Useless Plugins

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Never know what someone deems as useless someone else could give knowledge on how it is quit useful. Fire away me first.

Waves -" The Kings Microphones", if anyone could show me the use for these things (a real use) or even how they use them send me your pay pal info.
 
Nasty VSD. I actually predicted this a couple years before it came out, though I was joking. It's a "virtual analog summing device". You know, so you can get the benefits of analog summing without leaving the computer.:drunk:
 
BBE Sonic Maximizer is an epic piece of crap.

I would say that (most of) Antress Modern Plugin are useless, not because they are bad but because they crash very often.
 
ashcat_lt said:
Nasty VSD. I actually predicted this a couple years before it came out, though I was joking. It's a "virtual analog summing device". You know, so you can get the benefits of analog summing without leaving the computer.:drunk:
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Waves NLS plugin, UAD Apollo, and what is it helio or helix has something long those lines cant quite remember at the moment. but the UAD and the Waves ones are pretty good. lol but i cant imagine the Nasty VSD coming out before those two claiming such great value lol
 
I've found all plug ins are useless when ya don't use a computer.
:D
 
Maxwell999 said:
I would say that (most of) Antress Modern Plugin are useless, not because they are bad but because they crash very often.
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You must have a system issue of some kind because those plugs have never crashed on me. I use at least one in most projects these days.

Sorry, no input on useless plugs atm :o
 
All these damn eq plugins aren't necessarily useless, but there sure are way too many options out there, imo!

Only because it was part of a pack do i have all these, but I currently have eq plugins modeled after neve, ssl and api. There are 3 band, 4 band, 5 band, 6 band, 7 band versions! Gah, what to use, what to use!

I feel there smaller band eq's to be pretty useless, for me anyways. Reason being, is there are always subtle little carves I take out of each instrument so they compliment eachother and leave space for eachother. I like to use the "sweetening" or "additive" eq boosts in the same plugin, so I can't see how a 3 band will do that. Even the 4 band ones, because there are no low pass or hi passes on them (hence being 4 band). I pretty much always have a high pass filter engaged. Even on kick and bass (at 30 hz).

I guess it's for the old school nostalgia of some guys, but that's all I can think of.
 
Chili said:
BBE Sonic Maximizer. :( Can't believe I paid for that plug.
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Aye! A friend of mine got it and he had me over to check to see if it did anything good while using it.

I only noticed that it was CPU hungry. :yawn:
 
moresound said:
Aye! A friend of mine got it and he had me over to check to see if it did anything good while using it.

I only noticed that it was CPU hungry. :yawn:
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It was the first plug I ever bought about 5 or 6 years ago maybe(?). I got it because my mixes were flat and lifeless and I thought it would add more "sheen". Nevermind that I didn't know what the hell I was doing.... :o

And it didn't play nicely with Cubase. It would crash or cause digital distortion. The worst thing was it cost $100. Whatta waste.
 
Not sure what he paid but his disappointment in is performance was on track with your observations. ;)
 
Plugins that I have purchased and regretted:

- Crysonic nXtasy V3 analog multiband harmonic saturation:

Why? Because the GUI is terrible. It looks pretty, but I have never had a plugin tell me less than this one. I really dislike having to look at a manual for a plugin like this. This plugin was designed to do what izotope's ozone harmonic exciter does, only izotope actually did a proper layout for it. Thankfully I think I only spent $20 on it.

- Nomad Factory Studio Channel SC-226:

Everything you expect it to do, it does badly or hardly at all. But honestly this has been the only super bad Nomad Factory purchase. I use thier delay, british bundle, pultec eqs and other channel strips quit a bit so this just must have been a miss for them. Another $20 wasted though.

- BBE sonic maximiser:

It never sounded good, this plugin was so bad I erased it. Worst money spent ever. Oddly enough though I have a BBE hardware bass preamp that has a true bypass sonic max on it and THAT one sounds fantastic.

- SSL X orcism.

It was a neat idea (I guess?) but it didn't have enough control over what it was putting out. I don't think I have ever succesfully used this plugin.

- Sound Toys little radiator:

Mic and preamp emulators are stupid. Enough said.

- Mellowmuse ATA:

It was a good idea until pro tools decided it wasn't going to be a piece of shit DAW anymore and joined the world of included latency compensation like every other recording daw on the planet (versions 9 and 10).
 
Guitargodgt said:
Ah good point. lol

Doesn't mean it wasn't worthless though. haha
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LOL! I was actually thinking of downloading that one. I decided to pass on it as it looked like it would be incredibly limited in what I would do with it. I honestly can't think of anything where I would use that. Maybe if someone wanted to make a somewhat cheesy spooky song, but that ain't me. :D
 
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