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[mojave]

I added a VST plugin this morning and, as always, the Manage Plug-Ins button says "Add JRiver, VST or Winamp Plug-in". I think this is setting expectations way too high. Are there any JRiver plugins that can be added? I thought I read a while back that Winamp plugins will no longer work, but I can't seem to find it. Maybe the text should just read "Add VST Plug-in".

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About 10 months ago someone loaned me a ~$2000 tube preamp to try in my system for about a month. I was a told an all digital system wouldn't sound good unless I used a tube preamp.  I found that I could replicate the sound using the phi-L tube preamp VST plugin. I ended up not liking the actual tube preamp in my system. Today I was thinking about tube preamps after reading some Rocky Mountain Audio Fest coverage and decided to mess around with the VST plugin again.

[InflatableMouse]

Offtopic but one of the best sounding amps I've had (and heard) was a Beard P100 MKIII.

[Matt]

The previous CTO of JRiver, Nikolay Sokratov, was at RMAF.  He's started a tube company:
Tube Maze

He told me I need to build a Bottlehead.  I might give it a shot when it's too cold to do anything else this winter.

[mojave]

I just realized that in post 2014 I mentioned RMAF. Maybe I will have to attend RMAF 2014. 

[mwillems]

I added a VST plugin this morning and, as always, the Manage Plug-Ins button says "Add JRiver, VST or Winamp Plug-in". I think this is setting expectations way too high. Are there any JRiver plugins that can be added? I thought I read a while back that Winamp plugins will no longer work, but I can't seem to find it. Maybe the text should just read "Add VST Plug-in".

Bonus content
About 10 months ago someone loaned me a ~$2000 tube preamp to try in my system for about a month. I was a told an all digital system wouldn't sound good unless I used a tube preamp.   I found that I could replicate the sound using the phi-L tube preamp VST plugin. I ended up not liking the actual tube preamp in my system. Today I was thinking about tube preamps after reading some Rocky Mountain Audio Fest coverage and decided to mess around with the VST plugin again.

That's a really cool plug in.  I'm mostly not a huge fan of tubes, but it's a pretty neat technical accomplishment, and it really delivers that "tube" sound (in a way that other similar VSTs don't usually, in my opinion).  If anyone is interested in A/Bing, the VST plugin adds significant volume at its default settings which makes it hard to tell what you're hearing. Putting the drive "knob" to 9 o'clock and the gain "knob" to about 10:30 results in a more or less "even" volume level on my system and a moderately audible "tube" sound (YMMV).  Tons of fun 

[mojave]

Putting the drive "knob" to 9 o'clock and the gain "knob" to about 10:30 results in a more or less "even" volume level on my system and a moderately audible "tube" sound (YMMV).  Tons of fun 

That is exactly where I had set things for comparing. 

[InflatableMouse]

Oke I admit I don't think I ever installed a plugin. In DSP Studio I add VST, browse to the DLL (64-bit, I just downloaded from the link above) and it says failed to install.

What am I doing wrong?

[mojave]

Since JRiver is a 32-bit program, you have to install 32-bit VST plugins.  

Ha, our post count had the same numbers . . . but in different order.

[InflatableMouse]

Haha! 

_{Now why didn't I think of that 32-bit thing...}

[connersw]

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