SLATE VCC SUCKS PRO

If were brand new to mixing and just practicing my craft as a hobby, IвЂ™d stick with my stock plugins and make it work. But then again, I make a living using these plugins week in and week out. Now, those are all wonderful plugins that I think are worth every penny of what I paid for them. That being said, I can (and have) mix in headphones and reference on other speakers, which eliminates the need for the ARC all together. This has totally helped my mixes translate out in the real world and I hate mixing without it. If I could include one more (and I will) it would be the ARC 2 from IK Multimedia. And Ozone gives you that final limiting you need, along with some great multiband compression and other sonic goodies. The buss compressor and VCC simply glue things together in a way that I miss if I have to mix without them. The CLA-2a gives different compression style to the SSL and really is great on vocals. The channel strip is my biggest tool for carving and sculpting tracks. Izotope Ozone (all around amazing plugin of plugins for mastering or finishing off a mix)Д«etween my stock plugins and the above five 3rd party plugs, I can do really anything I want sonically in the mix.Slate Digital Virtual Console Collection (major analog bang for your CPU usage buck).Slate Digital Virtual Buss Compressors (recent purchase, but does amazing things on my mix buss).Waves CLA-2A (my вЂњcolorвЂќ compressor that seems to enhance just about anything it touches).Waves SSL E Channel (my workhorse EQ and compression, so smooth and musical).At this moment (summer 2013) my narrowed down list looks like this: Rather I want to use the tools that make me work quickly, creatively, and effectively. I refuse to use a plugin only because I dropped money on it. Neither of which are feelings I want when trying to break the cycle of self doubt as a mixer! ItвЂ™s Time To Narrow Things DownДЇor my own mental sanity and creative focus IвЂ™m going to narrow down my plugin list to only the plugins I deem worthy to be on my go-to list. It slows me down when I mix and reminds me of the money IвЂ™ve wasted. Do I need 75+ plugins sitting in my plugin menu? No.

SLATE VCC SUCKS PRO

If we exclude any of my other DAWs and look primarily at Pro Tools, this puts me with a total plugin count of around 75.ДЄm I using all $3500 worth of plugins week and week out on mixes for my clients? No. And that is excluding any DAW purchases or upgrades (which I estimate as probably at least an additional $1750!). In the past decade IвЂ™ve spent at least $3500 on 3rd party plugins. I tried hard to think back on how many plugins IвЂ™ve purchased over the past 10 years and how much money that represents. Via Jimee, Jackie, Tom & AshaВ Flickr How Much IвЂ™ve Spent On Plugins Over The Years So todayвЂ™s post will be a bit more personal, to my situation, but hopefully it will get you to think. Maybe not for you, but for me personally in my studio, itвЂ™s time to shed some dead weight and narrow down my actual day to day plugin list. On the heels of last weekвЂ™s post about plugins being the worst investment in your studio, I have an announcement to make: itвЂ™s time for a plugin purge.

Slate vcc sucks