Voxengo GlissEQ
Hello,
I'm sort of new with DAW's, previously I "decided" to go with samplitude, but later found it to restrictive since it can't handle 7.1 surround (or itself without crashing), unless one looses his/her mind and cough's up $3000 for Sequoya. My choice has fallen on Reaper, which is clearly above everything I've ever likely to come across. As THE DAW it is capable of doing everything I / you could ever need, especially when combining it with Voxengo's plugins, WOW!, I mean you people are incredible, and I know that because my ears tells me so. The end result is everything that ever mattered, which is why we're all doomed, but that's another story ;o)
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.