Voxengo Marquis Compressor

The Voxengo Suite has absolutely made music production and mixing more fun, efficient and creative.  The workflow and visualization of PrimeEQ has made it my go-to Parametric EQ and the sound is pristine.  Crunchessor, Marquis compressor and Deft Compressor are some of the smoothest and most flexible software compressors.  They all have such a wide "sweet spot" and it is hard to make them sound bad, allowing you to focus on creative decisions.  On the mixbus, polysquasher and soniformer are the only compressors I have tried that consistently provide truly transparent compression regardless of the material, while CurveEQ can effortlessly shape a full mix with complete transparency.  Finally Elephant delivers energy, smoothness and loudness like no other limiter, beating out everything else in my toolkit.  Its tweakability makes it suitable for any material.  The entire Voxengo suite of plugins really have something special going on.  No hype, just top level DSP, top level design and top level sound.

Voxengo is a great compressor, which you already know, I'm sure:-) Because there are a lot of parameters, it takes a while to learn where the special place is, but when you do, you can go anywhere from simple control to a signature sound for a particular vocalist.  Also, using the key feature, you can achieve nice deesing at the same stage as the overall compression; similar to to using a treble boosted signal to key the sidechain of a hardware compressor (as opposed to hard multiband compression de-essing, which many plug-in de-essers used).  This seems to work for many vocalists.

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!