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Given the multi-stage convolution, the IRs of which can't be extracted, and to build-your-own, you'd need a large collection of your own IRs, I'd say get it. So, if the music you make is a varied and wide sonic landscape SP2 can fit right in, but if you write in a specific small area of music production you might find yourself not using it as much.
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One thing I do quite often is test a mix through some of the car interior IRs, which are pretty good, as you'd expect from Audio Ease. It is great for putting elements in 'places' piano in the park, garageband in a garage. Based around Altiverb, Audioease's world-class convolution reverb plug-in, this includes a convolution engine that uses impulse responses (IRs) from hundreds of speakers - from walkie-talkies to Marshall stacks and way, way beyond. the EQ's, comp, gate and distortion might not be in an order you like, and they can't be adjusted either (one of my hopes for Speakerphone3), but it might be a of an overkill for simple channel strip duties. Speakerphone offers an alternative solution. 3-stage convolutions, ( mics, rooms, 'boxes'), I love the Telecom section (various phone network emulations), the Radio tuning is pretty cool and unique. I've used it for around a decade for a few different things crazy-ass sound-design. Up to you and your budget though if you want that sound. I used it a lot in creative sound design since that radio sound is so nostalgic. There's many other ways to get a radio sound on some drums, the price tag of Speakerphone 2 is really so that sound designers for film have every which way to match a radio on screen. If you wanted to just run some drums through it, it might be a bit overkill. Which makes your question understandable. Plus, none of them sound as genuine as Speakerphone 2, with as many options. A lot of other similar plugins fail to achieve not-annoying results, and make it hard to work into mixes without extensive EQ. If you need audio going through a bad speaker with creative tools to adjust, I highly recommend it. The actual file size for it is huge due to how large a sample library it has.
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I did a ton of sound design for film projects using Speakerphone 2, it's an incredible creative tool! It truly gets that radio sound, and has like however many 50 options to choose from, plus parameters. I never even thought I would see someone mention Speakerphone on Reddit.
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For example, an IR Browser is built into the Altiverb plug-in along with waterfall and waveform plots that update in real-time as parameters are altered. Yes, well for sound design, not music specifically. Altiverb and Speakerphone 2 both present an excellent and largely intuitive control interface with plenty of visual aids to help clarify what is going on.