Voxengo TEOTE

There are many great useful plug-in tools out there, no doubt, but once in a while a truly brilliant plug-in is developed.  TEOTE belongs to the second categroy for me, whether as a subtle spectral balancer in a mastering scenario or as a very musical sounding repair tool for poorly recorded live recordings.  It is able to refresh and balance the sound with a very natural organic and dynamic feel, free of swishy FFT artefacts that some other spectral balancing tools out there have.  Brilliant!  Love it

This is the underlying magic that most of the online 'mastering with AI' uses but it gives you access to the real params, very knob is important.  Time spent here will pay off well, and it tightens everything up in a way you weren't expecting.  Hidden gem.

It's pretty simple why Voxengo plugins are so good - Alexsey has a better ear compared to other developers.

His plugins sound so 'musical'.  I've used many other plugins that technically perform their designed function, yet somehow just don't sound good.

I now have a whole set of expensive plugins that are just taking up drive space.  They simply don't sound as good as thier Voxengo counterparts.