Recent content by dominus_malas

Just wait for the SDX version then. The EZXs are pre-mixed with less samples. Maybe we'll see the Colin Richardson SDX next month.

Sure. A company releases 24 products a certain way, and then changes the way they do things with the 25th. I think people would be a little disappointed with the company. As for cost to make it, I don't think that has changed all that much since the last one. If the studio space was a lot...

Well then. Considering I have my own E-Kit I don't mess with MIDI grooves too often, but still. That's pretty damn low. :hahamiddlefinger: Toontrack.

Do you have a link where it states that? They've always had the MIDI packs sold separately for people that just want those but the full pack comes with the expansions.

I use 56-13s on my Blackjack C1s, haven't bothered filing the nuts on them. I found the 59N to be a little boomy in the neck and the JB to have that weird mid-spike. Installed a set of Black Winters into one, will probably go with D-Activators in another one, and a Nazgul/Jazz in the third.

Why does he have to improve his real life micing skills? That amp is a perfect candidate for running into impulses. OP asked why or why not, and I'm someone that has the *exact* experience that he's looking for. Your answers are based on experience with trying (and failing) to use the amps live...

Decapitated and Cannibal Corpse (Crate), Suffocation (Ampeg), Death (Marshall Valvestate), and quite a few others.

It looks like he's in the UK, not the USA, and even here a 4x12 cabinet is worth $100. I own Recabinet and X50 (and just about all the rest of the amp sims)... I still use solid state heads because amp sims seem to focus on emulating tube amps and sometimes you just want solid state...

Last I checked, free was less than $100. Also the Crate will sound better than the Metal Zone (which has only a few sweet spots that you have to dig for), and give him a solid state clean sound as well as a brutal distortion sound, and probably a few things in between.

Not to mention he's paying $120 for a head and cabinet. He can probably sell the cabinet for the same price and use the head as a solid state preamp for free.

As someone that has a collection of pretty much all the "metal" solid state amps (off the top of my head a Randall RG, a couple of Marshall Valvestates (8x00 and VS100), an Ibanez TBX150, H&K Warp, Peavey XXL, a few Crates, and a couple more), the Crate will give you *good* tones if you record...

Don't bother mic'ing it up. Run the effects loop send into the computer and add a power amp sim and cab sim. (If it doesn't have separate send and return for the effects loop, look for a jack that's labeled "insert". That's a TRS jack for the loop. Get a TRS to dual TS splitter. I *think* the...

Yup, I briefly considered Skylake, saw the prices, and it's almost a "sidegrade" rather than an upgrade from Haswell.

If you bought 4.0, you're entitled to a free upgrade to 5.0 (all the way up to version 5.99). If you bought 3.0, you got a upgrade to 4.0 but then your license doesn't extend any farther than version 4.99. Yes, you can still use it with a nag screen if your license doesn't cover 5.0

Yeah, but you got all updates of 3 and 4 for your first $60, right? 3.0 – May 22, 2009 4.0 – August 3, 2011 5.0 – August 12, 2015 Even if you bought 3.0 right before 4.0 came out in 2011, your license was good for at least 4 years. (Still is of course, but moving forward you'd probably...