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Plugs I love:
Lindell 80 - the best all-round Neve console emu I've tried, only annoyance is the knobs move very quickly with the mouse so it's hard to dial in less than about 1/2 db change.
BX_N - this is based on a more modern neve, and it is immensely useful. The compressor is precise without being lifeless, and the EQ is very easy to use, with sharp shelf filters and mid bands that can go even tighter than SSL's channel EQs for removing resonances.
TE100 - Nothing else does what this EQ does, it's got very unique filter shapes and a very good analogue emulation.
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I would also add the Townhouse compressor, which is great bus compressor.
SSL-E is all over the album I just made though
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I've demoed it, and liked it. But since I'm happy and familiar with IK's SSL bus comp, I passed. The GUI isn't amazing - lots of empty space and small controls, but the sound is good.
Problem is, to justify the sub model they exclude the ones I'd be really excited about from the deals - Lindell API 50 and Shadow Hills Class A. I'd buy them at $29.99 any day.
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The many others that didn't make the favourites list are all great. Overall quality is so good that it's hard to go wrong with anything from PA.
I compared the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor with the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor Class A, much preferred the 'regular', not Class A version...
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
I've used the non-class A version on tracks (e.g. vocals), parallel group compression busses, and maybe occasionally on the mix bus.
Favourites for bus compression remain the PSP Buspressor and PSP Oldtimer, but I've used others, depending on the mix, including U-He Presswerk, Townhouse, Scheps Omni Channel, Waves Puigchild, PSP Mastercomp, etc.
One more advantage of Plugin Alliance is their easy, no-nonsense installation and copy protection - the complete opposite of iLok protected plugins like the Sonnox Oxford plugs (or the insane Waves Update Plan).
I had iLok screw up my whole system with their crappy software once, so it's zero tolerance for this unnecessary, outdated nonsense these days...
I've also been migrating away from Waves to better companies like Plugin Alliance because of WUP. The plugin market is highly competitive, with lots of excellent products, no need to remain with companies that screw over paying customers, IMHO.
If so, that's a must have.