As always I've been frantically on the look out for new tools to improve my workflow and let me hit higher levels of quality with my work.
As of late the two single greatest I have found have by far been:
1) Soundtoys Native Bundle.
Holy crap. What can one say about these. They are absolutely straight forward, amazingly flexible, and let you do all that amazing automation on your mixes with absolute ease and efficiency. The delay alone is worth the asking price. I've ALWAYS been on the look out for a great delay, and this is the only one that's ever been on the level... in fact it's blown apart and surpassed the level several times. The ability to be able to drive the delay signal, crunch it up like a transistor radio, tape saturate it, multi-tap it, pan it all over the place all from the one plug-in is immensely useful. Not only that but they've made this thing sound spectacular, finally with the great feedback times I've been looking for.
This bundle is the most useful I've run into since getting the Waves SSL pack years back. I expect to be using both in conjunction with each other on all my projects for years to come.
2) AudioEase Speakerphone.
Never worry about having to add a radio or lo-fi effect to your mixes again. The great thing is that their library is IR-based so all the crunching and megaphoning and whatnot is actually based on the response of real units. No more hassles with filtering manually then scrounging around for distortion plug-ins. It's all built in and makes for some awesome sound design work.
3) PSP Old Timer.
Want a compressor that sounds like analogue, is easy as hell to dial, and costs less than $100? Get this now.
As of late the two single greatest I have found have by far been:
1) Soundtoys Native Bundle.
Holy crap. What can one say about these. They are absolutely straight forward, amazingly flexible, and let you do all that amazing automation on your mixes with absolute ease and efficiency. The delay alone is worth the asking price. I've ALWAYS been on the look out for a great delay, and this is the only one that's ever been on the level... in fact it's blown apart and surpassed the level several times. The ability to be able to drive the delay signal, crunch it up like a transistor radio, tape saturate it, multi-tap it, pan it all over the place all from the one plug-in is immensely useful. Not only that but they've made this thing sound spectacular, finally with the great feedback times I've been looking for.
This bundle is the most useful I've run into since getting the Waves SSL pack years back. I expect to be using both in conjunction with each other on all my projects for years to come.
2) AudioEase Speakerphone.
Never worry about having to add a radio or lo-fi effect to your mixes again. The great thing is that their library is IR-based so all the crunching and megaphoning and whatnot is actually based on the response of real units. No more hassles with filtering manually then scrounging around for distortion plug-ins. It's all built in and makes for some awesome sound design work.
3) PSP Old Timer.
Want a compressor that sounds like analogue, is easy as hell to dial, and costs less than $100? Get this now.
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