Please list the plugin and use case examples and why it's your favorite please.

 

ZebraHZ
DIVA
Hive
Repro
Soothe for cleaning
Flux Mini2 for pump
UAD DBX160 for drum group
EC300 for delays
NI Raum for huge reverbs
Sonnox Oxford Limiter

 

soothe
Osirus
tsar verb
blackhole verb
echoboy
airwindows mackity,creature
reaktor
UAD La2a
XLN drums
Reason rack noise engineering bundle 2

 

187 Kontakt
127 ReaEQ
124 ReaVerb
81 <EQ I'm working on>
73 TDR Kotelnikov
67 Lindell 7X-500
53 ReaSamplomatic
50 <Clipper I'm working on>
47 Valhalla Supermassive
42 ReaComp
38 Ignite SHB-1
31 MODO BASS 2
31 <Fuzz I'm working on>
29 Vital
27 <Saturation/pre-amp/transformer I'm working on>
27 SSL Fusion HF Compressor
24 Choric
18 Dragonfly Room
15 Valhalla Space Modulator
11 MCabinetMB

 

soothe (smoothing, delta-spiking)
spiff (transient control)
SoundID (linear phase headphone reference)
PEEL (spectral separation)
ElastiquePitch (manual glides)
StutterEdit 2 (buffer control)
ShaperBox (envelopes)
Zenology Pro/FX (everything)
Prophet-VS V (favorite synth)
Kontakt (libraries)

 

bx_2098 EQ Or EMI TG12345 for mixing everything
SPL Vitalizer MKII for some phatness
Eden WT800 or Ampeg SVT-VR for Bass & MODO BASS 1.52
Kush Clariphonic MKII for mastering
Shadow hills mastering compressor class A or SPL IRON for mastering
East West libraries & Kontakt libraries
Stylus RMX or Superior drummer
Garritan CFX Concert grand
bx_limiter for mastering
Lindell 254E for compression

 

I'll make this a 5/5 split between Instruments and FX:

These are in the most used order.

Instruments:
1. VPS Avenger 2
2. Spire
3. Serum
4. Sylenth1
5. Kontakt

FX:
1. Kirchhoff Eq
2. UAD Studer A800
3. The Glue
4. Seventh Heaven
5. D16 Repeater

 

Instruments: Serum/Hive/Spire/Dune/Sylenth/Korg M1/Hypersonic/Gladiator.
FX:BX masterdesk/Oxford Limiter/The Glue/Sonalksis SV-315/Standard Clip/Zynaptiq Intensity.

 

Superior/EZ Drummer
Amplesound Upright Bass
Kontakt
Arturia Farfisa V
Arturia Mellotron
UAD API 2500
UAD Distressor
Softube Tsar Verb
UAD Hitsville Chambers
IK Sunset Sound Reverb
Fab Pro Q
Soundtoys Decapitator
Kazrog True Iron
TDR Limiter
Izotope RX

 

Instruments: Zebra, Repro 5
Compressors: John V Fircomp2 and Klanghelm DC8C3
Equalizers: PSP E27 and Pro Q 3
Reverbs: Valhalla Vintage Reverb and Quantum Evolution V2
Delays: Valhalla Delay and Fabfilter Timeless 3

11. The new Airwindows ConsoLA Eq because Chris has captured the sound in my head.
https://www.airwindows.com/

 

10 synths/samplers:

UVI Falcon - drums, sampler, synths
Serum - abrasive digital synths
Omnisphere - smoother richer sounds, pads, basses
Kick2 - kicks, hats, snares
Punch 2 - other percussion
Roland TR-909 - kicks
Legend - basses
Sylenth - "staple" dance sounds
Alchemy - complex sounds, grains, transition sounds
Nexus 4 - rompler

10 Effects

Fabfilter Pro Q3 - main eq
Standard Clip - clipper
UVI Shade - filter/eq
Fabfilter Pro-C2 - channel compressor
Pulsar Modular P11 Abyss - anywhere compressor
DMG Limitless - Limiter
Decapitator - Saturation
Oxford Inflator - Enhancer
Valhalla Vintageverb - default Reverb
Altiverb 7 - IR Reverb

Non-Effects (metering)
Izotope Insight 2
Voxengo Span

10 DAW (Logic) stock things:
Transposer, Drum Machine Designer/sampler, External Instrument, Enveloper, Arpeggiator, Modulator, EQ, RemixFX, Compressor, Test Oscillator, Multimeter

Too many, but I still left out a lot.

 

All From Sonimus
All From Kit Plugin
Aberant DSP
shatteredglassaudio
All from d16-group
JS Inflator (free vst that emulates oxford Inflator)
All from kazrog
All from VoosteQ
All from Klanglheim
All from Psycho-Circutry
All from Softube
All from Soundtoys


wow

 

Noiseash Need 533 EQ
UAD LA-2A
SA 76
Softube Harmonics
Analog Obsession Re-life
Acustica Audio Fire The GOLD
SIR Standard Clip
Valhalla Delay
Exponential Audio Nimbus

 

For mixing:

Soothe (obviously, right?)

STL Tines Control Hub (it's The only channel strip I use. The artist profiles give you all the character I need with minimum hassle, and the limiter is vey effective in keeping spikes in check.)

EZDrummer 3 (The ride cymbal is really realistic)

SSD 5.5 (Sometimes that’s all you need to layer up some smack into a recorded drum kit)

Clear/ex Goyo (Graat ambience removal, voice separation, and deverb with very little CPU consumption)

Softube S73 (Although it’s a great mastering plugin, you get great character on individual tracks with no fuss)

Waves Smack Attack (awesome to remove percussive bleeds, besides the transient shaping)

UAD Massive Passive (Charaterful EQ, great in broad strokes)

UAD Cukture Vulture (Great saturation with lots of tweakability)

Plugin Alliance Vertigo VSM3 (one of the best tools to add character to drums and samples)

Smart:Limiter (no pain, lots of gain limiting)

For Recording (UAD plugins printed to disc):

Neve 88RS, LA2A silver, Culture Vulture, Distressor,
Marshall, Fender, Friedman, Engl, Ampeg amps,

 

Last edited: Dec 25, 2023

FabfilterProQ3
SuperiorDrummer3
THU
FabfilterPror2
Timeless (fabfilter)
Wavesapi2500
EzKeys
FM8
Compressor native from S1
Kontakt or UviFalcon

I would believe that these are the top 10 I would use, or my preferences, although it can vary at times. However, I could easily get by with just FabFilter, Superior Drummer, and THU.

 

Adaptiverb
Intensity
Supermodal
MSpectralDynamics
Valhalla Delay
Valhalla VintageVerb
Pro-Q3
Powair
Slap
F-59

 

Fabfilter Pro Q3 (EQ)
DUY Z-Room (for intentionally strange metallic reverbs)
Sonalksis StereoTools (great pan tool)
Pulsar Modular P11 Abyss /or/ ReaComp (compressors)
TAL Drum (I use this to build drum kits if I don't feel like turning on the MPC1000. Either way most of my drums are synth'd and then processed on the computer before they reach hardware again, and TAL has some nice little tricks up its sleeve)
Camel Phat (distortion for drums)
QFX suite (for building my own FX; the stock effects are great, too, in a 00s era plugin sort of way)
Valhalla Delay (such a great, simple UI that still offers so many options)
kHs Nonlinear Filter /or/ SoundToys FilterFreak (nice grungy filters)
Tone2 Icarus (if I use a software synth I often start with this)

 

Last edited: Dec 25, 2023

Aside of FabFilter Total Bundle, you mean?

 

Does this plugin make your mouse pointer randomly disappear? I liked using it to mono everything below certain frequency, but the mouse thing is a deal breaker bug.

 

Never had this issue with it. I'm on macOS High Sierra running Sonalksis plugs as VST2 in Reaper.

A free alternative is A1Stereo Control. Previously, I used Brainworx bx_control legit version but eventually I stopped paying for the bundle.
Of course an EQ with mono / stereo function like Fabfilter Pro-Q can do the same thing - and in that case offer more flexibility when it comes to the slope of the mono'd hipass filter.

 

Last edited: Dec 26, 2023