Favorite Plugin(Vocals)

[PettyCash]

Originally Posted by Wally

My Top 5 Favorite Plugins Are
1.Waves Rverb
2.Waves Ren EQ
3.VComp
4.RComp
5.Waves SSL
6.API-not that much for vocals.
7.Bluetubes Compressors
8.BlueTubes EQ's
9.Auto Tune
10.SoundShifter From Waves For Vocal if u know what i m talking about u can make 1 vocal sound like 4 and it sound awesome if u know what ur doing also try out the Harmony Engine.

lol, I'm still waiting for a good opportunity to try out Harmony in a session. I played around with it on my own for a bit and it seems promising so far.

[phillysoulman]

For eq and comp/limiting
URS CSP
UAD Fairchild
API 550

For reverb Altiverb
Breverb
UAD plate 140

Delay..PSP 42 and 84
PSP Neon
Waves super tap
Waves doubler

[DivineMusic]

For eq and comp/limiting:
URS CSP
Waves ssl 4000 ch.strip
Waves veq3 or 4
Waves Rcomp
Flux epure

For reverb:
Altiverb
Breverb
Oxford


Delay
PSP 608
Waves super tap 6
Waves doubler

[alyricalmind]

Isn't that top 10?

[computa]

renvox.

i always try others when they hit the market but always come back to this.

Tubetech comp plug is nice also

[Jorg]

EQ:

URS N Series
UAD-1 Pultec Pro
Sonalksis

Comp:

UAD LA-2A
UAD 1176LN
Waves RVox

Reverb:

UAD EMT140
Breverb
Altiverb

Channel Strips:

UAD 88RS
URS Channel Strip

[A Fak]

COMPS: UAD-1 LA2A \ UAD-1 1176LN \ UAD Fairchild \ Waves Rcomp \ Sony Oxford

EQ: UAD-1 Pultec \ Tritone Digital Hydratone \ Tritone Digital ClassicTone-560 \
Waves veq3 \ Waves SSL \ Sony Oxford

VERB: UAD-1 PLATE \ IK CSR

DELAY: SOUND TOYS ECHO BOY \ Waves Doubler \ PSP 42

EFFECTS: DaD Tape \ DaD Tube \ UAD-1 Roland Dimension D \ Waves MetaFlanger \
Waves MondoMod \

These are my usual suspects, but as always which ones (if any of the above) depends on the voice\song

[TonyBelmont]

It all depends on what the vocal needs, how it was recorded, etc... I don't use a particular plugin, or have a pre-determined route that I'm going to take before listening to the vocal itself. I just make decisions based on what's in front of me at that given time.

[s12512]

Waves Audio Track
Melodynethumbsupthumbsupthumbsupthumbsup
Waves SuperTap-2

vocals are recorded pretty well so i dont need too much more then that

Waves MondoMod & Doubler for fun!!

[E-Irizarry]

Originally Posted by s12512

Waves Audio Track
Melodynethumbsupthumbsupthumbsupthumbsup
Waves SuperTap-2

vocals are recorded pretty well so i dont need too much more then that

Waves MondoMod & Doubler for fun!!

Yeah I don't see what the fascination is with Waves Doubler. It just sits idly in my VSTfx DAW soft rack. I will give it a go sometime in the next few days, and get back to you guys on that - if I demo it. When I did demo it before, it just didn't give my vocals what I was looking for. It might have been because the vocals were too "dry". Now that I know how to de-dry vocals, I will show Waves Doubler some love again.

Waves SuperTap...ok ok I seem that PSM and s12512
have co-signed on it. So I will give it a go sometime soon too.

Onto my list that's good for vocals:

1) Number fukkin' 1 here: Voxengo Voxformer.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it....really.
This VST kicks Antares Mic Modeler's ass on the double (no pun intended to Waves Doubler.) *Roger from What's Happening Now kind of laugh*

2) Jesusonic (affiliated with Cockos/REAPER) Noise Gate:
The best noise gate ever! Holy fukkin sheeeeit!
For example, a user can record in a room of people talking shit and if the user/engineer sets the cardoid mic to only pic up in one direction and if that user is directly in front of the mic close enough while a whole bunch of people a hecklin' and chattin away. This noise gate will filter out the hecklin' into light "static" in the background and the user vocals will have clarity.

3) Dry/Wet filter in iZotope Ozone 3. Yup I set the Wet filter on 1.0 for basic vocal plate reverb and set the Dry filter on 45% to 65% of the original vocal signal.

3) Waves C4 - what such an unbiased compressor!!! It works on anything!!

4) Crysonic Spectra'PHY - what a kick-ass transparent limiter. I keep the settings on default and just pump up the Input signal if necessary. Every now and then, the vocalist (me or anybody else) may have been too close to the mic and in that rare instance, the Output would be lowered a fraction of a decibel.

[Philly]

I love Voxformer by Voxengo - really simple channel strip.

All so ohmfoce's Ohmicide plug is just awesome on messing up anysound - vocals included.

[dhiltonlittle]

chandler/emi tg12412 is my new favorite vocal eq.

stumbled across it yesterday in a mix when nother else was working and was absolutely blown away. i'd never used it on vocals before.

[irthwirm]

Love the URS N series for eq.

[VPiktor]

LA-2A, Digi EQ, Soundtoys, D3 EQ, 1176.

[Alxi]

In no particular order

R Vox
URS API
Uniquel-izer
VC-64 ( Kjaerhus GAC-1 repack for sonar )
SpitFish

-Alxi-

[Wally]

Rcomp Rvox Are Great Comps!

[James Meeker]

Just give me a good de-esser, and a limiter and I'm set.

[s12512]

Originally Posted by VPiktor

LA-2A, Digi EQ, Soundtoys, D3 EQ, 1176.

how does the La-2a sound in comparison to the actual rack???

[thethrillfactor]

None.

The more dynamic & important the instrument, the more i count on outboard to preserve & process its sound.

Especially vocals.

My opinion.

[VPiktor]

Originally Posted by s12512

how does the La-2a sound in comparison to the actual rack???

I am using Uad TDM version of La-2A! Man its sounds Really good Only for Plug-in!
But hardware sounds much and much better!

[Wally]

Waves URS Blue Tubes UAD are good but i want to know if any of you have mix hiphop or rnb or rap or any other not rock or acoustic stuff with outboard gear and name it

[7thangelz]

depends, but la2a, fairchild, pultec, 1176 (uad or bombs), mcdsp's comps and eq's, epure, sonalksis and psp tend to get used more often. reverb wise, breverb and psp. delay fabfilter's stuff (their pro c comp is wicked too)

[gregohb]

Originally Posted by Wally

My Top 5 Favorite Plugins Are
1.Waves Rverb
2.Waves Ren EQ
3.VComp
4.RComp
5.Waves SSL
6.API-not that much for vocals.
7.Bluetubes Compressors
8.BlueTubes EQ's
9.Auto Tune
10.SoundShifter From Waves For Vocal if u know what i m talking about u can make 1 vocal sound like 4 and it sound awesome if u know what ur doing also try out the Harmony Engine.

How long have you been a spokesman for Waves?

[bgrotto]

In order from most useful to least:

- Digi EQ III for high pass
- Digi DeEsser
- BF Moogerfooger delay
- RVox
- Autotune

[gregohb]

Originally Posted by E-Irizarry

Yeah I don't see what the fascination is with Waves Doubler. It just sits idly in my VSTfx DAW soft rack. I will give it a go sometime in the next few days, and get back to you guys on that - if I demo it.

I am surprised to see so many reverbs mentioned here. I thought that was kind of old school. Its really an art to get a good sounding vocal without reverb.

Originally Posted by E-Irizarry

Number fukkin' 1 here: Voxengo Voxformer.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it....really.
This VST kicks Antares Mic Modeler's ass on the double (no pun intended to Waves Doubler.) *Roger from What's Happening Now kind of laugh*

I had not really looked into this before, but in looking at it, it seems to be primarily a channel strip with a two band compressor. It seems to be more geared toward ease of use rather than offering anything new (from reading their page about it). I don't see anything about microphone modeling though - and Antares discontinued that product long ago.

Originally Posted by E-Irizarry

2) Jesusonic (affiliated with Cockos/REAPER) Noise Gate:
The best noise gate ever! Holy fukkin sheeeeit!
For example, a user can record in a room of people talking shit and if the user/engineer sets the cardoid mic to only pic up in one direction and if that user is directly in front of the mic close enough while a whole bunch of people a hecklin' and chattin away. This noise gate will filter out the hecklin' into light "static" in the background and the user vocals will have clarity.

Does that really improve the sound? I just use the marquee tool in logic and cut out all that stuff.

[E-Irizarry]

Greg-O, it really does improve the sound. You might think Voxformer is simple, but it strips away alot of the naughty bits with ease. It works for me contrary to what the non-believers and haters may say.

Yeah but the Jesusonic Noise Gate is even better than Sonalksis´s Noise Gater. Problem is that the JNG only, from what it seems like, can be used with any version of REAPER only and not with any other DAW.

I´m going to demo Samplitude v10.1 tonight. If there´s a good or better noise gate in Samplitude and if the mixdown resampling (at the 4096pt SINE wave level non'realtime extreme setting) in at least OGG, and/or AIF (AIFF) and/or WAV-W64 formats exist and/or with Pow'r 3 dithering, then I will have to throw REAPER under the bus and revive her when its convinent for me. Baahahahahaha!

[Keyflo]

Compressors:
1. Waves Rcomp
2. Waves C4 (Rcomp doesnt always work on R&B vocals)

EQ's
1. Waves Q10
2. Waves R EQ 6
3. Pushtec (Free)

Effects.
1. PSP 42
2. Audio damage Fluid
3. Stock Steinberg Cubase SX 3 Modulation effects (Dont sleep)
4. Princeton Digital
5. Wizzo verb
6. FL studio reverb (ounce again dont sleep)

I dont have many plugins in my arsenal, but i think this is enough to get the job done, especially at my level of mixing, which isnt that high compared to some of u guys on here.....

[Keyflo]

Originally Posted by Wally

6.API-not that much for vocals..

Uh Oh DOnt let Sam Thomas aka "Sam I Am" come to this thread and find your not using those API's on lead vocal......LMAO

[jikky]

Sonnox Bundle
PSP 84
URS CSP
what comes with Cubase