From my e-mail:

A personal note - and a
FREE NEW plugin for you!

I know we have been sending you a lot of emails all year long in 2020. Offering you new plugins, new "deals", new services, tips & tricks, sessions and so on. But once in a while I like to just reflect upon the status of our companies and simply send a sincere and personal THANK YOU.

Why? Because YOU enable our various teams in Europe, Asia and the US to do what we love the most - and make a living out of it, even in challenging times.

PA has come a long way in the few years since we launched in 2012 with just under 10k users at that time. Your loyal business over the years and the fact that by now literally millions of our plugins are being used on roughly a million of your machines in professional studios, arenas (soon again we all hope!), bedrooms and garages means the world to all of us at PA and our 30+ international partner companies.

You know just as well as I do that the world has been a crazy mess for the most part during the last year or so, especially for the live music and event industries, and - please - let's not even go into politics at this point. I feel for all my friends and all of our users who are going through hard times because of Covid, the various restrictions and, in many cases, the resulting financial crises for so many. I guess we are simply lucky (and certainly very thankful!) for running a business that seems to be pretty resistant to the current crisis / crises.

While emotionally exhausting and operationally challenging (a big thank you to all our teams for adapting to home-office mode so rapidly last year!), financially PA had a very successful year. It feels a bit weird to say that in public given the circumstances, but I thought a bit of good news can't hurt in tough times. And I am sure many of you will appreciate the fact that PA will continue to go strong and deliver the goods you all seem to love going forward for sure!

So, with all that said, it is my absolute pleasure to announce that you ALL will receive a voucher code email tomorrow which will give you a brand new commercial plugin - completely for FREE & FOREVER - if you use the code within 30 days! The picture above is a good hint for what's to come.

Thank you for your attention everybody, and as always, if you have questions you know you can talk directly to me in our PA Audiophiles group on facebook. I am trying my best to answer as many posts and questions as possible. Please be patient and understand that at peak times I may not always be able to do that. You're simply tooooo many for that by now, and I love it! We do have tons of great users though who are helping other users with questions or who are happy to discuss all things PA. And we are happy to say that we have a very POSITIVE spirit in that group. Please join us on Facebook, you're very welcome!

So, thank you again, and happy mixing & playing in what will hopefully be a "much better 2021" for all.

Please stay safe everybody!

Dirk



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So if you're not on the mailing list, perhaps join up. Vouchers are being sent out tomorrow.

 

An Ampeg

 

Looks like an ampeg svt-cl from the photo. So it's that or some other bass amp being given away. They still haven't ported over the GK 800rb yet, so maybe that's a possibility as well? Either way, looking forward to it!

 

I have no clue about amps. It's my understanding this is mostly for guitar players, right? Do I have any use for this if I don't play or process guitar?

 

Lindell Audio 50 Series (4 free) would be appreciated, Dirk.

 

Nope, Ampeg is for basses.

 

@No Avenger
Ok, so does that mean, it's for bass guitars, or what kind of bass do you mean, are you talking about bass tracks in general, whether it's synth bass or Bass (string instrument) etc?

 

The image from the email is Dirk standing in front an ampeg svt-cl bass amp. The OP is missing that part of the context. It's implied that it's for bass guitar.

 

Ah, you haven't seen the pic:



On the other hand, I see no reason not to run a synth bass through it.

 

for that, we have to wait like six months.... i think it can be for one of the existing ones like 80 series or any other old one

 

doesn't matter what plugin is, it's free and it's from plugin alliance so it must be good or decent at least

 

Thanks guys. I guess I'll get it of course, but the fact that I have no clue what a bass amp even does probably means I won't have any use for it anytime soon :p But cool of Dirk to hand out a free plugin anyway!

 

interesting

 

What if he pulls a fast one and puts out a V-4 model though?

 

I'd shit bricks if they did.

 

hmm... i have not received any emails of this kind - only the usual discount emails.

 

I can't wait, with 2 darkglass emulations, parallax, mammoth & now this? The bass amp plugs are what's keeping me from demoing all the great guitar amp plugs at a faster pace.

I might just develop a damn near lisp then always have to talk like thith because I don't sleep. I just slap my bass & pretend my life still exists. Going to turn my life into an endless Seinfeld diss.

 

Channel 2 of The Classic Ampeg Sound!
The new Ampeg SVT-VR "Classic" plugin!


Channel 2 of The Classic Ampeg Sound!
The new Ampeg SVT-VR "Classic" plugin produces the same authentic bass tone as the original SVT-VR but limited to one channel (actually, Ch 2) and the essential features - for incredible simplicity and ease of use. This plugin is $99 MSRP, but we’re giving it away for free during the first 30 days. Grab your copy now!

 

If I install the PA license manager but am still demoing a couple of their products will it void them out or call home? I read around the forum that some programs do that. I really want this but don't want to lose access to plugs I haven't bagged on my list yet.

 

You need to put both kind of licenses on different drives. E.g. 'demos' from sister on internal HD, official on USB.