Your essential mixing tools...

[JBroll]

Reaper and its built-in plugs.
Digitalfishphones plugs.
Voxengo plugs.
Kjaerhus plugs.
Crystal VSTi.
Slate's samples, usually inserted with APTrigga.
Math texts for when I get bored.
Good cigars (Illusione, Avo, and Torano, usually) and pipe tobacco (Stokkebye's Navy Flake and Latakia Mixture, Dunhill's 965 and Nightcap, Balkan Sobranie, Gawith's 1729 Flake and Virginia Flake, Escudo, occasionally straight Cavendish) for when I get bored and need an excuse to go outside.

Jeff

 

[006]

Thrasher, whats the chocolate for? Any kind of aromatic purposes maybe? Or just to munch on?

I keep my stash in a box as well, not trying to brag but my bag is bigger , but I'm curious about the chocolate.

~006

 

[Torniojaws]

Any multiband EQ. That's all you really need Everything else is just nice to have.

But if I must, I guess:

- Sonitus FX 3 EQ and Compressor
- Wagner Sharp
- GuitarSuite Tube Screamer
- KeFIR
- Waves L3

 

[Chryst Krispies]

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Good cigars (Illusione, Avo, and Torano, usually)

It's all about a nice cigar.

 

[006]

Fo sho fo sho

~006

 

[Metaltastic]

...Until a huge chunk of ash falls right down into his faders. Wasn't it that ad that started that thread awhile ago about whether smoke was bad for gear? (the answer of course being YES)

 

[JBroll]

You'll find me at the Huebner Oaks cigar shop (Club Humidor) far too often. Mmm, cancer.

Jeff

 

[006]

~006

 

[JBroll]

Oh, and if you're not a fucking twit you won't have ash falling in your faders. Most cigars I smoke wind up being half ash (or more, like a few that have been smoked the whole way to the band with nothing dropped) before any of it falls off, and if you're paranoid you can just ease it off into an ashtray. Also, holding a cigar over anything electronic is just as stupid as holding food or drink over it. Hell, I've found ash to be easier to clean out than any kind of liquid, so if you keep a bottle of water anywhere near your stuff you're worse off than a room full of smokers.

But I usually do pipes, and those don't have ash flying everywhere.

Jeff

 

[006]

Unless you cough with the tip still in your mouth...then you've got burning embers, ash and resin blowing out of there. Er...I'm talking about a non-tobacco pipe, haha.

~006

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Hmmm.....

Tools that I have grown WAY to accustomed to using:

Wavearts Trackplug 5
" " Multidynamics 5
" " Masterverb 5
PSP Vintage Warmer 2
Digital phish phones plugs (FREE!!!!)
Izotope Ozone 3 (I don't use this ever on the master buss though)
Amplesoft Apptrigga 2 (and some samples)

Beer Mug

BX8a set

Cubase

 

[Machinated]

Drumagog (tried aptrigga, didn't like it)
Vintage Warmer
DI's and reamping

I don't feel that one piece of software is more essential to my mixing than any other. Logic is working pretty well for me. I love the URS CSP, but at the same time if I had to get by with the stock Logic plug's I'm sure my mixes wouldn't suffer too much.

 

[Dom Ostarig]

Just R.E.A.P.E.R.

 

[adamrecordsbands]

Hmmm.....


Izotope Ozone 3 (I don't use this ever on the master buss though)

How come? I've had some fairly good success with this on the master bus...

 

[if6was9]

Well i'm still quite new to this game and suck pretty hard but
reaper's eq
the genecomp/grancomp compressors- buzzcomp I think its called, they're free
Izotope ozone 3( funny i mostly use it on the master bus, bass and vocals pretty much only use the eq and "loudness maximiser" on it though)
SIR with a ton of free impulses I got, for my reverbs.
Stillwell delay/tempo- versatile and its great when somethings not having been tracked to a click.
I'd say 70-80% or so of my effects gets done with that lot,
I've got the digitalfishphones plugins but I never find myself using them- after so many people listing them as essential I think I'll give 'em another bash tomorrow in a project to see if I can get used to them.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

How come? I've had some fairly good success with this on the master bus...

Meh I just haven't wanted to mess with it yet.

 

[DevilJaw]

oxford plugs/vintage warmer, cold bottled root beer, 4 day old undies and nothing else, back sweat(i try to mix a track before the sweat reaches my butt crack).