P42 Climax MOD

positive
- Main knob adjustment is fine, allows good control of output
- saturation sounds good
- fat saturation possible, gives good lowend on programmed drums
- some presets are good, eg Kick Punch nicely cleared my self programmed kick and made it rounder
- tuning the default preset gave a bass sound more definition in a subtle manner, without destroying the mix
- works in conjunction with other saturators (eg. VSM-4, to clean up muddiness in one of my cases).

negative
- need to give full adress when requesting trial key
- UI looks amateurish/unfinished
-- clipped graphics, not smoothed edges of cutout graphics
-- knobs not sharp, look blurred
-- UI elements placement looks a bit off
-- too many elements of different shape in the UI
-- on mouse over tooltip stay visible when leaving element (and look off compared to each other)
-- DI switch settings are not clear, at strange positions, needs markers. Also mouse needs to travel a long way to switch DI states
- needs an output meter to quicker be able to set the output trim setting
- price is very high (215€, even discounted by 20% it is high), other plugins can do similar things (at least in my ears), which are priced 50% or less of that price.

compared against other saturators I use (in about the same price class) the workflow is not immediately clear.
compared against VSM-4, Kelvin, Overstay M-A-S. P42's results are not as immediate and clear.
Maybe need to test it more, but on the other plugins it was more intuitive to use.

I'm beta tester for some well known companies and this would be the feedback I give them about the product.
It's not in any way towards or against the dev, I try to stay neutral, and this is usually honored by the companies I test for.