Help me choose...

[John_C]

I was browsing through some old emails when i found i had an old IK multimedia multibox serial lying around that i'd never redeemed

I can choose any one of the tRacks singles, i've listed the ones i don't already have below:

• Black 76 Limiting Amplifier

very tempted, i don't have a 1176 sim and it seems like i really should

• White 2A Leveling Amplifier

the LA2A is a classic, but i'm less familiar with the sound

• Vintage Tube Program Equalizer

Pultec sim, 'nuff said. I have the Nomad factory british NEQ for
character eq but this would be a different character

• Opto compressor

Not sure why i'd go for this, unless someone tells me it's absolute
magic. I guess i don't have any opto sims

• Intelligent, multi-algorithm Brickwall limiter

Boring, generic. Doesn't really excite me

• High precision, high definition Linear Phase Equalizer

I don't have a linear phase eq. Then again, do i really need one?

• Classic T-RackS Multi-band Limiter

Don't see it as an essential

• Classic T-RackS Clipper

Is it really that much better than GClip?


I'll be giving all the demos a try, but i was wondering if people with more experience with either these plugins or the hardware they're based on could advise as to which would serve me best

 

[paladin shredder]

I haven't tried their UA compressors, but I have the mastering suite and the only thing I use from it is the Fairchild compressor:

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/trsingles/moreinfo/moreinfo2.php

Excellent for drums, vocals, or master bus compression imo.

 

[John_C]

I haven't tried their UA compressors, but I have the mastering suite and the only thing I use from it is the Fairchild compressor:

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/trsingles/moreinfo/moreinfo2.php

Excellent for drums, vocals, or master bus compression imo.

already got that one, haven't really tried it much though

 

[Fandus]

i would go the 1176. although i have never tried that companys take on it. best bet is, as you said, demo them and see what YOU see yourself using the most. everyone has their own way of mixing so another persons opinion might be totally irrelevant to you.

 

[Trevoire520]

If you don't have and 1176 plug then I would say that's easily the way to go. I use 1176's all over my mixes. Vocals, bass, parallel compression on drums, kicks, snares, room mic's. Out of all those plugs I bet the 1176 is what you'd use more often than anything else.