I have used this bundle for the occasional bit of sound design work, and have managed to get some great sounds out of it, but my lack of raw musical talent means that I really don't use it as much as someone more talented would.
There's an old industry saying, "behind every dubbing mixer is a failed musician", and that pretty much sums me up. I actually won this in a Facebook competition (see, they do actually have real winners, sometimes.). 99% of my plugins are Post Production orientated, so it won't come as much of a surprise to many, that my least used but still well-regarded plug-in is a collection of VI's - the Rob Papen Explorer Bundle. I tend to be very surgical with my plug-in purchases, which stems from originally not being able to afford the complete bundles of things like Waves or Sonnox, and thus simply purchasing what I need, both to operate and remain compatible with my peers. Now until recently, the Sonnox limiter wasn't a true peak limiter, which a very good reason it hasn't featured in my workflows, but now we have the Sonnox Limiter v2, which is a true peak limiter there is no excuse, other than familiarity, not to use the Sonnox plug-ins, so this article is an excellent reminder to go and try using these excellent plug-ins from Sonnox, thanks Julian.
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The reality is for EQ I tend to just go for the stock EQ7 plug-in, for compression I reach for the Avid Pro Compressor and for limiting it is a toss up between the Avid Pro Limiter and the Nugen Audio ISL2 limiter. The answer is the Sonnox EQ, Dynamics and Limiter. In audio post production, we tend not to use that many plug-ins, and they tend to be the same handful of plug-ins over and over, but this article got me thinking, what plug-ins are in my plug-in folder that I like and really ought to be using. I too have a sizeable plug-in folder most of which I just don't use, but that is mainly because they aren't appropriate to what I do. Mike Thornton - Sonnox EQ And Dynamics Plug-ins Don't get me wrong, I love VBC and other Slate Digital plug-ins as they do a really great job of adding vibe, depth and character to mixes, I just find that I prefer my compressors to sound more gentle than vibey. VBC sold me the idea that I needed hardcore emulations of three famous buss compressors and that my mixes lacked analogue punch without it - in reality, what I wanted was a buss compressor that produced transparent and gentle results. Why? Simple, I slowly reverted back to my previous favourite buss compressor being the very transparent compressor unit in Slate's FG-X mastering plug-in. I mixed through VBC on for about two months then all of a sudden it fizzled out of my workflow. I didn't even demo it before hand as I was very impressed with how it sounded in Slate's marketing video examples. I remember purchasing VBC when it launched. The first plug-in that comes to mind is the Virtual Buss Compressors by Slate Digital. I also have a sizable list of plug-ins I love yet never use. In fact, some of the suggestions from other members of the team were plug-ins I use very regularly.
I asked the team and there didn't seem to much consensus.
They might get instantiated in a session, I might play with them (sometimes it is just play.) but I then move on and use something else. But there is a definite category in there of plug-ins I like a great deal yet never make it on to finished tracks. A few don't get used because they aren't particularly good or just because I don't like them much - sometimes it just comes down to something as arbitrary as how positively I feel about them based on nothing more than a not very carefully considered snap judgement. Others come and go, they might be new and have my attention because of that, they might do something unique, some don't get used as much as they might just because they are good but I have better. I use some of them every time I use Pro Tools. A thought occurred to me recently: I have a lot of plug-ins, not as many as some on the team but still a lot.
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