What’s On Your Black Friday Wish List This Year?

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@superrabbit I recently got Pianoverse MAX and absolutely love it. I had high expectations and found it exceeded them. An instant go to that rates up there with Noire, Evolution Rosewood Grand, my two favorites.

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[thesteven]

My BF spending this year has been meager compared to previous years.

Of far I’ve limited myself to

• impOSCar VST3 upgrade ≈ $33 (bought last month)
• XLN Audio – AD2 Custom Collection  at JRR shop $74.76
• AudioDamage Quanta 2 upgrade $20 – has always been $60 (hadn’t planned on getting this but the price hit my FOMO threshold)

Of course there are other things I’d like to pick up (like a NI Komplete Collection upgrade) but the budget sucks this year.

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[thesteven]

On mustakatu said

@fretman, no, the spreadsheet is associated with this video instead:

I tend to think of interface gain staging for recording guitar & bass as applicable to getting a good DI recording.
Unfortunately getting a good recording may not necessarily be the issue with getting a good sound out of an amp sim plugin.

Early Line 6 plugins like Amp Farm or DI Silver/Gold didn’t like hot levels (or even moderate levels). They were programmed to use the meager levels their related DI boxes put out – and feeding the plugin a what should have been a properly gain staged input would overload the plugin killing any dynamics in your playing as well as just sounding like crap.

If you have a good DI recording and your plugin isn’t sounding right – try adjusting the input gain to the plugin (not on the plugin) and see if it requires a lower or hotter signal to hit its sweet spot.

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