What are your top five favorite FX plugins that really helped you in your music production ..?
- KVRist
- 74 posts since 15 Apr, 2004 from Sweden
Saturation
Plugin Alliance Black Box HG-2 - The first saturator I feel comfortable with slapping on the master buss.
EQ
Fabfilter Pro-Q - I used Voxengo Gliss-EQ for ages. But once I finally tried Pro-Q, I never looked back. Great workflow improvement.
Multi-tool
Izotope RX - It's such a versatile tool. I often use Leveller on vocal tracks. It reduces the need for compression and de-essing.
Glue
Soundtoys Devil-Loc - My main glue tool. Perfect for parallell processing of drums.
Multiband
Voxengo Soniformer. Really transparent when using it moderately. It's been on my master buss for ages.
Plugin Alliance Black Box HG-2 - The first saturator I feel comfortable with slapping on the master buss.
EQ
Fabfilter Pro-Q - I used Voxengo Gliss-EQ for ages. But once I finally tried Pro-Q, I never looked back. Great workflow improvement.
Multi-tool
Izotope RX - It's such a versatile tool. I often use Leveller on vocal tracks. It reduces the need for compression and de-essing.
Glue
Soundtoys Devil-Loc - My main glue tool. Perfect for parallell processing of drums.
Multiband
Voxengo Soniformer. Really transparent when using it moderately. It's been on my master buss for ages.
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- KVRian
- 520 posts since 9 Aug, 2017
xoxos wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 3:10 pm scored my first multitrack in 1991. not sure i've used five effects in the last decade.. so for contrast
#1 is definately host eq
stereo delay on everything
reverb (xoxos) just ok reverb, but low cpu
MDA dynamics (ancient, no oversampling, i don't push it)
occasional gate and phaser i can recall. does this correlate with most skill development, dunno, but its gelled that way for so long it probably represents something.
i coded some wild effects, like a fft cascade, but in composition, i've only used the demo .wav i recorded with that effect
I like this post. Are you recording hardware+fx on the way in or just making music with a really stripped back setup?
- KVRAF
- 1672 posts since 3 Aug, 2017 from San Diego, CA
Forgot to list the Gain Suite plugins in my original post.ReverendLove wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:12 am Plugins, which really help me:
Airwaves consoles
Blue Cat's gain suite - grouping and reversing are heaven send
MMultiAnalyzer
TB Isone with TB Morphit
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- Banned
- 12368 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
nah, my particularity (synth dev) is method as expression. some kind of memetic/intellectual minimalism
imo teh "first, learn to EQ" part of my experience is worth articulating, but for me making recordings drifted too far from the concept of sensationalism. i like my work to be transparent, where you can see how it fits together, even if that makes it boring. can't recommend it as a modality but there you are
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- Banned
- 12368 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
principle attributed to kilo 4-3, admin of dancetech.com, before vst, facile spectral analysis.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
- KVRian
- 1403 posts since 30 Mar, 2014
Let me see if I can translate what you just said:
"The principle that I alluded to can be attributed to kilo 4-3, admin of dancetech.com. It comes before using any VSTs or superficial spectral analysis."
Did I get that right?
- KVRAF
- 2269 posts since 10 Jul, 2008 from Orbit NE US
Hmm, just 5?
PSP Vintage warmer 2 or MasterComp
TB Reelbus
TB Barricade or PSP Xenon
PSP Echo
ValhallaRoom and/or Plate
First three on master, last two as fx sends. Vroom probably gets the most use. I don’t use any of them on everything but quite a bit. Reasons: they sound great, are flexible for my uses and a previous post the people behind these three companies are great. Since most of what i do is ITB, i don’t use much actual compression. I have started to use the in built reverb and eq on some of my softsynths.
Lastly i use either my DAW eq (Reaper or Ableton live), or PSP Neon.
PSP Vintage warmer 2 or MasterComp
TB Reelbus
TB Barricade or PSP Xenon
PSP Echo
ValhallaRoom and/or Plate
First three on master, last two as fx sends. Vroom probably gets the most use. I don’t use any of them on everything but quite a bit. Reasons: they sound great, are flexible for my uses and a previous post the people behind these three companies are great. Since most of what i do is ITB, i don’t use much actual compression. I have started to use the in built reverb and eq on some of my softsynths.
Lastly i use either my DAW eq (Reaper or Ableton live), or PSP Neon.
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