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I'd be in for the upright bass, at least.

BF week, from various sources: Acustica Sand Toontrack Americana & Funkmasters EZX Seventh Heaven reverb (basic) Elysia nvelope Melda: upgrade of the free bundle + MDrumReplacer (just to confirm, you CAN use this + the 80 Gb samples to augment something like EzDrummer 2) Damage: around $150. Not proud of myself, but I'm happy with the selection. Ok, I definitely didn't need another reverb, but Seventh Heaven is just so damn nice and easy to work with ?

I'm very tempted by Reference 4 Headphone, as I find I'm forced to use headphones more often than not (and that's not even mentioning the problem of using my monitors in an untreated room). I'm also tempted by Waves Abbey Road Studio 3 though, as it adds studio acoustic imaging, and it does come with headphone correction for my headphones (M50x). Anyone have experience with both? Is there a significant difference in EQ correction between the two? I imagine their respective headphone profiles would be fairly similar.

Yeah, I bought it for $20, it's the lowest I've seen it go for. But PSP seem to have increasingly good sales, so unless it's very urgent, chances are you can catch a bargain for it.

Agreed. I find I use Repeater quite often, despite having a bunch of other ones (and not taking anything away from Echoboy, which is awesome). For more creative delay, stuff that's hard to do with other plugins, I like to fiddle with the PSP 608 MD; UA's Sandman Pro can also get crazy, fast.

That's good to know. How do you like the Drum Empire samples?

I wouldn't be using them WITH EzDrummer though, but on the bounced/rendered tracks, maybe I should have been clearer about that. EzDrummer is not that important, I mentioned it because I'm trying to estimate the added value in sounds/tones compared to the Toontrack stuff I already have. I think someone mentioned MDrumReplacer as being able to use the Melda samples, although if MDrumEnhancer can't, that's not a great sign.

I'll probably just upgrade the free bundle, which I use on occasion. I'm not into elaborate sound design, and I'm covered well enough for essentials so that nothing Melda screams YOU NEED ME right now. But I'm intrigued by the available drum samples. So here's a thought: coming from EzDrummer (and a lot of ezx's), I'm thinking of augmenting the sound packs I already have with Melda's. The cheapest/easiest option seems to be getting MDrumReplacer (in a beta/discounted state), splitting EzDrummer channels on individual tracks as usual, then replacing or mixing in Melda's samples to taste. Melda experts, any thoughts?

Same here. I've saved mibby's code, since he's into Melda, and is usually friendly and informative if you need help deciding what to get ?: MELDA2490257 No doubt there are plenty of others around with a referral code.

Aw, ok. Thanks, I thought I was missing something obvious. ?

Where do you see that? I only see the eternal madness discount, and a few other plugins at 50%.

I was fiddling with A360 when it came out. And I really like Vermillion. And Cerberus is a very decent bass amp sim. I might finally get them with this sale. For guitarists, if it's decent, we're interested. And while these are cracking value for someone buying their first plugins, the rest of us would probably rarely choose Kuassa in a blind test over other options we already have. S-Gear, Neural, STL, Amplitube's Fender collections, not even to mention the FX (cough, Soundtoys) ... so do I need this? Of course I do, because I'm a hoarder.

Nice freebie!

If you demo-ed it before, you had an Ilok trial license. Check the tab that shows all your licenses on ilok (including inactive ones), Nolly should be there 'refreshed'. Right click, get it to 'show', so it's in your list of active plugins, then in the tab containing your current/active licenses, right click again and 'activate' it.

I'm holding out for the update that will make it easier to sell.

If you've only tested it once, they 'refreshed' your Ilok trial serial - just need to find it, get it to 'show', then activate it again.

I've been trying out Cali. It's all relative but I don't think you'll miss the cleans in either Nolly or Cali if you have Plini. Between the first two, Nolly is definitely the more versatile (both in terms of amps and FX, although the overdrive pedal in Cali is really nice). Both have decent cleans, so those who are mainly interested in high-gain tones might be covered with a single Neural DSP purchase. I would have been very happy to use Nolly for everything, had I not demo-ed Plini. Again, very generous trial policy, and with the site-wide sale, it's easy to isolate exactly what you like/need. I might get Nolly if I figure out a way to feed myself the following few days ? Can't fault them though; they're not cheap, but they're still awesome value.

It's great that they're so generous with their demo policy (including the recently reactivated 14 day trial). I sure love my Plini. Still, Nolly is very tempting for the high-gain tones.

Acustica. Gold, Pink, maybe more. But my BF budget took a big hit, as I have to fix a shoddy laptop (thank you, Dell!), so Acustica, if you're listening, make it stupidly good. ?

I don't know how many people here are new to Izotope (if any), but this is an awesome deal for those that are. No-brainer territory.

Same here (in EUR), from Analog Lab, the mod 3-pack, and Pigments. Not bad, but not that exciting, either.

I keep finding references to these ultra cheap gear credits, but I'm not familiar with the background story and the current offer doesn't seem to warrant the hype. Did you guys stock up on them 10 years ago when it was, I dunno, $1000 credits for $100?

I'm not sure that would even work. Doesn't their system limit the use of vouchers to 1 loyalty voucher of a certain value per customer/month? I remember trying and failing to use a second $25 voucher in the same month.

Did you buy it? I was looking at this, too, but I wasn't that impressed from the samples on the site. And I couldn't find a decent review, either.

Hard to tell, Izotope had a lot of sales of all kind in the past few months. It's not very likely that it will become more expensive though, so if you're not in a rush, wait. BF and holiday sales are just around the corner.