Reply To: S-Gear for $79

[Cecelius2]

I still love S-Gear!  S-Gear is still my first choice to try out some new ideas both in the DAW environment and just as a standalone.  But to be honest this is my reason–  It is very familiar to me, and has a very low CPU hit and i think that the “cleans” still sounds very good (at least to my aging ears).

I use S-Gear mainly for clean and early close to breakup tones.  It is quick, fast to load. And still sounds great for Fender and Dumble clean tones.

Having said this, I am now using Tonex (desktop version) more and more.  Why? Tonex has dropped in price and is very affordable now.  Also Tonex has a great 3rd party community with hundreds of captures out there.  Tonex has many more options.  Many captures are free, (some a great, some are good, some are horrible). I find myself using Tonex for “Matchless cleans” and “Dumble/2Rocks cleans and early breakup tones.

S-Gear does have “The Duke” which is a great clean dumbleesque amp and is easy to adjust and dial in with low CPU.  But some of the Tonex 3rd party Dumble/2Rocks captures are just great and are more and more convincing.

Given that Tonex is now very affordable and easy to find cheap & free 3rd party captures (and some expensive and Great), I suspect that many if not all of the VST Amp modelling Sims will be fighting to stay in business just to compete with Tonex.  I am actually really surprised that S-Gear has not had to offer more sales just because of Tonex is so affordable and so convincing and has a growing and versatile 3rd party capture community

Sorry–if this has drifted off topic.

SO–S-Gear is still GREAT.  This $79 is the lowest price i have seen in years.  I probably paid that much for it (10+ years ago!).

Still Great, still usable, still realistic to play!  I still use it

C2

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