yorolpal
First, I'm sure they are premium quality. Second, I know you spent time and man hours producing them. Third, welcome to the new paradigm...they are still waaaaaaaay to expensive. Sorry. $50 is the new $300.

Not for top quality professional products.
 
Audio Deluxe member prices:
Softube Tube-Tech CL 1B  $149.99
Waves Vitamin Sonic Enhancer $83.99
 
UAD prices:
API Vision Channel Strip Plug-In $299.00
Ampex® ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder Plug-In  $349.00
SSL G Series Bus Compressor Plug-In $249.00
 
Musicians Friends prices:
Markbass Mark Studio 1 Amp Modeling System Plug-in $199.99
Lexicon MPX Native Reverb Software Plug-In $99.95
Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machine Software - Boxed Version $199.99
 
Hobbyists can get buy with less and there are some good plug-ins for less but $50 is not the new $300.  If it was there would be fewer professional products.

carl
Had a chance to try & both sound very nice. 73 for easy & classic vibe, 81 more detailed work.
Nice high end & punch, musical. There's not so much coloration & it will work on just about any material including orchestral.
These will replace more Nebulas instances which is always good for my workflow.

As far as the price there's no gun to my head. The quality's there, not overpriced compared to other top vendors.
One can always wait for a future sale promos, which we all know there will be.

Good job on these.

Carl, did you try the Demo of the Kuassa EVE AT1 and EVE AT4??  You can get both of those for $55...
that's less the 1/5th of what these cost for the pair...just curious...

You can get the Demo here...

http://www.kuassa.com/products/eve-at-series/

I would be curious if someone had real world time with a real Neve...How it would compare to using this IK Neve and the Sonimus Britson. Anyone out there rich with a real Neve?

#vintagevibe:  First, I was commiserating with IK...not bashing.  Second, I was being hyperbolic.  HTH.
 

cclarry
 

Carl, did you try the Demo of the Kuassa EVE AT1 and EVE AT4??  You can get both of those for $55...
that's less the 1/5th of what these cost for the pair...just curious...

Thanks Larry,
I'll check them out.

yorolpal
#vintagevibe:  First, I was commiserating with IK...not bashing.  Second, I was being hyperbolic.  HTH.
 

Ahh... I totally missed that.  I guess I need more coffee.

yorolpal
What's something of a mystery to me is that there are still folks out there (other than newbies) still in need of yet another good eq or compressor.  Especially when you consider the quality of what now comes with X3 stock.  Yes, I have eleventy jillion or so, but I've basically quit purchasing eqs, compressors, limiters and reverbs.  I'm really not even tempted anymore.  That said, I could be by the right plugin.  But these aren't they.
 
 

This is pretty much exactly where I'm at. Anymore EQ's or comps for me is getting to be a waste of time and money. You get pretty jaded after you already have a bunch of really good sounding options.
 
But IK shouldn't take that as a knock, and if they can keep making and profitably selling nice sounding new stuff, that's great. If I personally don't need (or like, or whatever) a new product at a given price I don't have to buy it. 
 
I just worry about how an increasingly mature and saturated market can keep all of the people out there doing good work afloat.

drewfx1
I just worry about how an increasingly mature and saturated market can keep all of the people out there doing good work afloat.

 
There will always be a market for the new and improved, which these plugs certainly qualify as.  I think most would agree that most plugins do not quite match the sound quality of real hardware, but a lot of progress has been made recently towards that goal.  IK, UAD, Slate, and a few others are getting amazingly close to the real deal. 
 
Hey, I just noticed that these EQs are available from Audio Deluxe for $104.99 each, which I'd say is within the realm of the reasonable. 
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

I'd like to have the Neve EQs... but (like our O'l Pal), I already have numerous high-quality EQ options.
ie: I've got at least four different models (different companies) of the SSL Channel strip.