HIDDEN GEM PLUGINS (with which you'd probably be a billionaire right now if you had them when you were like 20years old)

[spigmu]

Not sure if it's a hidden gem but https://www.kvraudio.com/product/l2007- ... ey-plugins is sometimes cited as a secret among Pro Tools users.

That limiter is very forgiving even for large GR.

Voxengo Elephant is quite similar.

TB Barricade is a close second.

Oh man, I worked out of a place that had the whole Massey line on their PT rig several lifetimes ago, and once I discovered them I put them on everything! I would throw money at him today if he ported them the VST3, as I haven't owned a PT setup in many years. The 2007 had a vibe and it was really good! Had no idea he was still updating them to this day! Probably the only AAX only developer. All of his plugins are stupendous!

I'm a committed toneboosters fan and use Barricade4 all the time. It's terrific but I've never found it to have the mojo of some other brick wall limiters, like the 2007. I guess I need to root around more in the compressor section emulations. I've tried a few and they didn''t do anything for me, and I preferred it with them off, but I didn't give them much of a chance.

[soundmodel]

Crysonic plug-ins. Very unknown, but e.g. Spectralive is mystical, but very CPU-heavy.

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/spectr ... y_crysonic

NewB is a good bass enhancer. It sounds far more natural than e.g. a Waves plug-in.

I used to try Spectralive on dull microphone takes (where the microphone has been misdirected), out of the tools (eq, compressors, ...) available it works best for healing bad quality audio.

[osiris]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 6&t=459674

Always read reviews.

[hotmitts]

Gee, yes, I'd surely be a billionnaire by now if I had only used different plug-ins! Except not!

For me the Nomad factory bundle is the one I'm loving

[soundmodel]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 6&t=459674

Always read reviews.

Yeah I know it was a hazy company, and the plug-ins were quite unoptimized for paid plug-ins, but I haven't found anything comparable in terms of sound. The company also seems to have disappeared.

So my opinion differs. I think Spectralive and newB were great plug-ins.

Maybe https://www.kvraudio.com/product/mpolys ... production is a replacement.

[osiris]

I didn't say they weren't good plugins, just there was quite a bit of drama about them way back in the day.