Calibrating Input Level for Plugins

[2dor]

Grown man, my bad

 

[DLC86]

This thread has fired up a discussion between me and another developer I've had contacts with in the recent past, so I invited him to join me on a livestream on my youtube channel to discuss this publicly.

He is Alessandro from APFX Audio and we'll be live tomorrow at 3PM GMT

We will speak Italian but if some of you guys want to chime in we'll try to answer some comments/questions in English too.

ð´ Amp Sim Plugins: LIVELLI OTTIMALI & ALIASING | Live Q&A con Alessandro di APFX Audio

Approfondiamo il tema della calibrazione dei livelli sui plugin per chitarra, argomento caldo su cui ultimamente è nata anche un po' di confusione, cercando ...

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[Sedaxel]

I’m attacking y’all for...

There you have it. Noone is attacking anyone but you and the Devs who say that We mislead or spread false dogmas.

I've got nothing else to discuss with you. Not going to apologize for defending myself.

That said, if someone says something false, I'll point it out... I don't care if you consider it an attack.

 

[valimaki]

I just wish plugin companies would say the spec of their plugin and people can do what they want with that info, its literally that easy. As someone who was hoping that they'd give this information out, it was just a long way of not giving out any information and to just guess / "use your ears bro".

Exactly. I wouldn't buy an audio interface with no specs published by the manufacturer, no one would do that, and I am not buying any guitar amp plugin if I don't know the specs. Before I buy I check the web site and manuals, if I don't find what I am looking for I'll contact support, if I can't get an answer I'll move on, my money their loss. I am tired of companies playing the "accuracy" card and then they don't deliver that accuracy at all. I don't mind a plugin built from scratch with some unique sound not being accurate, but if you mimic a real amp to they point of acquiring the right to use the original brand (Tone King Imperial MKII, Morgan amps, Milkman Creamer, Benson Chimera, Fender collections on Amplitube) it is because you are selling accuracy, and if I am buying accuracy that's what I want.

And no, I don't mind breaking accuracy if I find a tone that I like, but most of the time I am curious about the gear I am playing with and I like to feel and hear how it behaves.

There are lots of benefits you get from calibration, I can create a preset and some else can use it as I intended it to sound like as far as we all have some common ground, I can see a video about someone dialing a plugin and I can get the exact same results, I can work in a project with other guitarists and the settings can be perfectly portable across different systems, if you want the character of a Princeton 65 you can go and pick that amp to get that kind of sound instead of using a triple rectifier because with my settings it sounds like a Princeton 65, etc...