Sound Production Plugins

I don't know if this counts as Tech Talk, but I'm looking to see what Plugins bands have used in their recordings, to the best of your knowledge, preferably by song (album) and artist (band). I would also welcome your guesses on the plugins that have defined the overall sound of progressive music through the years. I also know that the use of plugins and sound-manipulating softwares is preferential and experimental, but it'll be good to know what others use to achieve their unique sound.

But there are, also, certain sounds that define a band, or instrumentalist, maybe its better to give examples from songs and analyze the sound produced in that particular piece of music. This topic could also serve as a place for users to share their favorite plugins and what they do. I'm actually just getting into recording and am highly concerned with the sound design and overall sound characteristics of my music that is why i wanted to broaden my knowledge on the plugins and what fits were with real life examples that i can listen to.

Thanks for your reply

Thank you, checked it out, 200 seems a little high though

For me, these are some of my favorites:

I myself like the Arturia collection, it seems to have everything. I have a song in which I'm using Farfisa and Prophet 5, I use both of them from Arturia works quite well. I should say that I don't know much about synths as I'm not a keyboard player per se. But about guitars I use Amplitube and it's newest feature tonex, works like a charm. I also have a bunch of cersions of Neural Dsp. I guess I'm wondering aside from amps and simulated instruments, what more I can use, I know there's tape hiss, saturation and all that stuff, i want to get to know them better. I'm also an idiot when it comes to EQ

sydbarrett2010 wrote: Does anyone here have a favorite choir vst, plugin that they could recommend? I mean like something with possibilities for adjustments that would blow my mind. Or do you think it's better to use a synth to simulate that sound? If so, which synth or keyboard does that kind of stuff? Thank you

I would look at stuff that replicates lexicon and Eventide. 

Hi,

A long time ago, I bought the IK Multimedia thing, and in the end, I could not use it ... it required knowing how to use your various MIDI channels so you could put different voices through it ... and be able to "build" a choir ... in the end, it ended up closing down my desire to continue studying the keyboard things, as connecting them to the computer was a serious issue, and the outputs were not compatible with a small Yamaha Mixer ...

(also got the Jupiter 8 VST which I have enjoyed a lot, however, again, getting it connected to the computer for recording something was a hassle and I could never get past the start ... the DAW thing was also an issue ... I could never figure out how I could hear what I had so I could add another track to it)

My thoughts were/are, that compatibility with computers are still out of line and not very good, at least for the general public, but OK if you got someone that knows what they are doing ... I may try to set things up again, and give it another try, but not sure I want to spend money on Reaper (or any other software) and not have any idea how to use them ... and in one attempt to get the answer from a "guru" teacher ot there, his response was that ... he didn't want to help!

Keyboards have been, my favorite thing, but sadly, I have never been able to start up enough to be able to create the very sounds I hear in my head in my dreams ... the translation side of things has been almost impossible for me, and not much help otherwise! I got me, a couple of years ago, a Rolland Gaia SH-01 and it also had connection issues compatibility ... was never able to connect it to a computer ... very disappointing, and then, the worst ... no drivers for W10 or W11 and Rolland is not bothering!

Edited by moshkito - 16 hours 11 minutes ago at 19:26