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.audioI am using quite a few of your plugins as bus masters for film & TV sound post. Elephant after Polysquasher is fantastic to envelope the final mix and peak limiter for broadcast specs. Voxformer is an excellent way to control and punch vocals without sounding over processed. Soniformer is my preferred plugin for music pre mix stems but until recently, I wasn't quite happy with a compressor for FX stem control, but the new Drumformer is perfect for this.
HarmoniEQ and GlissEQ are both really useful to enhance without fatigue and also interesting EQs to use on denoised material. Great plugins and so reasonable priced. They work perfectly in my Fairlight host.
Michael Gissing , Digital City Studios, Australia.