As you might’ve noticed if you visited our community page after this post, I made a very cool looking banner (or so my mum tells me). Thing is, I don’t use that many plugins on my own, and what better way to make the banner look interesting than to put your favorite plugins in there? This page will also serve as a cool overview of different plugins our community uses, so be sure to post all of your favorites! I’ll pick the coolest-looking ones for the banner!
This post is gonna stay up until I decide that the banner is done (and perhaps we’ll make it a seasonal thing to swap it out, who knows?) I’ll update this banner in my spare time when you guys post some things to add.
To get on the banner, comment the name of a plugin and the company or a name of the person who made it. You can also post a link to its page or your own screenshot of the plugin, if you want.
I don’t know what the limit is to how many plugins I can put in the image, but we should have a lot of space (and we’re not limited to the amount of spots currently on the list). I suppose as long as every individual plugin is recognizable when shrinked, we’re all good!
Right now the banner features:
(in order: columns from left to right )
- Pro-Q 3 by Fabfilter posted by many
- SPAN by Voxengo
- MSED by Voxengo
- Sforzando by Plogue
- Vital by Vital Audio
- Decapitator by Soundtoys posted by u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net
- 1176 Collection by Universal Audio posted for being a classic
- Pigments by Arturia posted by u/DASEIN
- Saturn by Fabfilter posted by u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net
- Zener-Bender by Softube Chandler posted by u/ebauche
- Aalto by Madrona Labs posted by u/DASEIN
- XO by XLN Audio posted by u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net
- 2500 Bus Compressor by Api posted by u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net
- Comper by Analog Obsession posted by u/goosehorse
- Surge XT by Surge Synth Team posted by u/mokpo@lemm.ee
- Sausage Fattener by Dada Life posted by chaos incarnate
- Replika XT by Native Instruments posted by u/ebauche
- Permut8 by Sonic Charge posted by u/DASEIN
- Omnisphere by Spectrasonics posted by u/Shadowbait
- Shaperbox by Cableguys posted by u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net
- Nova Dynamic EQ by Tokyo Dawn Records posted by u/goosehorse
- Super VHS by Baby Audio posted by u/Shadowbait
- PaulStretch by Sonasaurus posted by u/mokpo@lemm.ee
- EQ232D by Bettermaker posted by u/DASEIN
- “Space Echo” Delay Tape-201 by Arturia posted by u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net
- Supermassive by Valhalla posted by u/mokpo@lemm.ee
- Gullfoss by Soundtheory posted by u/Shadowbait
- Raum by Native Instruments posted by u/Shadowbait
- Deelay by Sixth Sample posted by u/mokpo@lemm.ee
I’ll swap out the placeholders for your submissions and credit you! Like this:
Stuff by Cool People posted by u/supercoolperson
And that’s about it. Sh.itjust.works and waveform.social will have different banners (in the same style), so we can do something different with both of them! Post away!
I’m newish to the plugin space, but two that I’ve found myself using quite a bit are:
Comper is a compressor with both serial and parallel options. I feel like I’ve gotten better sounds from this than the official Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor emulations from Plugin Alliance. Of course, that could be user error — I am a lowly live sound engineer, after all ;)
Tokyo Dawn’s Records’ Nova Dynamic EQ
I just like the way this one sounds. Does what I want with a good spectrum analyzer built in. I intend to purchase the full version soon, but I’ve found the free version very useful in my mixes. On the mastering side, I leaned into rhe Kirchoff EQ from Plugin Alliance, but it seems a bit unstable and feels a little overkill on the mixes where Nova gets the job done just fine.
They’re in! Thanks for the submissions!
If you put 10 OTTs on here it would look and sound better
lol, I might just put a small image of like 6 of them XD
My favourite synth plugin by far is definitely SurgeXT
and when I’m stuck or run out of ideas I just love to drown everything in Valhalla Supermassive :) No matter what crap I made before, it makes a soothing porridge out of everything :D
even better in combination with the vst version of PaulStretch
And I like Deelay It’s pretty neat for sound design.
SurgeXT looks pretty cool, I’m definitely taking a closer look at it later. Added everything for now!
Do that. It’s absolutely amazing.
Here are (probably) my most used plugins - I can see you’ve already got the UAD 1176 collection up there so I’ll not bother mentioning them (but the Rev A is just brilliant) 😊:
- Aruria Pigments
- Soundtoys Echoboy
- Sonic Charge Permut8
- Bettermaker EQ (Plugin Alliance)
- Madrona Labs Aalto
Nice idea by the way - it looks good!
Thanks for your kind words and suggestions! I put them all up, except I only found out I missed echoboy when I started to list down everything I added. I might put it in there next time I need to update it
Let’s dig into the plug-in folder…
I’d keep FF pro Q3 and UA 1176
Cableguys shaperbox Fabfilter Saturn Soundtoys Decapitator Arturia’s Space Echo emulation UAD API 2500 XLN XO Valhalla vintage verb
And just to be cheeky, maybe toss is Sausage Fattener.
Alright, alright, I’ll toss it up for you with the Sausage fattener, you devious being
Probably my single most used plugin in FabFilter ProQ 3. I can’t think of a mixdown I haven’t used it on. Outside of that I have a lot of love for the Softube Chandler Zener-Bender and Replika XT by Native Instruments
Put’em up! Thanks for the suggestions!
I’m mostly a hardware guy but I do use a few plugins:
- Omnisphere (Spectrasonics)
- Super VHS (Baby Audio)
- Raum (Native Instruments)
- Gulfoss (Soundtheory)
They’re up! Thanks for the suggestions!
Also, I’ve never heard of an automatic EQ, it sounds super interesting. What do you use Gullfoss for?
I use it as a master effect to improve my final mix. I don’t fully understand how it works, but it basically increases clarity while reducing harshness.
