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What's the best software for stem separation? I mean, it terms of getting consistent results fast.

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You can run them in parallel and equalize three bands at once!

I've been toying with an idea of upgrading stock ceramic pickups on a cheap Squire Telecaster to alnico. It's a throw-away instrument, so I'm reluctant to make any investments into it, unless it proves absolutely necessary. Spoiler alert: it doesn't. I went through dozens of YT videos, comparing alnico and ceramic single coils. Then studied bode plots of both designs. Since I wanted a personal first-hand experience, I went to a local music store with a portable recording setup and recorded pricey teles with alnico pickups. As you might have already guessed, the pricier guitars sounded better -- more defined and snappy -- in the mix. That is, compared to the cheap Squire. Then I decided to apply an FR as seen on bode plots to the stock Squire pickups using a simple EQ. Guess what! I'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference in a blind test. On the other hand, I've been experimenting with Roland/Boss V-Guitar technology, which models different pickups and instruments. The end result, however, depends on the construction of the instrument, hosting a GK pickup or a similar system. If the modeled instrument is similar to the hosting one in construction (body type, scale, string gauge), then the modelling works as expected. It is very easy to transform Ibanez to Strat or Tele with Roland's V-guitar. But, in order to get good acoustic emulation out of that system, the hosting guitar must have heavy gauge strings installed, because that slinky-spanky character of the lighter gauge strings cannot be dialed out with just modelling. In other words, I think that this plugin should be able to successfully mimic various pickup EQ curves. But I wouldn't expect it to transform your instrument into something completely different.

You were looking for a particular color. It doesn't imply that. And I agree, that they are not equal. They are equally good, however, because all emulations are based on particular prototypes, and the prototyped hardware units are not equal in many aspects.

Although, the question was not addressed to me, hope you don't mind me sharing my 2 cents. UAD emulations are top-notch. Period. However, this doesn't mean that other plugins don't sound as good or unable to beat UAD plugins in features. Unless one is looking for a particular color (or believes that somehow plugins, that emulate hardware that was used to record smashing hits, can help with creating another smashing hit, since we all need a source of inspiration, right?), that person is all set with what he already has.

Works fine on Linux, though.

This TONEX is unbelievable! I never knew that people actually want a chromatic tuner tone profile in their signal chains, yet here we are.

If I had to pick just one word to describe the sound character of AA amp-sims, that would be "grainy". Sometimes it's exactly what you need, sometimes it's too much, but the grainy character is always there. I also recommend to check out their cab packs. My favorite so far is Chromeless (based on Matchless). It sounds awesome and can be used across multiple genres.

I think Bandlab/Cakewalk should do whatever it takes to keep the product up to date and relevant, as well as stay in the business.

Akela didn't miss. He had other things to chase.

In other words, it's Gibson that owes us a lifetime of cakewalk, whatever that means.

From FAQs on the main page: Sounds like it's already released on membership basis.

Maybe they now have to take LUNA into consideration? ?‍?️

This company has already got all most popular amps modeled, but I think that most users don't really need another take on Fender/Marshall/Vox/MB amp. I like that they started adding unique pieces of gear. Hope, they will keep on modelling amps like this one.

Judging by the size (each of these come with only 45MB of samples) I didn't expect it to be any good. In fact, these instruments are way more usable than most bigger and more detailed libraries. How is this possible? NB! By "usable" I mean just playing and using a general MIDI controller keyboard (mine is semi-weighted M-Audio Oxygen). With better keyboards and/or for production purposes, you might want full versions of these instruments or just use what you already have and are happy with.

Spinning Gold is an excellent movie about that era in the music industry.

I tried it on as many sources as seemed reasonable, including sampled instruments like drums. The EQ section is designed for plucked and strummed acoustic instruments, but other sections work well with basically anything. As MrFigg pointed out, you might not need it, that is, unless you like what it does to your tracks and the simplicity of the workflow. IME, I like it even with sampled acoustic guitars. NB! We all approach working with software from different perspectives. I am more of a creator than engineer, and would rather keep things simple to stay in the flow. YMMV.

I finally was able to test these fivers. Honestly, I didn't expect anything spectacular, but MorphVerb and QuickAG proved to be too good to pass by. No wonder, Fleer mentioned this reverb plugins so much. Might not be your most transparent reverb, but it's light on CPU, very easy to use and enables users to create unique soundscapes in just a few seconds.

I was not making it up. That's what a pop-up message stated.

Scheduled maintenance. Nothing to worry about. https://status.ilok.com/

I figured, that endlessly scrolling through available presets was counterintuitive for my workflow. EZMix 3 looks a bit more promising. However, instrument categories shown on its page indicate that the plugin is rock-band centered and might not fit all usage scenarios.

This makes perfect sense. Kudos to FMI/Presonus for creating this upgrade path.

They've been around long enough to know, that money talks. On the other hand, we've been around long enough to know, that it's a two-way street.

They have also reduced number of pedals that comes with free version of AL. Looks like ODX, EQ and two delay pedals are no longer there.