Voxengo GlissEQ

Year after year after year, Voxengo Gliss remains the heavy-weight champion in all my work when it comes to surgical and dynamic EQing (linear-phase 8x oversampling settings).  I repeatedly pit Gliss against new contenders.  It always comes out on top, taking out Waves C4/C6 without breaking a sweat and has dominated every dynamic EQ that has emerged since.  It just sounds better in every way, whether it's a shelf or a node or a low/high-pass filter.  Plus it's more flexible.  People don't realize that every node is potentially a powerful transient shaper.  Also, the harmonic saturation mode is not to be underestimated.  For thrills, I once opened Gliss EQs on every track of a mix with a wide saturation Q and a few tenths of a dB gain.  It sounded better than all but one of the console emulations on the market at that point in time, crushing many expensive well know console knock-offs.

I cannot say enough good things about Gliss.  It is a legendary classic in my view that may well be the end all be all of linear-phase EQs.  And now that it is compatible with AAX, there's no excuse for everyone not to be using it.

loadestone.audio

There is no greater value in the world of plug-ins than Voxengo.  GlissEQ is a masterpiece that always provides beautiful and musical results.  The large number of filter types (18) in GlissEQ is a real plus.  So is the spectrum analyzer provided with all Voxengo equalizers, which eliminates any guesswork.  I especially appreciate the presets provided with each plugin as a starting point, easy mid/side processing, and the ability to manually control so many parameters in each plugin.  The combination of GlissEQ, VariSaturator, TransGainer, and Elephant provide an unlimited palette of sound sculpting options.

John Geisel

I love the fact that Aleksey doesn't assume which platform his users are making music on.  Instead, he offers plugins for several platforms, including Vista x64, which is a big plus for me.  Thanks, Voxengo!

Ian Anderson