vote for your Favourite plugin of each kind

[usernamebob]

okay, this was inspired by the plugin that you can't live without thread. the catagories will be

Compressor (multiband or single band)

Eq

Reverb

Tape/valve or "enhancer"

Speaker sim/amp sim

Other (mastering suites, temolo's, de-essers, noise reduction, ect)

 

[earworm]

mhhh,
most of the time i use Waves L3 , the multiband limiter, for limiting

for EQ i use Equim alot (elemental audio systems Equim)

for Reverb... mhh,,don't have a real favorite but most of the time its Roomverb or Waves IR1

i'm not extremely crazy about plugins...i love my hardware

 

[usernamebob]

I just realised I forgot to say mine so I thought I'd put em in here,


Compressors
Waves Rvox (nice, simple, low on cpu colouring, and nicely coloured) and waves c1 (transparent)

Eq
don't realy have a favourite

Reverb
The waves Rverb, can't believe how warm it makes my mixes sound when I use it lightly

Saturation or enhancer
probably the antares valve plugin, it doesn't seem to make much difference at all on it's own, but it just smoothes things out in a mix and adds some pleasant sounding harmonics

Speaker sim/amp sim
well, I havent found an amp sim that I can stand the sound of, but, I havent realy tried out speaker sims, can anyone sujest some good ones?

Other
Vintage warmer is good, so is izotope ozone.

 

[lomarrius]

The only amp/speaker sims I have tried is Revalver and Amplitube.

Amplitube has it's moments, it can be good for taking a really clean guitar sound and getting a crazy, unique sound with some cool effects that really stands out in the mix. it has unique sound properties sometimes. On the other hand, I would never use it to "simulate" ANYTHING! Just turning on that plugin on a clean tone severely changes the guitar tone. Playing around with the speakers sims will give you a choice of crappy tones, really. It won't be like playing through a Jazzmaster or some cool old tube amp although like I said, it does have it's moments but I would never rely on it. I rely on my 4x12 cabinet. or, if i want, i can plug into a 4x10 bass cab and play through that. I also have a v-amp and even it sounds better than Amplitube.

It sounds horrible as a "guitar amp." If you want to go for a Marshall sound, you have to put up a couple of mics to a Marshall that's cranked really loud. That's what I do when I want a high gain crunch modern metal guitar tone.

Also....Revalver. I once used it to get an EXTREMELY crazy 80's solo sound with insane gain and delay and stuff. It sounded just like a Britney Fox song from 1987 or something. Other than that, I have never found any settings that I truly like on it for guitar. I'd really rather hear the sound of a real amp for some reason.