I got my e-mail and coupon and upgraded.

Agree 100% with Jon D.

JR

Got it today too.

wow, they almost doubled the cost of a new purchase.

What, they're charging $200 for it now? That's nuts.

yep, well, 175, but close enough.

at 99 clams, yep.

at 175, nope.

I never got the e-mail, even though I have used 2.3 for years. The support link on their site asks you to download some crapware CAPTCHA program to finalize your communication. I went on the net and connected to their forum where I found an e-mail address for support. I sent them my name and my old e-mail account and a few ripe comments about how ridiculously complicated this has to be.

All I got back was an e-mail from Earle telling me to use something else. He was resentful that I would suggest that there was ANY problem with their communication! That seems to be at odds with other comments on this forum.

Basically - He told me to Go To Hell !

Seriously guys, this is a "convenience" program. It's nice for a quick tweak on a premaster.

These people seem to think that they are God's gift to engineers!

Oh well, one less thing to worry about...but I would think twice about a company that sends you WACKY e-mails and takes 7 years to upgrade at twice the cost of the original program. Just sayin'.

I was flabbergasted.

Earle is easily offended. But he is, after all, a world-famous mastering engineer. Some idiosyncracies are to be expected at that level.

OK, I can accept that.  I don't listen to or master any rap or hip-hop so I only know of this fellow peripherally.

Having said that, I do know people who are well known and vastly talented and don't act like ass-hats.

I dumped HarBal from our workstations and will use GlissEQ 3 for dynamic EQ. It seems like a nice interface, is a fraction of the cost and is a plug-in.  Now that I am forever banned from upgrading my 99 dollar 7 year old program that I didn't use that much, I am cerainly not going to pay 175 bucks to line the pockets of some some famous guy who seems to hate me.

I recently picked up Steven Slate's FG-X that is in the same general street-price range as HarBal 3. If you want to put the finishing touch's on a Demo mix and crank out a quick and REALLY nice sounding mp3 it is a HUGE time saver and much cheaper than other "finalizing" software. THAT is my idea of money well spent!

I didn't get the email. But trying to contact HarBal support, my problem's kinda dumb...
I can't get 'really simple captcha' to work. So I can't send the email  


How on earth do you install it? What do I do?  


I use Chrome. 


Nadine X 

he is, after all, a world-famous mastering engineer

That was meant to be facetious. Earle is world-famous by self-proclamation only.