Favorite Effect Plugin(s) Thread!

[AlanHadgis]

Alright people, let's hear what your go-to effect plugin(s) is/are on every track you make!

1. Sugabytes WOW Filter - Tweakable envelopes, vowel filter, bandpass/lopass/highpass/comb filter/+more make it awesome.
2. ableton EQ and compressor - simple, lightweight, gets the job done
3. Waves IR-1 reverb. Sounds nice, but in the market for something new... Still sounds 'ringy'. Maybe I need to learn how to use it better :lol:


Let's keep synths and instruments out of this thread, we can make a new thread for instruments and such:tup:

[Ellissentials]

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/Glitch.jpg

http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/


Glitch features a pattern-based effects sequencer that takes the incoming audio, breaks it down into user-defined slices, and then applies different effects to each slice. The sounds it generates range from quite subtle to extremely bizarre, depending on how much you tweak the controls. Effects can either be programmed by hand to create specific desired patterns; chosen pseudo-randomly based on each effect’s probability level, with a user-defined seed value that optionally allows the same sequence of “random” effects to be chosen each time; or combined into a mixture of both methods to suite your own tastes.

One killer (FREE) VST right here :tup:

[Ellissentials]

http://www.ohmforce.com/ViewProduct.do?p=Ohmicide

http://d3qspu01806e0h.cloudfront.net/images/v4/ss/Ohmicide_funky.jpg


Ohmicide:Melohman is just one of the best software distortions ever made. And when you read "one of the best" you can be sure we're still humble guys: there aren't many decent distortions in the plug-in world, and none is as rich and complex, yet easy to use - and affordable - as this Ohm beast. It's common knowledge that "a great distorted sound changes everything" and it's exactly what Ohmicide:Melohman delivers. In one death blow. Ohmicide:Melohman can work with up to 4 frequency bands, all four bands having their own independent knobs for Noise Gate, Dynamics, Distortion, Feedback Generator and all mixing abilities, in addition of a twist of pre- and post-processing (distortion input, high shelf output and more). Its killer features are:

Band distortion: a heap of modern sounding stereo distortions that can feedback.
Band dynamic: alien compressor or expander, synchronized noise gate and more.
Multi-band stereo: Phase corrected multi-band stereo effect + optionally process in mid/side mode for more stereo field tweak-ability.
Melohman feature: midi controlled preset morphing or randomization. Remixers' new absolute must.
Great on guitar, bass, synth, drums and any living creature in general.

You'll be able to listen to the Ohmicide:Melohman distortions on the albums of artists such as Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Björk, David Bowie, Napalm Death, The Killers, and many others

[Ellissentials]

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/massive/

http://producertoolz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/massive.jpg


MASSIVE is a sonic monster – the ultimate synth for basses and leads. The analog concept belies the contemporary, cutting-edge sound it generates. The high-end engine delivers pure quality, lending an undeniable virtue and character to even the most saturated of sounds. The interface is clearly laid out and easy to use, ensuring you will have MASSIVE generating earth-shuddering sounds from the very first note.

[the4thImpulse]

1. iZotope Ozone 5
2. Antress Modern Compressor
3. Antress Modern Spacer

[AbstractQuality]

The D16 Silverline Collection is good. There was a group buy type thing a few months ago and I ended up getting all 5 of the plugins for the price of one ($55)

Toraverb - Good for big, dark reverbs and weird sounding refractions. Not so good for more 'room' like sounds though.
Decimort - Great decimator. Can add some really nice punch and crunchiness to drums.
Devastor - Awesome distortion. Can get much more than your standard distortion/overdrive sounds out of it.
Fazortan - Nice lush phaser action
Syntorus - Beautiful chorus.

I also have NastyDLA which is a free tape emulation delay. Sounds fantastic and is free.

Looking into getting Valhalla Shimmer and UberMod. Ubermod looks so unique and fantastic.
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[ezelkow1]

-Another +1 for WOW filter
-Valhalla room reverb, best damn reverb ever
-D16 silverline, mostly for the distortions, like the chorus too though
-The rocket for drum compression
-rp-delay for all around delay duties, just grabbed lemasque though, seemed interesting


Still tempted by valhalla ubermod, just not sure if I can see myself using it, but all of valhalla's stuff is just hard to beat. Also like the nomad factory suite, picked it up during their big discount and magnetic, echoes, and some of the eq's and comps are nice to add some flavor

[AlanHadgis]

I've heard good things about valhalla room... gotta check that out

[ezelkow1]

Definitely do, best one Ive ever heard, even compared to ones at 5x the price. Thats also the general consensus Ive seen around kvr and gs

Forgot to add CamelSpace. When in doubt slap that on some drone/pad/drum loop, my go to for anything FSU, unless it needs to be super glitchy, then something from the reaktor lib gets sought after

[Giran]

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/Glitch.jpg

http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/

One killer (FREE) VST right here :tup:

Yeaaaaaaah buddy! Absolutely LOVE this plugin! :D

My favourite plugins are the FabFilter Bundle, DMG EQuality and Dada Life's Sausage Fattener! :zany:

[Skeyelab]

anything from SPL or Voxengo

[mainstreamdjs]

anything from SPL or Voxengo

Voxengo +2

[mostapha]

I just realized how few plugins I actually use. The vast majority of my stuff goes through Logic or Maschine's stock plugins. I know I could do better, but it's so annoying to bother comparing them when some large part of me honestly believes that even basic hardware might yield better results for what I want.

That being said, if I could actually decide which company to trust on some basics, I'd probably just buy once and forget about it.


-Valhalla room reverb, best damn reverb ever

I'm going to have to give that a try. I need to find a good reverb. The ones I have just don't do it for me and I've been using stacked delays instead, which is getting tedious.

[Ellissentials]

I just realized how few plugins I actually use.


Same here really.. I'm just getting really into VST's now. Live instruments / effects etc are SO powerful and vast in Live 8 Suite, that I've had no real need to use VSTs. Take Massive for example. It's just a quick way to get some advanced sounds, but if you chain together an Operator with Analog and throw a "Pitch Tracking" vocorder on a MIDI line, and automate the rates and variables, you get some NI Massive sounds.... nearly exact! Just takes a bit of work, but you can claim a more "original" sound that way, instead of editing presets in Massive.

I love Ableton Live, and feel that it's creativity potential is phenomenal and unlimited. :D

[Tektonix]

Mine would be C:

1. Dblue Glitch
2. Ohmforce Ohmicide
3. Whoeverthefuckmadeit Camelphat

[login]

I demoed fabfilter plugs: pro q, pro c, pro l. I liked them a lot but I dont have spare money to buy them.

SO I keep using ableton fx: eq 8, compressor, limiter, delays and reverbs.

[Mystic]

Sonar Pro Channel is beast.
Also use a lot of Waves and FabFilter plugins