Quick *unexpected* update
In my efforts to get the VST3 working in Cakewalk Bandlab ..... I uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times ... and it
finally worked for about 25 minutes before it crashed / locked up Cakewalk Bandlab ... needing a hard re-boot ... cant remember the last time I needed to do that
..... anyway ....... that's not my point / concern ..... reliability will
doubtlessly come with time ....
I recorded some basic guitar .... set the track to Loop and messed with the Controls and found a *
very unexpected* thing.
The "input [gain]" seemed to operate well.
But the Bass / Middle / Treble ...
but especially the Bass and Middle responded
absolutely nothing like ... Tonex ... !!
So what I hear you think ? Why do I mention this ? Who gives a f&ck ?
Well ......because one of the absolutely great things IK have
got right with Tonex - and I have no idea how they have done it - is that
unlike the KPA ... adjusting the Tonex G/B/M/T/P changes the sound [obviously]
but it keeps the core tone and uniqueness of the Amp Capture intact.
This current 0.7.1 VST version [ I've no idea if this is a
new EQ Stack being used ? ] ... is quite
honestly and genuinely worse than even the KPA implementation ..... even smallish adjustments to the Bass and especially the Mids really made the Capture sound increasingly "out of whack" / very "changed" from the original Capture ... the Treble control is a better but still not "ideal".
The Tonex "eq" implementation is very musical and natural and "seems related" to the specific core Captured sound - you can adjust to pretty much any setting and the sound is still "in the Captures ball-park" ... it
almost feels like you are adjusting the actual Amp controls ..
even though of course you aren't because its "just" a Post or Pre-Capture EQ.
The Amps too felt surprisingly and unexpectedly "stiff" compared to the Tonex ....
but that's another point entirely.
The aliasing on lower gain amps - which are bloody near impossible to find - is really
not pretty .... NAM desperately needs some really accurate oversampling
a.s.a.p .... but again,
that's another point entirely.
I
was going to post this in "the other place" and/or on the FB group where I am a "lurking member" under a different name .... but in either place, I have no doubt I would be howled down as a Tonex-shill-fan-boi-NAM-hating-heretic ... such is the "hype and heat" of
some / quite a few of the current NAM "evangelists".
Anyway ..... just putting it here f.w.i.w ..... I think Steve ? or someone *really* needs to completely re-do the current NAM EQ Stack so it is
guitar frequency focused .... or frankly .... just copy the way IK have done it !
If you have Tonex and NAM .... run each as VST in a track ..... use a similar'ish amp for each and the same IR for each ..... loop-toggle between them whilst messing with the Tonex EQ and then the NAM EQ .... it will be obvious very quickly.
Then again ... maybe my ears a totally f&cked ..... but I doubt it
:)
All the best to all,
Ben
tonehunt.org
