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.
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