I use the Millennia EQ, the Precision Limiter and the Pultec EQ for mastering jobs, but bought the Lexicon reverb to use on as a main aux verb in mixes and it sounds like the original, but with little tax on my Mac's CPU. I've never noticed any particular latency issues, but most of the plug-ins are designed for using on mix-down of pre-recorded material rather than inserted over live tracks. The emulations of classic outboard gear are faithful but the differences between them and bundled plug-ins are really subtle, so unless you're in a critical audio situation, perhaps not good value for money as there are plenty of excellent native plug-ins that do most jobs very well. Go get a UAD card if money is not an issue, some really great stuff, but I promise you that it won't be any higher quality than all the others.įor mastering mixes, the UAD plug ins are great.
I probably missed some and there are many other really great native plugs in these categories which just isn't for me, but surely is a lot better for someone else (/you?). so I'll leave that one open for someone else to answer. Space Echo: I've used a bunch of different plugs, but nowadays only use standard digital delays (as clean and simple as possible) and add different types of stuff in the feedback loops to emulate different types of old echoes (and totally made up stuff which sounds even better for some stuff).
Saturators/etc, try looking at the exact same companies (remove Flux and Tokyo Labs from that list and instead add Fielding DSP and FabFilter)ĮQs: Softube, Plugin Alliance, Flux, Waves, FabFilter, DMGAudio and Sonimus. So, a short list of companies who makes stuff I use a lot:Ĭompressors: Softube, Slate Digital, Flux, Plugin Alliance, Tokyo Labs, iZotope, Massey and Klanghelm.
I spent too much time writing a long list of plugs but presset cmd-r by accident = all gone.