Mixing plugins

Hi everyone , Im looking to purchase some new plugins for mixing and mastering.

Im currently using Cubase sx3 and wavelab 5 with DFH Superior, Im looking for some good compressors and eqs etc.

I have heard the wave plugins are good but not sure what to go for alot of products on their site.

Can anyone suggest a bundle package or something.

Cheers

http://www.sonalksis.com/

These people have a really good reputation for their software, many people claiming it sounds as good or better than hardware. I tried one of their compressors and I thought it was very good.

diamond bundle will fix anything gold bundles good but i dont think it has line EQ

Universal Audio UAD-1 has some of the best comp and EQ plugs in my opinion.

I don't use Waves stuff anymore. The plugs are good, just too much of a pian to work with.

Stay away from waves... there support is crap and they have little to no loyalty to customers. nevermind a horrible plug in architecture & overpriced. .

i've done allot of trial an error finding the best in the box solutions for myself.

I've made a list of what i prefer http://www.rhythminmind.net/Tools.html

for colored EQ's & Compressers. http://www.ursplugins.com/ also http://www.samplitude.com/eng/vst/klangwerkzeuge.html is a must for me

for transparent http://www.wavearts.com/ great stuff & a great company.

for mastering http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/ really great tool if used right.

Show me a waves plugin and i'll find you a better solution.

I used to use waves until i got sick of there same sound & were pricks over the phone when i needed new authorizations for a project at work after a system died. I mean we have multibale bundles of there crap. spent $$$$$'s with them. They also don't won't use ilok.com for there iloks makes it one more thing thats a pain in the ass to deal with.

I use Waves REQs. I've heard many complaints about their customer service. I've never had to use their customer service, so I don't know. I have the Renaissance bundle, and the EQs are useful. I can't really compare them to too many other things that are similar (I have JoeMeek and Bomb Factory Pulteq, neither of which are similar to the Waves EQs), but they do work well and have a good, usable interface. The De-Esser and RCompressor that come along with the package are also very useful. Good bread and butter package.

waves are only okay... there are better companies out there cheaper, some even free.

psp, izotope, urs, sonalksis spring to mind for pay plugs...

those kjager plugs are free and decent, fish fillets [i think they are called], loads of freeVSTs really.

for mixing anything really that makes you smile is good... for the "mastering" part i like the izotope ozone3 and psp mastercomp/vw/masterQ/neon stuff.

altiverb is the only verb i have fallen in love with as a plugin. the rest are so so... wasnt as big a fan of the waves IR in comparison. there are some more IR things out there besides those as well.

god there are so many out there i cant think of many right now, i would have to go look to remember.

Go look, go look please, haha, no seriously thank you people; alot to look at here.

Any links you could post for free stuff would be great.

I am in the process of looking at all the purchase only stuff. Need to complete some research into it all to make a decision.

Anyone who may have some other ideas please feel free to let me know,

Again thanks to all for your help.

Awesome!

Most companies have demo plug-ins that you can download and try out, which should help with your decision.

I'm a fan of Nomad Factory. Some of their stuff is designed to color the sound, some is more transparent.

http://www.nomadfactory.com

Hi, I use alot of the Voxengo stuff http://www.voxengo.com. Also I use the UAD stuff. Great plugs!

for bread-and-butter compression, eqs, and reverbs on the VST platform, these are my favourites:

cheers.

~j.d.

Thanks Phil your a legend, any particular free plugins you recommend?

I think Tritone is the one with the Hydratone EQ, and if that's so, I really like that EQ a lot, although I didn't care for the interface so much.

yeah, ui left voxengo off but those are really cool.

ha, digitalfishphones, i was calling them the fish filets. i can never remember the name of that company.

as for freeVSTs, just google it.... LOADS will come up.

Great thread.

I'm also gettting off the Waves bandwagon very soon and need some pro quality replacements. Lots of good suggestions here.

"Fish Filets" is the bundle, Digitalfishphones is the company.

i like dominion from them, except hte fact they dont have the delay compensation in it so Nuendo doesnt pick it up.

Yeah the Digitalfishphones guy (Sascha Eversmeier) Now works for Magix.. He designed the Analog modeling suite for Samplitude. They now have them as VST plugins. There great.. I'm the only one i know using them. I kinda like that actually.. http://www.samplitude.com/eng/vst/uebersicht.html

Sadly they are for Pro Tools only (RTAS or TDM) so for other users they are useles.

i will have to check these out.

That's 2 of us!

Actually I'm not doing mixing right now and haven't ran the AM suite thru it's paces yet but I am digging Variverb Pro. Good 'ole Sasha - he done good.

Right now I'm breakin in SEQ2 mastering EQ, a huge FFT Linear Phase plugin. The FFT can go from 2048 (CurveEQ size) to 4096 (Firium size) to 16K (Ozone3 size) all the way up to 128K FFT size. It's a spline EQ and is truely Firium on steriods:

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2007/NuGen-Audio-SEQ-Series.html

The other cool fun FREE one I've been messing around with is NEBULA. This one is "...equipment modelling software based *VST plugin, Acusticaudio has been overwhelmed by the response to their revolutionary Vectorial Volterra Kerneling Technology (VVKT). " Anyway if you like fooling around with emulations kinda like what's in the Liquid Mix (I'm guessing - except this isn't the patented sinifex dynamic convolution) give this a try. There's a free version also coming out in the May2007 issue of Computer Music with a bunch of equipment sample libraries. It's a little complicated to figure out what to download but the instructions and explainations are over here (once you register and log in):

http://www.acusticaudio.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=581

Anyway I found out about these gems over at KVR for you VSTers, also some are PC only like Nebula.