No dude I like my imaginary great plugs....You also seem to be attached to them, cause for someone who talks about forgetting them, well you surely obsess about those...Clearly. Nah. I don't think it's hate, just a lot of love but you won't let it out, let it out dude, embrace the cult. Side note : how many devs dare to step here on our forum to talk products, protections schemes and not for threatening litigation because we talk about crack regarding its products ? Huh ? how many have the freaking balls ? You wouldn't have your little window to spread hate, if this guy didn't have the guts to do so. I can respect a dude like that. Specially if he makes unique awesome plugins. Stick to your algo if your ears tells you there is no difference. You probably shouldn't use AA plugs, great tools deserve talent. At least you'll stop giving yourself ulcers, with all this freaking anger.
Thank you for replying. Hope your not pissed at me for saying your plugins need cracked. :P I would be MUCH happier if I could use Aquarius to uninstall a plugin and "deauthorize", thus re-opening a license slot so I could move plugins between computers without having to contact Acustica support. But it still requires an Internet connection and a server's existence to work. A person like me isn't completely happy with any kind of DRM. :P
Yes, it is 2019. And yet there is no internet connectivity at my home. (Yeah, satellite which by all accounts isn't very good.) I live no more than 25 miles from a city of ~45,000 in the US. As a result, I had to bring my production computer to work in order to install Ceil. Mind you, I was only willing to do this due to Ceil being free. But yeah, I say this to illustrate that it's really rather commonplace for folks to not have available internet at their studio. Even in 2019. There are several good ways to do this using some Henry Olonga presets and Nebula. Can't play through it though. Big time latency.
I've tested HO amp presets and I have to say I'm not impressed. His mojo series are really good, but all amps seem to be super thin, don't have low end, don't have any character and sounded pretty flat for a Nebula library, at least for me
The best results (by far) I achieved regarding "amping in the box" was using the best algo amps I could find (pretty subjective) and putting them through Ownhammer's Nebula Cabs. Yes, it's not a big collection, it's Marshall 4x12 cabs only, but there are various combinations of speakers and mics.
Totally agree. If you can't record an actual amp, this is the best way. I've also dabbled with the AE cabs which has some Mesa's in it. I've used the Olonga stuff mainly for cleaner type emulations. (JC-120, Fender Twin, etc.) Also, the GK Bass stuff he did sounds really great. But I have always been a big Gallien-Kruger fan. Doesn't mirror what I've experienced, but I'm not using them in any hi-gain or distorted type situation. Is this with a guitar DI, or virtual guitar instrument? Apologies, I know this discussion is off topic.
I love OH cabs, the Nebula ones are fantastic, it's a shame there's only that one Marshall available at the sister's site. I saw a video of a guy on YT from 2015, he uses a setup similar to that, and the sound is awesome, I have it saved on my favorites:
The thread's original topic was resolved anyway, so it's ok I used it like a cab impulse, since I only have a Vox and a Marshall (I think?) that I got from the sister's site, I ran a clean tone through it. The path was: DI > chorus plug-in (the one from Kuassa, I think) > S-Gear on a clean setting (cab section turned off) > OH Vox/Marshall preset The result was a very thin sound, I didn't like it, I was way better of with OH and Redwirez impulses
IF possible, definetely far, far away. For many reasons: - AA latency is not what a tracking guitarist would consider "acceptable". - They have only been able to model "light" saturation so far. - Their plugnis are expected to work at 0dbU, which is hardware threshold. But on guitar amps you willingly surpass that tresshold as far as you want, adding more and more gain stages (pedals, preamps) if you like. This might complicate things a lot. Still, current ampsim bottleneck at this time is cabinet modelling. There's a limit on how far IRs can go, and they're still missing dynamics, non-linearities, etc. An Aqua cabinet modelling suite with minimum latency would actually be VERY interesting, and much more possible.
Interesting point, what did people do before the internet? Do people still go to Guitar center to buy slate digital? Do they even have guitar center over yonder? Retailers don't usually stock a variety of softwares because the profit margins aren't high anyway. Not sure but your plight might be more with Elon musk who's rocket accidentally blew up Zuckerberg's satellite which was supposed to be a step towards universal internet or something like that, I'm probably wrong though. regardless I'm guessing softwares end up reaching you through tubes one way or the other?
Sorry for the late reply. I noticed this too. You've got to reduce the hell out the input on the OH presets, then pull the output up so as not to overdrive the nebula engine. Then just put a gain plugin after Nebula and bring the level back up. Once you get them gain staged right, they sound pretty good. I had to do something similar with the AeternusEternus cab presets. If you're looking for some different cabs to try, 3rd post down on this page has some links. The AE cabs are Mesa's, Peavey's, Marshall's, even a Krank Rev! https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6398569 If you look at the "PRO TIP" on this page, he talks about adjusting the output pad setting of nebula. Default is -30 which would explain the low output volume of the preset. http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/aes-new-nebula-thread.494288/
