What are your 'secret weapon' plugins other than eq and compressor?

[Transistor]

All three from Intelligent Devices, Camelspace and AD Automaton. All for kicking the creativity in the head.

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[Little David]

Fabfilter Volcano 2. Every track!

[goddfodder]

I wouldn't say its a secret weapon i use a lot. But a nice thing to have in your collection is Magnus Jonsson Ambience. Used sparingly its a whole new dimension. Its a free download. Its not an every day kinda thing, But its cool to have, great to use.

I have a lot of cool paid for plugins, but this for a free b is outstanding.

PS, Just got Waves Classic Compressors in the deal that's on. They are looking promising right now. The Waves Studio Classics also get a lot of use.

[billcarroll]

Echoboy

[samsam]

CamelPhat
Waves SuperTap
Xfer LFOTool

[chronmaster]

Soundtoys Decapitator. Just push the "punish" button and turn the gain all the way up. Problematic source material fixed. (no, for real)

[albatrossy]

Sonnox SuperEsser... And I don't even work with vocals that much.

Edit: Cytomic's The Drop is one of the smoothest filters I have ever heard... Sonic Charge's µTonic is great for adding a little flair to drums... So many great plug-ins. ValhallaVintageVerb is next on my buy list.

[steveschizoid]

Surfer EQ - an intelligent EQ that boosts/cuts harmonics that correspond with the detected pitch - very cool!

Originally Posted by chronmaster

Soundtoys Decapitator. Just push the "punish" button and turn the gain all the way up. Problematic source material fixed. (no, for real)

I have a mastering job right now that I'd like to fix this way.

[ultra171]

Neve 5042 for Nebula. Makes mixing easier.
PSP Lexicon 42.

[ExplosiveCorn]

The MClass Maximizer that comes with Reason. I couldn't keep a steady and reasonable output level without it.

[iLex]

- Slate VCC (overall sound)
- Slate VTM (overall sound)
- UAD SPL Transient designer (works magic on many things)
- Brainworx bx_dynEQ (For annoying resonances, subtle 'ducking' and those interesting situations where two instruments briefly clash on the same frequency)
- Waves Z-noise/X-noise

[Muser]

AU Multiband compressor.
IK Reverbs
CamelPhat
Airwindows Sample Delay & Phase Nudger.

[Sensorychaos]

Lfo tool (probably 10x per project....)
Dcam env shaper
Slate VCC
Slate fg-x
Echoboy
Turnado
The drop

[apartment dog]

Variety of Sound Ferric TDS (Classic or Modern Tape)
Vaiety of Sound Tessla Pro mk2 (Vintage)
TB Reelbus
Sir Elliot RT-1, GPA2
Antress Modern Black Dragon
DigitalFishPhones Dominion
Camelphat
Meldaproduction Creative Bundle
Slate Digital RCTube
Nebula
Cableguys Volumeshaper

[che_guitarra]

Podfarm - Sweep Echo

[FrankieP]

Originally Posted by DeadPoet

Ohm Force Ohmboyz: only does one thing for me: click preset '2' and then preset '1' and instant stereo trippy.


Herwig

Same here! There's a preset on Ohmboyz that i really like to add it on certain tracks. I especially like to add it on guitars, effects and spoken word vocals to give it that trippy stereo effect. The preset is called "Simple Delay LPF LFO".
The other "secret weapon" plug i use a lot is discoDSP's ThrillMe.

[StringBean]

NI Guitar Rig 5. Hidden gems galore.

[intuitionnyc]

Some of my favs right now are:

1) Ohmboyz - Predatohm
2) Soundtoys - Filterfreak and Echoboy
3) Audioease - Altiverb and Speakerphone 2
4) SPL - Transient Designer and Twintube

[chronmaster]

Originally Posted by StringBean

NI Guitar Rig 5. Hidden gems galore.

It's true. Lots of good shit in there.

[Deepspell]

spl twintube

[junglistric]

fruity blood overdrive

[Red Black]

• Trash
• Reaktor [audio]
• Ubermod
• V Room
• Guitar Rig 1 [not for guitars]
• Satson
• BOD [Sansamp emulation]
• Mono/Stereo Channel