Gear Of The Year 2010

[TheDriller]

variation of the "Album of the year".

Name your one favorite piece of gear released in 2010. (and please for fuck sake, only pick things that were actually released this year, not stuff you personally bought this year)

Hardware, software, guitars, cabs, whatever.

Mine is probably Slate Digital Trigger, getting a fair bit of use for layering up with electronic drum sounds.

 

[wishtheend]

Slate FG-X
Slate VCC
Tech 21 VT Bass Deluxe
EHX Freeze
Aguilar TLC Comp

 

[Trevoire520]

Trigger for me. Loving it and can't wait to see whats in store for Trigger 2.0!

 

[Trevoire520]

Oh! And Pro Tools 9!

 

[Ermz]

Trigger for sure.
Alex B's CLC Pro, GMC and CLQ Pro bundles.

Hardware wise I'm not really sure. I think the Overstayers I have just came into existence recently, but I'm still not entirely sold on them. Cool cheap way into a fair few channels of outboard compression though.

 

[Fama]

Trigger and FG-X for me. Oh, and Lecto too. Probably Lecab 2 for easy mixing of impulses, but I haven't used it too much so far.

 

[B36arin]

Trigger for me

 

[FIXXXER]

TRIGGER, FG-X

 

[tarbh666]

Another +1 for Trigger here too.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Pro Tools 9

 

[greyskull]

trigger and pro tools 9

 

[Emdprodukt]

trigger + vcc

 

[guitarguru777]

Trigger - hands down the most useful plug in I have ever bought
Latest Version of Steven Slate Drums

 

[JeffTD]

As much as I hate to say it, Trigger.

 

[TheDriller]

As much as I hate to say it, Trigger.

Care to elaborate?

 

[MindsinK]

I'm digging Trilian; now I can do fabulous bass arpeggios...

 

[Wolfeman]

Trigger. It's kinda by default though since not much was really released this year.

 

[B36arin]

PT9 is actually a great shout, but I haven't got it on my own computer yet, so I can't really comment on it... I've tried it out a few times though, and Pro Tools with only an iLok needed is worthy of the title of "gear of the year".

 

[JeffTD]

Care to elaborate?

I love the plugin (at least the 1.62 build, anything after that has the shitty new visualizer which sucks compared to the old one but nobody at Slate will address other than saying that "new one is cool, bro!"), but I hate the Slate Digital/Yellow Matter company. That's all I'll say - no need turning this into one of the many other threads where we talk about how badly they suck at running a digital audio company.

 

[Sacha]

Slate Digital stuff
Waves CLA
Decapitator
UAD Fatso and Massive Passive
Nebula GEQ
The Glue
Toontrack stuff
LSD drums