Reply To: What Deals Have You Picked Up This Black Friday Season?

[RoyalYaksman]

For me it was all guitar noises and drums:

Bogren Digital MLC Subzero Bundle 100 + 93 (€‎74)

Bogren Digital 100 Years of Beyerdynamic IR Pack (€‎19)

ML Sound Lab Amped Volcano (€‎22)

ML Sound Lab Reflex IR Andro 64 (€‎9)

BFD Dark Farm ($20)

BFD Modern Rock Grooves ($15)

I purchased the BFD stuff from Plugin Boutique, so I also got IK’s Mixbox and Lunacy Audio Time as freebies.

Even though I have heaps of amp sims, I made the mistake of trialing the full MLC amps from Bogren and just couldn’t get past how much I like the attack on the amps. Even when you have a pile of gain going on you can pick through notes with the amp raging, and the notes all stick out with clarity. It is of course similar to some of the better amp offerings by other developers, but every time I would A/B and flick to this amp it would stand out. Not necessarily better, but different enough for me to wince, grimace, exhale slowly with a shake of my head, and crack out the wallet to buy the damned things.

I didn’t really need the ML stuff, but the Volcano amp is a good one and I like to purchase from them now and then to support them as I own both Mikko plugins.

And as for the BFD Dark Farm purchase, I also didn’t really need more drums, but this library has some vibe that grabbed me. Most of my other many kits are obviously recorded very well and have a room sound. But that room sound is generally a neutral one with the idea being that then you can color it any way that you want. But the room sound of this kit has a bit of character to it. You can hear that it is recorded in a big wooden space and gets that fantastic “womp” in the decay that heaps lashings of real room vibe all over it. Probably won’t work for everything. But when you need an undeniable real room kit, this is nice option to slather some heavy percussive ambience into your track. Only drawback is that this kit downloads at an absolute crawl. So slowly in fact, that there has to be a problem with the server that they have it on.

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