Your essential mixing tools...

[adamrecordsbands]

Hey there guys,
Let me start by introducing myself, I'm Adam, I've been lurking around here for quite some time, awesome place you got here! Picked up so many tips and tricks off this site, just wanted to say thanks really!

Now here's a question: What are your 'desert island' mixing tools, (e.g. plugins, rackmounts etc.) that you just could not live without?

Mine would be:

- Drumagog (for obvious reasons)
- PSP VintageWarmer 2 (has improved my vocal mixes tons!)
- URS Vintage Channel Strip Pro (love it for kick, snare, incredibly versatile)
- Celemony Melodyne (getting that singer in tune, great creative tool for figuring out vocal harmonies etc.)
- CamelPhatFree (found out about this one on here, great tool for giving things that little something extra, plus it's free)

Apologies if this has been done before, just interested to hear what you say!

Adam

 

[greyskull]

mh labs channelstrip.
sonnox eq
SMACK!
dverb
tlspace
and pro tools

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Monster Energy drink
Advils.
Stress ball.

 

[006]

-Cubase 4 (has good EQ, built-in comp, limiter, etc.)
-apTrigga (and my sample library)
-digitalfishphones fish fillets (comp, de-ess and gate in one bundle )
-BitterSweetII (smack!!!)
-Monster energy drinks (green only!)
-sweet, sticky weed

~006

 

[dontletmedrown]

If things are tracked well...

NS-10s+sub
+
Pro-Tools or Sonar

BRING IT ON!

 

[SocialNumb]

Monster Energy drink
Advils.
Stress ball.

It's probably the Energy drink that gives you stress and forces you to eat Advils.

 

[kev]

ears are always handy (sorry lol...)

 

[Zombietakeover]

thats my main recipe

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-sweet, sticky weed

~006

 

[broken81]

ears are always handy (sorry lol...)

I was gonna say the exact same thing.

 

[C_F_H_13]

-Compressorbank...seriously my favorite compressor plug yet.

-Drumagog/stevenslate...it can be a huge life saver

-Well played/well edited tracks...I've received some pretty attrocious tracks that were either played like garbage, or edited so bad I turned down mixing it....yeah..THAT BAD!

-VST to RTAS wrapper. There are so many cool VST plugins out (FREE TOO) that make my plugin collection so much more of a creative outlet!

 

[kev]

I was gonna say the exact same thing.

I checked the thread thoroughly to make sure some other wanker hadnt stolen it before me

 

[Chryst Krispies]

It's probably the Energy drink that gives you stress and forces you to eat Advils.

I eat advils like Skittles.

 

[jangoux]

My 3M airport-worker headphones (to avoid listening to things i dont want)
Waves SSL
Autotune (always need it)
Apptrigga
PSP 608 Delay

 

[~BURNY~]

 

[cobhc]

 

[SocialNumb]

In that case we will be needing these.

 

[Thrasher666]

 

[cobhc]

Ooh nice. That bag o weed is pretty big.

 

[Ihsahn1981]

UAD Pultec Pro and UAD LA-2A

Damn they are good!!

 

[kev]

that is a fuck off bag of weed.