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[j.hall]

this ought to be interesting.

http://www.tcelectronic.com/Default.asp?Id=6974

TC Tools' megaverb has been my favorite plug in reverb for a long time.

i finally pickup the plug for dirt cheap on ebay.

i'll gladly take a demo of the system 6000 reverb plug in...that ought to be SICK!

[Fibes]

J. said plug in.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

3 years ago I woulda made sure it wasn't April.

[j.hall]

yeah, sorta sad isn't it?

[Fibes]

j.hall wrote on Tue, 11 October 2005 10:52

yeah, sorta sad isn't it?

Not as sad as me looking at new consoles.

It's just money.

At least it keeps me from wanting PT.

[j.hall]

i'm anxiously awaiting the day i can post something simiar about you buying PT............

[NelsonL]

Seemed like ole Fibes came pretty close there for a while-- hey you got a thread somewhere on this console quest?

Anyway, J. --what can you tell us about megaverb? Versatile or just really good at one or a couple of things?

Aside from using the Wendy Carlos plate all the time in Altiverb, most of my plugin uses are pretty esoteric. I've been using pluggo and guitar rig a lot for texture lately-- but never on guitar... except for the songwriting challenge but that was all DI and soft synths.

 

[Fibes]

j.hall wrote on Tue, 11 October 2005 13:33

i'm anxiously awaiting the day i can post something simiar about you buying PT............

I just can't do it. AAF transfer is working pretty well. If i get a board and sum externally i don't need the ADC on external devices... Personally i'd rather spend the money on a board and/or a better room. I don't think a simple summing box is gonna work for me, if i'm gonna fork out cash i want eq, auxes, busses and real faders. The new Toft console looks interesting, as do the ORAM trident dreams. On the Summing front the Aurora box and EMI box look nice. I'm not sure i have the cash for the Tonelux or API stuff...


Rattleyour,
Try the 250 in Altiverb. it's a great short snare verb. You can get close to the real thing without much effort. The three short impulses are my faves.

[j.hall]

rattleyour wrote on Tue, 11 October 2005 13:46

Anyway, J. --what can you tell us about megaverb? Versatile or just really good at one or a couple of things?

megaverb is an old friend of mine.  i have yet to use a reverb that didn't take a little bit of tweaking to actually get a useable verb.  by useable i mean something that's 75% believable or better.

i want people to think the sounds really were captured that way.  although, i've had plenty of times where i just want things to to be effected in an almost "known" way.  

verb is sort of a sensitive issue with me.  i think it's poorly used on most of the records i've heard.  which isn't to be confused with me saying i'm awesome at using it.

so.....megaverb is an old friend.  we've been in the trenches together many times.  i know what it does and i know how to get exactly what i want.  the presets are really useful as a stepping stone and i like how many colors i can get from the presets i have available.

the tricky thing is this.  i've been hunting and watching the "used" market on megaverb for a long time.....i got a screaming deal on it, however, it's days away from being discontinued.

so i have a hard time recommending out of date, non-supported software.  i bought it cause i need a good verb and chorus/flanger BADLY, and i knew this particular one very well.  the learning curve is 0 and as busy as i am right now, that's important.

i've heard amazing things about the system 6000 from TC.  and they are releasing a plug-in series of the system 6000 algorithms......i'm very anxious to hear them.

i wish lexicon would step up to the plate and dump their 960 algorithms into a PT plug as well.

i do very little processing inside PT, but effects are one of them, and good effects are crucial

[thephatboi]

Hey Theta, I use megaverb alot too, a good allrounder I'd say. I lost all my factory presets when i switched to HD protools. Wondered if you might know how I can download them and/or if I might get them from you. I have an idisk with .mac, would really appreciate it cause although I have made alot of my own presets the factory ones are good starting points... thanks in advance, seaningo@mac.com

[j.hall]

i didn't have the presets either in HD.

i'll bet you have the same problem i did.  the presets are there, but the folder they reside in is protected (for some stupid reason).  so PT is not allowed to read the contents of the folder and all the sub folder (rooms, halls, chambers, plates, etc...)

what i did was change the protection of this folder and it's subfolders.  i did the same for EQstat and TC chorus.

you have to be the admin of your machine to do this, i assume you are.

the below is rough as i'm not sitting in front of my mac at the moment.

on the mac hard drive, go to "Library", "application data", "Digidesign".

from there you should see all the plug in preset folders (you might have to open one more folder called "plug ins" i can't remember.

find the TC stuff.  you'll have three folders for it.

highlight all three together and press "apple I" for get info.

change the access to "read and write"

then spool open the "details" arrow just below the "read and write" option you just did.

there is a button called something like "apply to subfolders"....click on that, and your mac will prompt you to make sure you really want to do it.....say "yes" or "ok"

launch PT and see what happens.

if you still can't get the presets going let me know there is another step you can go through that might work.

if you do not have any of the folder in the library i'm happy to send them to you.

[j.hall]

apparently i'll be receiving a demo of the system 6k plugs to eval....i'll report back once i get to use them a bit more.