low consumption department and tends to make it a bit more usable than some for reverb as well. If you have some good IRs it can sound quite realistic in ways that algo verbs don't.

Earlier this year I thought I remember a video where Vojtech was being interviewed by Plugin Boutique and they aluded to one of the biggest revolutions is yet to come.....literally called the mixing revolution Start watching somewhere around the 2:10:00 mark or so where they talk about the pipe line of stuff to come. (2:14 or so they talk about that one specifically)

Yes, I'm referring to getting a $50 voucher. The $32 min on the $25 voucher has been standard for what seems like years now.

The $25 one is generic again, and you have to spend quite a bit to hit $50 anyway. 2023-01-25gIH9Zdf45rD8

Using that for a couple weeks is what tipped me into getting the MB version. A little bit of "why" EZ is limited to a single IR and limited controls. Not to mention it is only resizable with a paid upgrade to unlock it (and the rather pedestrian interface) MB Version Below: Blending IRs Advanced EQ of IRs/the signal Additional Controls: Better interface and Controls for the Reverbs as well.

More or less a change in branding from the last 50% off sale that was running but gives us another 14 days of 50% off. https://www.meldaproduction.com/ My referral code for any new users to get 20% off on top of the 50% off: MELDA31209027 (and sign up for the newsletter to get an instant extra $10 off) My newest discovery with Melda has been how invaluable the MConvolutionMB has become to me as an IR loader. The ease of switching through IRs to demo them is great and for whatever reason it seems like the output gives me a more robust signal with the same IRs as some other loaders/programs. I find many times I'll even bypass a built in IR loader (such as what comes with TONEX) and run MCMB instead. Then I can even run another instace of it for totally seperate Reverb controls (as the reverb is also great). Of course they have lots of useful plugins but this is one that I use way more than I expected to.

Just the typical fair warning with WAVES. The update broke mine (and yes I have v14 installed and licensed despite the "v13" in the error)

Yes I certainly have a few also, but having trouble thinking of free ones other than this I might actually use. One doesn't need many that is for sure, but I try to keep in mind that not everyone has spent (i.e. wasted thousands of dollars) on plugins and call out freebies that are of better quality than some paid options.

Punish Lite I think is pretty good. I would have assumed it was heavy handed distortion due to the name and UI, but it can do subtle bus grade saturation duties and for free I'd absolutely recommend it to people that don't want to pay for one of the top transparent saturators on the market.

the first part is a coupon code for each that brings them down to $0.00

I haven't done any actual analysis on it, but the VoxDucker I think is also EQ based or has an eq component with Broadband, Multiband and Spectral options. "the plugin features three types of ducking to choose from, each offering varying levels of transparency, preserving more of the ducked signal by focusing the ducking on frequencies present in the sidechain signal. You can easily switch between them to find which mode is the perfect fit for your situation."