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over to the dark side. I am going.

I need a bundle of plugins to use for mixing. Nothing fancy or weird. I want some replications of gear that is actually used in real life and sees real results.

I was looking at this ..

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GoldNat/

and this

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EveryEQCompNat/

but maybe there is something cooler someone can point me in the direction of? I like the gold pack because of some of the maybe useful doubling, deessing, and verbs... but the URL pack might have better sounding eq and comps


I also need a good guitar and bass amp modeling plugin... I am looking at guitar rig. bueller?

Many of these plugins have free trial versions.

Give Guitar Rig and Amplitube a try for amp modeling. For doing scratch takes, they are great.

IK Multimedia has a great reverb pack, but it is pricey. (At least if you get it legitimately...)

I use pod farm, very happy. Has loads of amp & effect sims for guitar & bass plus some stuff for vocals.

Plugz
The Waves plugins are used all over the fucking place, but personally I didn't really like them when I used them. Everything I use now is free or nagware.



Amp Simulation
I use a lot of free stuff for guitar amp simulation. My favorite preamp is Wagner Sharp and Wagner Sharp II. I use those with Voxengo Boogex and load my own speaker impulses - which are from the power section of my Laney GH100TI Tony Iommi amp and wgs veteran 30's.

Download the free trial of Peavey's Revalver, I really liked it. You can also load your own impulses in it if you want to.

I'm not much of a fan of amp simulation but a very good plugin for mixing / mastering is Izotope Ozone. It's only 250$ and if you got a teacher in the family it's only 125$. Can't go wrong with that price for a nice set of plugins. Check it out as it is definitely worth while. I'd go to gearslutz.com and check out some threads on there as there are a ton of engineers with their own tastes but some give great reviews of their setups.

digital fishphones has some of the best free plugins for mixing. digitalfishphones.com

Soundtoys apparently has some cool new plugins and a free 45 day demo or something like that. A buddy of mine has been using them and speaks real highly of them. I still have yet to check them out.