Reply To: Softube Acoustic Feedback for a tenner

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On peter said

Being super candid, on a personal level as a plugin users, I really like the Softube plugins that I own.  So seeing this so cheap immediately got my attention.

What immediately gave me pause is that looking at the various posts and just about everyone commenting leaves me with the takeaway that achieving good results with this plugin isn’t easy, and the reality for me is that I really don’t have even passable audio engineering skills. I want tools that enable me to get good results quickly and that clearly isn’t what people feel is this plugin’s strong suit.

Your friend who keeps the beat.

DISCLOSURE: I’ve advised more than 3 dozen sample and plugin developers on branding and marketing strategy. I’ve never been paid to make posts, they reflect my sincere opinions, and I’ve never been an influencer.

Absolutely agree, softube to me is one of the more solid developers out there. This one to me is questionable. Due to the lack of control I’ve been able to get with it, i have at least come close to achieving the “feedback effect” i wanted by bouncing the audio and modifying the pitch and volume curve of the waveform, adding a bit of reverb as well. However I feel like i shouldn’t have to do that outside of the track I’m composing on, especially having paid $40 for it. At this point I have found alternatives out there to get the job done. Heck, I even prefer the feedback-like sound that comes from Beatsurfing’s “Random” plugin, and that is a synth instrument plugin. I primarily use this effect in rock tracks to layer on top of builds/crescendos up to a big chorus or something similar. But i don’t want to spend too much time there. This softube effect plugin takes too much time to dial in for me, and the feedback sound itself sounds doesn’t seem to change much, regardless of the audio source you feed into it. And as we musicians who play electric guitar know, feedback can come in so many variations; what comes out in real life is almost always unique

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