Equipboard Accepted Payments?

Just noticed this today:

https://imgur.com/pRsln0r

Payments for what? What is there to buy here?

You're quite observant! We've soft-launched it, but we're gonna start selling plugins and software :) https://equipboard.com/store

I've purchased from Plugin Boutique and similar. I like the concept, like the experience. LOVE that you're going to put your own spin on it!

This news makes my week!

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what about a gear emproium?

I've purchased from Plugin Boutique and similar. I like the concept, like the experience. LOVE that you're going to put your own spin on it!

I love the boutique and the alliance, mostly solid stuff

what about a gear emproium?

What if Equipboard integrated a Reverb shop?

YEAH!

What if Equipboard integrated a Reverb shop?

Expand on that. What do you mean?

Expand on that. What do you mean?

What I meant is that maybe Equipboard could create a Reverb shop. That could get tricky, though, given that it would be multiple users selling on one account.

Alternatively, a module could be made for users to submit their existing Reverb.com listings to item pages. For example, perhaps they would go to the item page and click a button to fill out a form, in which they would input the listing link. The listing would then appear on the item page as an embedded link. Once sold, the item would automatically switch to the submitter's "Had" list.

This. Yes.

Anything you do should be highly curated. Theres a lot of garbage around in hardware and software... and a lot of affordable workmanlike stuff that gets mo love because it just does the job and gets out of the way.

Also, thumbs up to the brands you've been able to bring onboard thus far: U-he, Eventide, Image Line, D16, Accusonus. Solid lineup!

I doubt it was easy; must have taken most of 2020 to get those deals in place.

I see some Sugar Bytes stuff just got added today too. :)

Also, thumbs up to the brands you've been able to bring onboard thus far: U-he, Eventide, Image Line, D16, Accusonus. Solid lineup!

Seconded.

U-He presswerk is a gem

If the FX section of Repro is any indication, Presswerk is likely a beast.

I'm a big U-he advocate, those guys have the good ears AND the big brains, but I aspire to keep my compressor plugin stable small, and just learn to use 2-3 really really well... or at least learn to apply dynamic processors with as much confidence as I twiddle subtractive synths.

Would you, personally, put Presswerk in your top 3 DSP-based compressors?... or would it fall more under the category of "character" processor for you?

Top 3. Yes. It cna do anything, its configurable in every way.

My top 3 do alls that can handle inserts and busses alike, with or without character are as follows:

1. Presswerk (read the manual)

2. Empirical labs Arouser (YES! I love you Mr Derr!)

3. Arturia dbx 160, my favorite 160/162 simulation. Nails it. Sounds better than a real 160a on everything but kick drum

honorable mention:

Pulgin Alliance Purple Audio 1176

ADHD levelling amp (yup, the free shit, you can dial out the character in places and its a nice slow leveller)

TDR feedback compressor 2 (not v1 and not the one they did that's more for busses, it works but this is fast and effective) and all the compressors on the really good channel strips and great. Brainworx focusrites and Lindell API VCA and FET modules are very effective even ons tereo content. I also like the channelcompressors in Harrison Mixbus 32C. not a lot fo control but they do the business usually for basic jobs. No fuss. Fairly transparent.

Waves Pye compressor

Top 3 pieces of do all gain limiting hardware that's somewhat affordable:

1. Allison Gain Brain (once you invest in the lunchbox these are dead cheap for what you get, they made tons, and you can also house kepex gates!)

2. symetrix 501, 522 and even the 525

3. orban 412 and 422

honorable mention:

alesis 3632 or modded 3630

RNC (the beginners can't fuck it up leanring module)

dbx 163x (one knob of truth)

That's quite an endorsement, Thank you for the knowledge-bomb, Jim! I will study-up. :)

Any experience with DMG Audio Compassion, or current compressors from FabFilter or iZotope?

Given the kinds of process visualization software affords, a big VU meter emulation is not my first choice... I understand why such skeuomorphism is so popular in MI, and I know it's the sound that matters most*, but animations of vintage meters are not my personal/emotional pref, given I have very little time logged with vintage hardware possessing such meters.

*Anyone looking to pull an Obi-Wan and tell me that vintage UI helps you learn to trust your ears over your eyes... spare me, please. Know this already, I do... drive me to the Sith, you will. :)

Any experience with DMG Audio Compassion, or current compressors from FabFilter or iZotope?

Given the kinds of process visualization software affords, a big VU meter emulation is not my first choice... I understand why such skeuomorphism is so popular in MI, and I know it's the sound that matters most*, but animations of vintage meters are not my personal/emotional pref, given I have very little time logged with vintage hardware possessing such meters.

*Anyone looking to pull an Obi-Wan and tell me that vintage UI helps you learn to trust your ears over your eyes... spare me, please. Know this already, I do... drive me to the Sith, you will. :)

honestly I enver look at the vintage VU simulations, they don't act like real ones, they just look pretty...

I do not like any izotope gain reduction for anything but master bus work and then sued sparingly

I don't like fab filter anything/ It all works perfectly and is transparent apart from the distortion which isn't meant to be transparent, but I hate the UI, its almost as annoying as fake VU needles bouncing around incorrectly.... the compressor is my least hated butits similar to the Melda stuff and that's free. If you wanna add character with a non vintage GUI the melda limiter and comrepssor go from clean to mean and everything inbetween but you have to spend time with all the under-the-hood type controls like even order harmonics and time constant envelope curves etc. They cna be made to do virtually anything.... but the UI is not as intuitive as presswek. You just hook up virtual analog modules in rpesswork. I want a tube input stage, a VCA detector and like an 1176 makeup line amp? no problem! Om fab comp and melda stuff you hve to set that stuff by ear using harmonics controls etc and then you can finally comrpess.... or you tweak from a preset (shudder, vomit, collapse)

and also, get Arouser, its not a distressor simulation, its an Arouser, a software comrpessor that couldn't exist in real life, which is so cool. It does the job using the technology it was designed with and it does what it does so well

also look at sonnox oxford everything... like that inflator, I love that, nothing hardware does that. Whatever it is its doing.... its just tasty.

I do not like any izotope gain reduction for anything but master bus work and then sued sparingly

10-4. I don't own any iZotope at the moment, but I've gotten my hands on a few projects where using the various parts of the suite led to great outcomes.

I don't like fab filter anything/ It all works perfectly and is transparent apart from the distortion which isn't meant to be transparent, but I hate the UI

Fair enough. I remember being very excited when they first hit the market in like 2007-ish... as it was like "@#$%, finally", but I didn't gel with the early product demos, both sonically, and in terms of some specifics of the UX and just kind of let it be... but I aim to give them a fair second shake in 2021.

.... or you tweak from a preset (shudder, vomit, collapse)

I was a hardline "no presets" fascist in my 20s... but coming up on this back half of my life, I've aligned more to a quote from a talented veteran musician whose name I've forgotten that I'll paraphrase to something like "the people who make good keyboard presets, that's their job, they put their whole selves into learning the device and getting the best from it... my job as a musician is to play the instrument, and if their present works, I use it. I make great music, making great patches can be someone else's job".

All that said: I'm still gonna roll my own bass synth presets from scratch til the day I die, because @#$& everyone, that's both too important and too simple to not do myself... but one has to respect the amount of care that Korg and Yamaha North America put into getting the original carts/cards of DX7 and M1 presets right (for their target audience of the era) on the first pass. And if anyone on Eric Persing's team has a preset for me to try, I'm gonna listen, listen hard, and not arrogantly assume I could to better without weeks of learning.

(edit: to keep this very minimally on-topic, I will say that U-he does a great job with factory presets... and makers are learning that their synths will live or die by the presets they ship with... but on the whole presets for most new synths could be better)

But for compressor presets... pardon my ignorance, but how the @3$% would that even work? Makers have to ship with presets, or face the consequences in both pro and consumer reviews... but the idea that you'd click a compressor preset that said like "rock drums" and somehow it would be right for whatever mic'd acoustic kit you may be feeding it... without you having to learn the plug inside and out and know what needed to be adjusted to fit the unique qualities of what you were putting into it... IDK... until those working on realtime ML/AI-based magic compressors make something so amazing that the industry is generally won-over, presets on dynamics processors (save for maybe brick wall limiting presets) feel, to me, like they're setting up false expectations for users new to this whole thing.

What am I missing?