LOL, your the one following him around from thread to thread expressing your awful dumb opinion that in the end has no real basis .
Dude, I posted in this thread before Slate, and I only responded to it because the person who made the thread wanted opinions about a plugin I own. I gave my honest opinion, and if you go back and actually read it, nowhere in my post did I say "FG-X sucks." I said what I thought about Ozone, because other people in the thread had been talking about it as an alternative.
The reason you came into the thread and started bashing me is because you are a Slate fan boy, and you were annoyed that people were suggesting an alternative over a Slate product you recently payed for. Guess what, I payed for it too... but I don't try to defend each and everything I buy. I give my real opinions to people who want them, because some of us like to think for ourselves and not spend our money based on hype/marketing. This is a public forum. We are free to express our opinions. If you don't feel that I'm qualified to have a meaningful opinion, then ignore what I say. It's really that simple. There are definitely plenty of people on this forum who have opinions I don't care about...
...but just for the record, telling me my opinions are stupid and have no basis is ridiculous. You don't know me, you have no idea how much I've tested/used the plugins I talk about, and you have no idea what kind of skill level I'm at. Some of us have busy, complicated, money-sucking lives. Some of us focus on playing an instrument(s), and not all of us here are trying to make a career out of recording/mixing music. No offense to people who are, of course... It would be an awesome way to make a living, but it's not feasible for all of us at the moment.
Everyone calm the fuck down. I'm too lazy at the moment to go back and read Josh's initial post, but IIRC, I read it simply as "Ozone is a tool that can be used to make pro mixes," not "FG-X sucks" or anything.
As for my personal opinion, I only bought FG-X because of the group buy. I would not have purchased it at $299. I demoed it, and honestly, it didn't sound any better to me than Voxengo Elephant. In fact, I was one of the first to notice the crackling/distortion artifacts, and one of my mixes was used to improve the ITP algorithm for the FG-X update. The update certainly improved things, but I still notice FG-X crackling occasionally, and I do hear it coloring/saturating the mix occasionally, when other loudness plug-ins don't. Ok, I can automate ITP, but that's pretty tedious, especially if it doesn't sound better than other plug-ins (to me, I guess). Furthermore, when I sent test masters to other audio engineers, I don't think they ever preferred FG-X over Elephant when the test was blind.
It sounds silly, but I bought FG-X because of all the rave reviews I read (plus the dropped price), even though it didn't sound that special to me during the demo period. I was hoping maybe as I used it I would see what everyone was talking about, and it's glory would reveal itself to me, but this is yet to happen. No disrespect to anyone intended - I'm just being completely honest, and this is just my opinion. Maybe I'll see the beauty of FG-X in the future, but I never had issues with buried snares in my mixes when I used traditional limiting, and now I'm constantly worried about distortion/crackling. It still gets great reviews from others - I just read one in SOS earlier today. Said it was amazing for rock/metal, though doesn't necessarily suit all material, and doesn't always "fail elegantly" when it does fail (like long sustained bass notes).
Bingo. Completely agree, and I'm pretty sure there are a number of other regular posters on this forum who share roughly the same opinion.
I've kept FG-X until now because it was a good deal, because I know a lot of other people like it, and because I think it's pretty cool on more rock/pop oriented music, but it just doesn't blow me away like I originally thought it would, especially if we're talking about using it on modern metal.
Obviously I'm not the only one who has an opinion like this. Lasse sold his copy, Andy has tried the public beta, but has been using Ozone recently, etc..... and the ONLY reasons why I mention that are:
1. They are very talented people, and produce great sounding, professional albums. I respect them and enjoy the albums they create, so I personally find their opinions to be pretty valuable to me.
and 2. These guys own their own studios and have quite a bit more money to throw around than the average member of this forum. For the most part, they don't have to make compromises with their gear/software. They can use whatever they want to use.
Anyways, I'm done.
