Some Eventide sales:
Elevate Mastering Bundle $99
I had one of these H3000s back in the 90s
My drummer had a Slayer album on a 33 RPM record
He used my H3000 so he could speed the record up to 45 RPM while shifting it back down to normal pitch
Resulting in the fastest speed metal album ever 
I was looking for a good multiple IR loader
This one got good wraps,
looks easy to run and has a lot of modules like EQs/Impedance/Normaliser/Visualiser
$7.99 USD for an unspecified time, down from $35USD
FREE frequency analyser from TDM
Gets good wraps, like replacing SPAN
This new IR loader is apparently the best one now
Auto-alignment for multiple IRs
Has a match EQ type thing in it too
Intro price $69 USD
(I havenāt used it or even watched these videos yet)
Good catch Bevo, I use their plugs on every project these days, cheers
Not to be a dirty temptress, but T-Racks 5 Max is $100 right now. Total Studio Max 4 is $270.
I was looking for a mixing plugin bundle to start tinkering with some recording again, which is laughable given my little free time alone to work on anything much. For someone who does have time, that looks like pretty sweet prices.
I bit on Total Studio Max, and Iām tinkering with Tonex and Amplitube at the moment. Man, some of the amp profiles included in Tonex just completely murder everything in Amplitube. IK shouldnāt even be selling Amplitube with models anymore. 
They are really that bad by comparison.
Are you using Tonex inside of Amplitube?
I guess they have to keep the models in for backwards compatibility maybe
Should probably just amalgamate both into one and have options for either/both in the price plan
But I guess running Tonex inside Amplitube is similar
I wonder if theyāll incorporate NAM like Tonocracy
Yea, there is the option to run a Tonex block in place of a model block in Amplitube. At this point I donāt know why any company is still doing straight up amp modeling. If you ask me, that battle is over.
Hopefully at some point someone will work out how to make machine learning feasible for dynamic aspects of amps, speakers, and effects. Modeled effects really stick out right now to about the same degree as amp modeling does compared to profiled amps, lacking detail and depth and clarity. It feels like everything is back to square 1 with profiling, and Iām hoping to see things develop further.
I saw this stroby tuner recommended, it looks excellent, works well for downtuned basses which isnāt easy
It tracks a bass all the way down to low D here (an octave under dropped D)
$20USD, or free with ads in the header bar
So, free to try unlimited
(ilok but you can activate to the pc instead, so donāt need a physical ilok)
Been a minute since Iāve bought any plugins
This SSL guitar and bass channel strip bundle is a decent sale tho
$35 USD for the pair, compared to the normal $200 each
They look decent and got some good reviews from the little Iāve read
Well, it is a neat trick for a company that sells channel strips, to sell more channel strips dedicated to certain instruments!
But if there are workflow benefits, hey, whatever works.
Iām actually in the middle of putting together a Protools with SSL controllers and plugins studio for TAFE NSW in Coffs Harbour.
Weāre running a HDX card, two MTRX Studio units for I/O, three UF8 8 channel motorized control surfaces, with one UC1 pluging controller and one UF1 master fader and transport control.
Using a Fusion Studio Works desk. Modified version of one of these.
The basic mode of operation is every channel with the SSL native channel strip plugin controlled by the dedicated matching control surface.
So you end up with one of these being your default eq and dynamics controller.
to go with the plugin:
In the analog world SSL consoles were about being much cleaner than Neve, etc., with the bus compressor being the main attraction. Reason has an SSL console emulation, and when that version that included the SSL emu came out some users on the now defunct Reason forum were claiming that it had a sound to it. I did null tests and posted about it back then. Aside from the preset eq curves, it nulled with straight in.
Achieving higher fidelity was what most of the industry was about until people started getting nostalgic about old gold electronics, when in reality it was more to do with good talent and good songs and good rooms and good instruments and good microphones put in the right places.
Donāt even get me started on the whole tubes make everything sound better thing.
Well, go ahead then. 
There is good reason why despite being at the height of technology, tubes in audio are still a major thing.
Iām more interested in transformers than tubes in the whole āmake it sound like it used toā side of things.
Besides, by default they solve a set of other problems that prevents things from sounding as good as they should.
Is Tonex the best amp vst?
Tonewise its between Tonex and NAM
The Two Notes Genome looks like the best software to me, and can host NAM
@brainio can tell you whatās shit about tonex
@Snookoda uses Genome
Tonex also has a pedal that runs the same tone models as the software, can run on your phone or tablet as well, and possibly has a bigger marketplace
I went to open it on my laptop to take a look, and it is magically missing. Thatās a start to the complaints. I donāt really use it on my laptop, but I have a few times. And it was installed.
Iām updating from IKās Product Manager now to hopefully then open it and take a lookā¦
tldr; Crap product manager / licensing junk, slow loading, crap browser, spartan features.
I got it up, and of course my favorited profiles were gone. So weāre starting from scratch.
Iām only still using Tonex loaded in Amplitube for routing, the cabs, a feature for mixing in some DI from the profile into the final output, and the occasional effect. Otherwise I would be using NAM with an IR loader. I would recommend that no one buy Tonex standalone. But if it is included in a package with Amplitube, itās not too awful using it inside Amplitube.
