galaxiebewohner's Reviews

Tons of plugins for my DAW

my audio interface came with 'One Studio Artist'. In other words, the light version, which is completely sufficient for me. But I was missing a good guitar modeling plugin suite. Guitar Rig or Amplitube, it didn't matter, the main thing was affordability. Then I came across an offer at Thoman on IK Multimedia Total Studio 4 Max at a price I couldn't resist. To make a long story short. In addition to AmpliTube, I also got TONEX, MODO Drums, MODO Bass and various other instrument, mixing and mastering plug-ins that complement my DAW in a meaningful way for roughly the same price. In particular, if you want to profile your amps, pedals and cabs, you should definitely try Tonex. All plug-ins included in the package are the full version.

AmpliTube 5 MAX v2 ARC System 3.5 Hammond B-3X Lurssen Mastering Console Miroslav Philharmonik 2 MixBox MODO DRUM 1.5 MODO BASS 2 SampleTank 4 MAX v2 SampleTron 2 Syntronik 2 MAX v2 T-RackS 5 MAX v2 TONEX MAX

Fantastic value for money

Budget is a big factor for a hobby musician like me in Moon Price Nation. The local shops here are full of different JBL's, most of them cableless, or even cheaper brazilian Brands. If you are from Brazil and read this, trust me, better not by anthing and safe your money for another month than ever by anything from Multilaser. Never ever!

I was looking for a pair of studio headphones for audio recording and guitar practicing. They therefore had to have a cable (at least 2m long), be closed and comfortable to wear. Unfortunately, these are things that are difficult to try out when buying online ("We don't have free return policy here"). So I looked at tests on youtube and compared the usual prices here with my budget.

In the end, I was left with a few headphones (e.g. from OneOdio, AKG, AudioTechnica). In the end, I chose Presonus because the HD9 met my own specification and was available at a reasonable price. Besides, I still hope that Presonus has tuned the sound of their headphones to their own audio interfaces.

I am very happy with my decision. The HD 9 sits comfortably, even for several hours, and the sound has fully met my expectations. The build quality seems to be good. After a few weeks, I can't yet say how the headphones will cope with the climate here.

Overall cheap

Unfortunatly for some time this was the only 'non blutooth' headphone, for sell in my city. Well, it is cheap, in terms of price as well as in terms of quality. It might not make a big difference as long as you only listen to Taylor Sheeran or Ed McSwift on your telephone, but as studio headphones? hahahahahah

I'm living in a tropic oceanside place, what means it is hot, humid and salty. This means that the headphone's foam cushions will start peeling usually in about 6-10 months.

Quality: 1/10 Wearing Comfort 3/10 Sound: 3/10

Good value vor the money

Because I could not get my Amp working with ASIO4ALL and Cakewalk, I decided to add an Audio Interface to my equipment, what honestly seemed to be a good idea. My Latency shrunk a lot and the PreSonus Device has all features which I need in my tiny home studio. In it's price range (prices here in Brazil are moon prices) there were not many alternatives available here and beside it was one of the few with a volume meter it came with the best software Bundle. I imediatly liked Studio One more than Cakewalk, no matter that it is only the Artist version which is not really usable for mastering. Unfortunatly I could not get hands on a better headphone than entry level JBL's so I'd actually not want to give you a serious answer about it's sound quality yet.

EDIT: I forgot a very usefull feature which seems to be highly unrecognized. It has MIDI IN/OUT what might be very usefull if you want to use f.e. a Behringer FCB 1010 with your DAW without attaching an additional MIDI-to-USB cabel.

*But the headphone number goes to eleven. Well, it's one louder, isn't it? *

Low Budget Practice Amp

Not Valve? You shouldn't do that? Of course the playability and the sound of the amp. But if you play with not to much budget, you get sooo much for your money. Firstable, the amp is that loud that I can hardly play it without headphones at home. 2nd, you get a bunch of different sounding amps and effects on it and they are all accessable via phone app or as presets with the footswitch which to buy I'd highly recommand. It has USB and Bluetooth connection which gives you the oportunity to play along to songs or youtube guitar lessons.