My top 10 favourite plugins!

Wayne's World?

Sonnox Inflator 😊

What do you think is the best plugin that emulates guitar amps and gear?

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iZotope RX has a nice interface, but the quality of Rip-n-Mix (or however they spell it) is quite a bit better for most of the songs I tested.

Thanks for the video! I have always wondered about those thick acoustic treatment cubes did you make them ?

As a hobbyist that wants to keep his budget in check, I'm glad I discovered the Tonebooster plugins. The EQ and Limiter especially. They're very good considering how much they cost. However, I couldn't resist getting UVI Shade this black friday and I think I'm falling in love.

Ozone 10 Elements does that « frequency curve reference » pretty well and even fixes you mix to match them. I have sent many unfinished mix to my clients using Ozone 10 quick mastering rendering and they were quite surprised how good they sounded.
Did the trick for a final mix and the Mastering guy said « well, sounds really good and didn’t have much to do »… Funny. $30.

KDH?!?!

Would you use Pro Q3 and Split EQ on the same track? is it worth having both?

my favourites:

Scheps Omni Channel
Waves Abbey Road Plates Reverb
Soundtoys EchoBoy
Sonnox Inflator
Klanghelm MJUC compressor
UAD 176 Compressor
Make Believe Studios Sontec MES-432D9D
Eventide Instant Flanger

How do you like your DMAX SuperCubes?

do you not like the new 
ozone 11?

always enjoy these updates in your preferences 👍🏻

surfer EQ to balance lower harmonics

No sausage fattener?

I like your selection. Most of them I use too.

Y’all don’t waste your money on plugs your daw already come with theses people get paid to promote this vst and probably work for the company in a way

Thanks for the video!

Bought the sonible true:balance not long before watching this! What I've found pairs well with it is the (free) Voxengo Marvel Graphic EQ, which is really simple for mid/side eq-ing, and by being graphic makes it easy to undo any moves you may later wish to refine.

Same as me. I was skeptical with the Sonible Smart Suite but after using them in my recent productions, I've actually started moving away from using Ozone 10 Advance and Fab-Filter Suite for mastering.

Plug-ins I love: waves Magma Springs (on sale now) and their RBass (old but vital), Decap’s Knock VST, Softube Tape, Black Rooster Audio Spring Reverb and their Plate Reverb, Tape Echoes by Softube, Dopamine by Overloud (special sauce exciter), nectar by izotope for vocals and Pulsar Echorec Tape Delay

MEH. 10 SNAKE OIL PLUGINS.

You definitely should try “Midnight” from Acustica Audio, which is a bundle of 670 clones. “Ultramarine” as well.

Would be nice to see your comparison with Universal Audio’s “Firechild”

Smartlimit weakens my low end.

proq3 is the shit. don't really like pro-r tho. i make music, so I'd use rx10 music rebalance to create my own acapella stems/or to remix a song. i do like the sonible comp's because I'm a noob when it comes to compression, and the UI makes it easy to see what I'm doing and easy to adjust. melda's production suite is free and amazing. what's a really good reverb I could get?

In my experience Nuostems has a cleaner sounding algorithm for stem extraction than RX10. Particularly for what you are using it for - removing a vocal.

It is running the Demucs algo under the hood and the v3 option gives the best result.

USE WHAT YOU HAVE OR CAN AFFORD YOH GOTTA HAVE GOOD EARS PLUG INS ARE NOT EVEN HALF OF PRODUCTION GOOD TAKES AND GOOD EARS VERY IMPORTANT

Split EQ has been in my mix bag since the first day it came out. They set the trend and now the cat is outta the bag everywhere. Cool to see. Have to give them props.

Sonible Smart De-Ess - WOW!

You should review the new Michelangelo EQ from Tone Projects. It emulates the orginal unit as well as including modern plug in features like dyanmic eq, auto gain, transient and body control... Look really good and would love a video from you about it!!

Smart limit is the wave🙌🏾

Cool, if it isn't a list that solves everything i find quite finicky in a practical automatic way! I just picked up the free Ozone EQ which has the transient/sustain options.

I do graph analysis with mEQ but that's very fiddly. If anything can do quick analysis via file upload that would be amazing. Sounds like the average function is pretty useful too, is that a range or standard deviation around it? That's important too.

I agree with not overusing that, it gives an idea of what and where might be wrong, maybe a harsh frequency, maybe tells you to try less sub etc. Removing 2.5k resonances a lot used to be a thing but all the references for loud guitar seemed to have those louder so now i don't worry about that. Good for sub when monitors suck too! But the moves you make to it are with ears, no reference track is an average and that will vary hence thing if you make an analysis its important to know how far things go. I basically have some jpeg screenshots of various "styles" or make one of a track/album i can call up and over lay if a track is more inbetween a few things -very clunky way of doing it 100 not recommended haha.

nice list, definitely a great starting point for any audio folks in 2023,
I wonder what do you think about new TDR Filters (bundle)?

About smart limit. I was using it about a half year. And IMO its strange. Without comparisons with others its ok. Im habit with this sound. But. Its do something that makes overall sound boring. Its like making the hi mid deep out of my speakers. Now Im quit and switch to invisible limiter.

I love the Elysia plugins!

Nice video. I'm a big fan of the IK Multimedia T-RackS analogue EQ and compressor emulations (like the Black 76 and EQP-1A), plus ValhallaVintageVerb and Soundtoys Decapitator and EchoBoy.

Yup, I say Elysia sends him a unit .... or a kit, and he can build it himself. I saw someone else suggested this as well. That would result in more Promotion. Would be a win-win for both parties. Great video btw. I have about 75% of these plugins... and they are all good. Cheers-

Next year you need to have the Michelangelo EQ in your top 10……….. cheers and thanks for showing your favorites

With iso rx, Steinberg (makers of cubase) have their own program that does similar things with ai generated algorithms called spectral layers. It's really good at what it does, and you can almost perfectly (almost) remove full vocals or instrument parts from mixed tracks etc. It's never 100% perfect like with all these "unmixing" solutions, but it's SO so useful when doing any kind of audio restoration work, and it's constantly getting better and better at doing it in each subsequent version release. And for a cubase user like myself, makes more sense as it can be loaded up in cubase as a extension and it seamlessly integrates with it. They also have it in Steinberg's new vst format .ARA (Steinberg are the inventors of the .vst & .vst3 standard btw), which should make integration into other modern DAWs much more seamless too. 🤟

Universal Audio is poopoo for Windows and their always online plug ins are unreasonable. RME all the way.

I have followed you for over 3 years but this video is very informative, especially the last plugin !
i was about to (over-analyse) if you wouldn't have said that,

What are you thought on the Kirchhoff-EQ compared to Fab-filter? Have you given it another chance since you review video?

Grabbed SPL Iron for £30, it seems that it's as good as everyone says it is. My go to character compressor along with Abberant DSP's ShapeShifter. Does a great job of tightening up the dynamics going into my Master limiter. Love it already and an absolute bargain on Plugin Boutique during the sales.❤

Pro Q, Pro L, Pro R
UAD 670, 1176, Distressor
Echoboy
Gullfoss
Inspirata

If I had to I could probably survive with just those. But I do use all the FF, UAD, and Soundtoys bundles regularly.

Shoutout too to Vintage Warmer and Split EQ.