Help me pick my 3rd Plugin

[the29band]

So I am getting the Select 3 bundle and need to pick the 3rd plugin. The two I am getting are Topline and Distortion Bundle. I have narrowed down the below for my 3rd one with some thoughts. Please provide your thoughts, thanks!

- SSL 4000 E (while this might be really popular, my challenge is i feel like i don't need another channel strip. I have API, Manley, Century and SSL versions of Brainworx)
- Electra 88 (while this will be unique, I am not sure how much use it will get) I have a Toontrack version that gets the job done
- Hitsville Chambers (I have many reverbs - Capitol, Ocean Way, Lexicons, Valhalla Room, Sound City, AMS and maybe a couple others that I can't remember)
- Korg Delay (Again I have a few delays i.e. echoboy, cooper delay, AMS, Tape Echo etc)
- Waterfall B3 (I have IK's B3) I tested this against the IK version I have and this will be redundant

BTW I have many preamps, channel strips, compressors, EQs etc. I have the 3 UAD amp sims so it's really hard to pick this 3rd plugin. Any other recommendations?

Done: Got the Topline, Distortion Bundle and the AKG Spring Reverb.

 

[David MacNeill]

Waterfall B3 FTW!

 

[klasaine]

I’m a horrible keyboard player but having the Waterfall and the Electra have made me (a little) better because I do use them frequently. They sound so good that you don’t actually have to play that much.

In lieu of either of those, the Korg sdd3000 delay. There is nothing else like it out there in delay land.

 

[CraigF]

So I am getting the Select 3 bundle and need to pick the 3rd plugin. The two I am getting are Topline and Distortion Bundle. I have narrowed down the below for my 3rd one with some thoughts. Please provide your thoughts, thanks!

- SSL 4000 E (while this might be really popular, my challenge is i feel like i don't need another channel strip. I have API, Manley, Century and SSL versions of Brainworx)
- Electra 88 (while this will be unique, I am not sure how much use it will get) I have a Toontrack version that gets the job done
- Hitsville Chambers (I have many reverbs - Capitol, Ocean Way, Lexicons, Valhalla Room, Sound City, AMS and maybe a couple others that I can't remember)
- Korg Delay (Again I have a few delays i.e. echoboy, cooper delay, AMS, Tape Echo etc)
- Waterfall B3 (I have IK's B3) I tested this against the IK version I have and this will be redundant

BTW I have many preamps, channel strips, compressors, EQs etc. I have the 3 UAD amp sims so it's really hard to pick this 3rd plugin. Any other recommendations?

FWIW, I think the Electra and Waterfall are as good as Rhodes and B3 emulations can get.

I really like the Korg delay.

The Culture Vulture was what nudged me to get the select 3. I have a very bland, boring voice, and it added enough character that I can tolerate listening to it. I also got the Ruby and Dream amp sims. I have a real '65 Deluxe Reverb and as soon as I heard the sim I realized it sounded better than I ever get the amp to with my lousy room and poorer mic technique.

 

[the29band]

FWIW, I think the Electra and Waterfall are as good as Rhodes and B3 emulations can get.

they are good and if I didn’t have the IK and Toontrack equivalents I’d go for those but for me they’d be somewhat redundant.

it’s amazing that I can’t think of another UAD plugin that i need/want. Have i arrived?

 

[the29band]

Alright, I think I might be getting the AKG BX 20 Spring Reverb. I think it's somewhat different from other Reverbs that I have.

 

[LouisC]

it’s amazing that I can’t think of another UAD plugin that i need/want. Have i arrived?

Yes.
Remember this moment.

 

[XL_Erate]

they are good and if I didn’t have the IK and Toontrack equivalents I’d go for those but for me they’d be somewhat redundant.

it’s amazing that I can’t think of another UAD plugin that i need/want. Have i arrived?

I think for many of us the choice in a Rhodes plugin is we are trying to find the one that gets us as close to the real Rhodes we are accustom to when coupled to a good controller.

 

[chrisharbin]

SSL, nuff said.