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Take a quick spectrogram comparison between the live mic setups and the TH3 bounces, it sounds like there is significantly more high end from TH3 (artificial content) than the live mic captures. An EQ matching algorithm can sometimes assist with a post-FX-chain EQ, but they are definitely useful to visualize the frequency differences (the curve required to get the "match"). I suspect that what you are seeing may be more than just the mic shift, but the fact that TH3 is exposing and processing more harmonic content than the live setup does. I have not used TH3 in a while but thought that had more control over mic placement and orientation, but I may be confusing that with another sim.

Mike Greene had sent out a couple of emails regarding this library recently, but I haven't seen it posted here that I could find. There are two variants to this, the Ultimate (113GB) and the Lite (18GB), with the comparison differences near the bottom of either page. Currently on sale for $399 and $199 respectively (versus $599 and $299). His emails detailed a lot of the setup and production, but the synopsis on the pages is simpler to read! He did a lot of work on this to get as many vocal articulations (300) from the Ensemble as he could (very bottom of either page, with 4 tabs to gander through), and took 3 years to finish (there are top/bottom layers possible for each patch). Pretty thorough review below (and a much better walk through of what I said above in the first few minutes).

So this was the exact same setup with the only difference being the amp versus the modeler? That reminded me of another consideration with modelers (though doesn't seem to be a factor here), which is the signal in. It is far easier (and more successful) to remove content than to add non-existing content in, so pickups that output the cleanest set of harmonic content (the more, the better) will have the best chance to mimic any tone. However, having said that, DSP can enhance (in a bad way) those harmonics in a way that analog circuits cannot, which is why using a LPF/EQ to tame that input signal prior to modelers/amp sims is common practice (or put those first in the modeler/amp sim FX chain). As the entire frequency spectrum is being worked with, many analog components do not have a high response rate to exacerbate harmonics in the way that DSP can.

I upgraded to Win11 last week and in dealing with all of the nuances of the update, I noticed today that the system had essentially purged all sound devices not actively connected to the machine during that update. At first I thought it wasn't displaying disabled/disconnected hardware, but they were being shown, just not there. It also enabled everything I had disabled on Win10, so if you have done an O/S change that is something to check, maybe even go as far as uninstalling/re-installing drivers to be sure. Upgrading to Win10 didn't do this (just to clarify), so it may be a TPM artifact of Win11, but is worth noting in case you have shifted O/S to do another run-through of drivers/settings to be sure things are still what they were prior.

+1 to this entire post, in the analog realm there is no way to "prompt jump" (step function) from point A to point B without some transition/smoothing effect, but in the digital realm you very much can. While individual components are often well modeled, their interaction may be lacking. This also leads into the traditional analog medium (magnetic tape), which adds more variables, with hysteresis being one of them. It is the interaction of all those variables that yields the analog result, so the more "piece parts" there are, the harder (or more complex) the modeling will be. Adding more variables onto the pile would be an amp sim accurately modeling a tube amp, especially with complex circuits... my Carvin XV 212 is one of the more complex ones, and LINE6 put a lot of effort into modeling it in their "Legendary Drive." Even though that has the highest CPU usage in HELIX/Native (not sure if that is still the case), it is not fully modeled nor 100% accurate, but as mentioned above, to the average user that will not be an issue/concern. If they never used the hardware, they will be none the wiser. This did give me a good chuckle though, thanks for that! When I slip up and let my sarcasm loose, I catch myself saying, "Congratulations, you Googled something... now you're an expert." from time to time.

Yeah, and most times is not relevant at all anymore (as it is in this case). I wasn't familiar with the computer model so looked it up to see how old it was and the specs on it. You have to go back over 15 years to find a computer not SATA 3 capable, but I wanted to make sure. Back in the day, folks were "upgrading" SATA 2 machines with SATA 3 SSDs and wondering why they saw no improvement afterwards.

+1 to the above. Also for reference, there is a slight difference between SATA 2 and SATA 3 cables themselves, which is that small tab in the upper right of the first picture you posted. Those are SATA 3 (6Gb/sec drive) cables when they have that tab, so those cables match as well.

Just run MOHO 14 (whichever version) to auto-update. Quite a few new features, with the biggest one being able to export into gITF format for direct import into 3D applications. Full feature list is in the manual here. Original thread on MOHO 14 is here if interested. Excellent free tutorial series for MOHO 14 is on YouTube here if you have MOHO 14 and didn't realize it was out there.

Holy crap... I saw this article "New Jersey man believed to be 1st known death from red meat allergy linked to tick bites" (of course, the click-bait doesn't say what state, so I had to click it). The guy didn't realize he had alpha-gal, and basically went into anaphylaxis from it! What's worse... they say "Researchers said that in the eastern U.S., what are sometimes referred to as "chiggers" are often larvae of lone star ticks." LOL, I got bit by about 400 chiggers about 10 years ago now unwittingly tearing up things all around their nest (mentioned that above), but those were definitely chiggers. I never even considered that baby ticks could be confused with them... but then just learned that tick larvae do not attach when they bite, so that is definitely something to keep in mind if you are in areas where lone star ticks live (red counties are worst than yellow, but they are pretty much all over the east half of the US now ).

^^^^ This is definitely worth repeating. I got the Complete Bundle over 8 years ago now and the things that keep getting thrown in just add to the value of that decision. Over time, unless something is truly unique I don't even read about it anymore... Melda covers a lot more bases than other vendors in most cases. Even as a vendor, Melda has always stood out with the focus of getting more users, not allowing folks to duplicate purchase things, and rewarding loyal customers by throwing more free stuff at them. This is a far cry from those that milk their user base for everything they can and charging them for upgrades every year.... never paying for an update on something you own has immense value unto itself.

I can understand the OPs frustration. If you step back and think about it, the Undo history defaults to triple-digits (or used to, but forget the actual number) and that updates interactively. It isn't much of a stretch to ask that the MRU is updated interactively as well, especially since it has far less load to handle.

Another note, it is good practice to put a limiter on your output buss(es) to protect both your ears and hardware. I leave that engaged even when mixing (set high with a steep slope), but disable it for mixdowns/exports. I have seen a couple VSTis glitch over the years that output ~90 dB in the red.

Do you happen to have Z3TA+2? Muz3um had made two patch banks for it years ago, and Minimoog was several of the presets from them. I seem to recall other synths that have Minimoog patches (although the synth itself is not focused on the Minimoog), but Z3TA+2 was the first one that came to mind. NI's Monark is supposedly one of the better ones. I picked that up with Komplete a few years back, but not used it enough to speak to it.

Quick update for you from my downloaded preset "issue" I mentioned above (or for anyone here that may see this issue). This thread from the Line 6 forums has good info and the issue is almost always (probably 90% of the time) that the input is set to something specific (like Variax), so shifting it to "Multi" or "Guitar" will make things good. What I did not think about till I saw that post was that some presets have hardware loop blocks in them (which will interrupt the chain if not connected), but the more obvious one (and my issue with the "Dan Huff, Kinda" preset) is there is a Volume block (straight up volume) that was assigned to zero volume as its default. These are often assigned to an expression pedal, and because the unit has more than one, I didn't think to switch the expression pedal over. The solution for that is to either remove the Volume block entirely (I have gotten used to the volume knob, so don't use a pedal for that) or set the volume default to 100. In either case, once you resolve the issue, re-save the downloaded preset. I hadn't downloaded any presets in a long while, so grabbed 8 that came to mind last weekend but only had issues with that one. Unfortunately, even with that issue resolved, none of the snapshots are very close to what I was seeking, so I am going to have to make one from scratch anyway

Excellent. Thank you for posting the solution. Best of luck with everything!