Reply To: Softube Acoustic Feedback $9 + Get AudioThing Crusher FREE w/Code!

[peter]

On Teebacca said

I have it and it’s my number one most regrettable purchase in plugins. Paid $49 for it “On sale” Just a couple years ago? Was looking for a realistic feedback replication since i don’t live in a space to do it loudly with a real guitar amp. This thing is so wobbly and uncontrollable that it’s almost unusable. It sounds like a whale. I’ve had to bounce pieces of what i liked and pitch shift the results in melodyne to morph it into a texture that i layer into the background of a track, which is way more effort than this thing is worth. Every now and then i might hit a sweet spot where i like what it does at a very specific moment, but it’s almost impossible to replicate those moments even with automation because the results are so random. It makes sense why it’s $9 now . I can go on but i know there are some die hard softtubers out there who might feel like disagreeing with me. If that’s you, please tell me what I’m doing wrong as i want so bad for this to be a usable plugin

I’m wondering, is the difference between my experience — the SOS reviewer’s experience — and the majority of people from major forums and groups that posted about this that we’re using guitar sample libraries and you and MrFigg are using real electric guitars?

I sent Greg Schlaepfer from Orange Tree Samples a DM about it, to get his thoughts, as I was using it on Evolution Rock Standard — which already has feedback in it. Now, from your uncontrollable remark, you described what I experienced with the “Wild” setting, but the standard setting was well controlled. I loved what it did, and I ended up buying it ($6 with my Deal Bucks or whatever that store calls them). But I can’t help but wonder if the big difference is that I’m using a sample library and probably much more controlled dynamics than you and MrFigg with actual real guitars.

As far as its price, this plugin was released nearly 20 years ago. Softube, like many other plugin developers that have been around a long time, tends to put their older plugins and very deep discount. For example, their Spring Reverb, which I picked up a few years ago for around ten bucks.

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