Brian Walton

Yes, I agree you can. But simulating that also means doubeling up on the console emulation. And it within a DAW freeze process seems like you would then be freezing, taking that track and moving it to antoehr track to then potentially freeze it again if you need to based on the extra effects needed. You are correct, but in my experience (which might seem limited) I'd say most people do not record straight to tape without making some other adjustments before getting it there. That said, I stopped using tape years ago and perhpas modern methods changed dramatically.

Tape is LAST in a typical channel /effects workflow if you are trying to simulate a real world scenario. You don't plug your guitar into a tape machine then add EQ, Comp, Reverb after that....you do all that and then you run it into tape to record it. So you are freezing after everything else is set...thus the fader comment. It isn't a slight of your mixing abilites, it is a workflow consideration.

Thats fine as long as mixing to you is only automating faders. As for me, I prefer the freedom to continue to make changes with out having to freeze/unfreeze

AirWindows ToTape does it easily ToneBoosters Reelbus v4 seems fairly light for a Tape Emu also The IK Tape Machines sound great, but I'm with other posters pretty big CPU hog where I'm looking at only BUS work. I also don't need ALL of those machines, I'd love for just the singles to go on a nice sale.

Really want the LE version. Hopefully next time it goes on a nice sale. Got it the player when they gave out Montastry Grand. Not really ever expecting to buy into it (though I think the Grand is excellent), but I expect this will be a powerhouse of an instrument at some point and would be nice to have and now is at the top of my list of Melda plugins I want but don't have.

I haven't upgraded the G8 (they have a less feature rich version free with Computer Music Magazine) that has been my go-to for years....and don't have to deal with 3 machine authorization limitations. I've got Sandman Pro and BYOME but need to spend with them. Haven't tried SpecOps yet, but seems interesting too.

the Ozone Elements and Spred plugins don't need a sub (I posted that deal in a different thread). We liklely all have Elements, but this was the first time I've seen Spread for free. I gave it a test spin and seems pretty cool. Reminds me of Boz Mongoose, Pan Knob, and Ozone imager. The "multiband" style spreading is interesting. Haven't done testing to determine the mono mix down impacts, but seems like it could be useful.

That one wasn't even on my radar really and now I wonder if I can resist buying it, even though I just got "spread" for free. ?

Need is a dirty and smelly word. ? I'd certainly agree that most of us have any "needs" well covered, but these deals make it so that added another tool in the box is fun. As a guitarists these become reasonable price points to grab another amp flavor. Other effects such as compression and EQ start to come down more to workflow. I'll keep collecting them as long as the price is right. I've got a number of them and have bases covered in virtually all areas more than once, but I'm open to buying more given the quality PA offers. If they had a WAVES style 1 seat per purchase system, I wouldn't bother even if the price was low. PA (along with others) helped me ditch WAVES.

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That is the base sale price. If they have vaild loyalty vouchers at the same time period (those of us that get them) would have extra savings on top of the sale. However, they timed this one so that no-one has loyalty vouchers. They ran the Lindell 80 on sale at the start of the month, and some of us had $25 vouchers which would have made it about $25 out of pocket. I passed on that but picked up BOME for $15 later in the month. I'd still like to get Lindell 80 though.

The queestion isn't related to how powerful your headphones are. Many "better" quality headphones are a higher Ohm and need more juice than a phone/computer pre-amp is going to supply. Thus the need for an external pre-amp to drive the headphones to make them sound like they were designed to. If your headphones are over 32 Ohms you would benefit from a headphone amp. Even 32 can usually benefit from them.

You are correct!

Depending on your headphones you might want to get an external headphone amp to drive them. That can help the signal you get from a $2 interal headphone pre-amp on a laptop. But even a cheap one is going to be $20-30 at which point you would start wondering if it just makes sense to use a cheap/old single channel interface.

I used mine previously. But they timed this sale to not overlap with the voucher which strategically ended on the 29th of March according to the email. Would have been nice. ?

PM sent, thanks!

Lots of rust on that plugin. Seriously though, starting to wish I had a Focusrite interface. They have had some nice add-ons including this one I'd be happy to have.

Well the sound download limitations timeframe for other products is an odd one. Yeah they are large but you are still hosting the files for other customers to download. Thus the quesiton is why IKM limits access to them, you still have to host them at a data center of some kind until a product is end of life.

Link to any custom themes beyond the included light and dark theme.

Might want to work with the product team on the whole deployment process over stuff like this. Yes, I was able to get it but the whole process is convoluted from the instructions on the website, to downloading the presets within the app itself to then having to manually unzip and then stick them in an entierally different folder. Something like this should just be "download presets" and that is it, ready to rock. Look forward to actually getting to play with them at a future date.

I don't think I'd seen this one posted, but "Decent Sampler" is way better than decent. https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin/ Most of the EXS24 free sample libraries on https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ have been converted to Decent Sampler format (suposidly about 100 of them though I've only tried about 20). There isn't a fantastic way to find specifilly Decent Sampler versions all in one view yet. However it is pretty easy to find them. Select the instrument catergory, then search for EXS24 and click on a library on the page on the right it will tell you if a Decent Sampler version is available:

AT5 while quite good only opened the door for me to take in the box sims seriously. That said they lack some of my go to sounds, I think they need to dive deeper in the boutique market. PA sims became my go to as they offer closer to the sounds I'm after and are lighter on the resources. But for an all in on solution AT5 would certainly be the top contender.

As did I, but we also got extras other Cakewalk users didn't. IMO, we have't been lied to on that front.....yet. There are ways to run it on a Mac, but lets be honestly anyone that buys a MAC also isn't a real deal connoisseur.

Those that don't use Cakewalk clearly have some things to learn about the best audio deal on the market.

This isn't appropriate for the Deals forum.