What are your go-to effects plugins?

[bill5]

I only have two offhand (I use other effects, but don't have any particular plugins I use for them):

EQ - TDR Nova
Reverb - Valhalla Vintage Verb and Supermassive

 

[CrimsonWarlock]

EQ: TDR SlickEQ GE, SlickEQ Mastering, Nova GE, and Cubase Frequency 2 (stock).
Compression: Klanhelm DC8C & MJUC, TDR Kotelnikov GE.
Reverb: Klanghelm TENS, VOS EpicVerb II, Audiothing Fog Convolver 2.
Delay: QDelay (free), Audiothing Outer Space 2, Mantis, EchoCube.
Saturation: Klanghelm SDRR, CHOW Tape, VOS FerricTDS 2.

 

[Nitrateaudio]

I find I use the Mutator a lot lately. Also the XLN RC-20.

 

[BDT]

The ones I use in almost every project:

• Frequency (Cubase stock plugin)
• MultiTap Delay (Cubase stock plugin)
• Valhalla Shimmer
• NI Guitar Rig, I use it as effect on guitars (obviously), strings (pls don't tell the guys over at VI-Control) and synths.

 

[CrimsonWarlock]

• MultiTap Delay (Cubase stock plugin)

Yep, that's a beast of a delay. I don't know of any delay plugin that'll top its functionality. Pretty crazy how far they went with that, especially for a stock effect.

 

[Polkasound]

I use various IK Multimedia effects on every one of my productions. The plate reverb in their Fame Studio plugin is my go-to plate for vocals. For bread & butter hall and room reverbs, I've been using their CSR plugins for many years because they are insanely editable. I often recreate vintage music, so I've gotten plenty of use out of their Roland Space Delay and Tape Echo. For all other delays, I typically use the stock Cubase plugins. I also get a lot of use out of Valhalla Shimmer.

 

[HCMarkus]

AudioEase Altiverb
Fab Filter EQ4
Soundtoys Devil-Loc Deluxe
iZotope Ozone
Waves Sibilance and MaxVolume
oeksound Soothe