suggestions from users

[joenovice]

I'm about to buy a Flexi pack and want some advice.... which plugins to get with the voucher?

What plugins do you like most or use most? I think I want (a reverb), LA-2a, Fairchild 670, (an EQ). Are there any plugins that people have agreed are not as good as others?

thanks in advance

 

[Matt Hepworth]

I think the consensus of \"must-haves\" are:

1073
1176LN
LA-2A
Fairchild
Pultec Pro

Followed by:

other Neve plugs
Cambridge
Plate 140
Precision plugs (required if you master in your DAW)

 

[wishingwell]

I think the consensus of "must-haves" are:

1073
1176LN
LA-2A
Fairchild
Pultec Pro

Followed by:

other Neve plugs
Cambridge
Plate 140
Precision plugs (required if you master in your DAW)

What he said.


P.S. Only difference is i'm not the biggest fan of cambridge, it's alright to me tho. And whole Neve bundle would be in first list aswell, for me anyways.

 

[lhama]

La2a + fairchild is 149 a piece...

Then you want a reverb and a EQ

Reverb:
Plate 149
Dreamverb 149

EQ
1073 249
1081 249
Precision eq 199
Pultec pro 79,99
Cambridge 149


I think you need more than one voucher to get all that. My sugestion is to get the La2a, the Plate reverb and the peq, or use another 50, and get the 1073 or 1081 instead of the peq.

But you will end up buying all of the plugs anyway....

 

[Fairlight]

I bought my card (2nd hand) with the LA-2A and 1176LN naturally included as it was the Mackie distributed card.

Soon after, just before Christmas (when they HUGE discount offer was available), I bought:

Plate 140
Cambridge EQ
Pultec Pro
Fairchild

These are must haves (IMO), especially at the price they were.

If money is no issue, get the Neve stuff too. I badly want these, or initially the 1073. I'd prefer them all, but I can't afford the bundle and I don't want to buy just the 1073 either because when I do find the money to get the other 2 plugins, to complete the bundle, I won't get it for the bundle price (confirmed with UA sales). It think UA might be losing out here...

I have the same urge with the Roland / Boss bundle. I will just do without until either there is another can't resist offer or revised upgrade path.

I do feel in the end though, as someone else pointed out, we will buy ALL eventually.

Regards,
Peter

 

[joenovice]

Good tips... Are there any new plugins yet to be released?

 

[robi]

I want to answer the other way around, what's not a must have in my opinion:

- Cambridge EQ
- Dreamverb

too special for me to be must have:

- Roland CE-1
- Precision Bundle

My alltime favorite must have plugins (even after release of Neve):

- LA-2A
- 1176LN
- Fairchild 670
- Plate 140
- Pultec Pro

In my opinion the best option is a used Mackie Card + 1 Flexi (or any other that comes with a voucher) since you'll want more than one card anyway, for processing power. The Mackie Card can be found quite cheap these days, if you're a little patient, so buying the 1176LN and LA-2A seperatly is wasted money, I think, since they cost quite the same as a Mackie Card which contains them anyway. With the voucher I'd go for the rest of \"my alltime favorits, then for the Neve bundle. That leads me to the conclusion a Mackie card + a PCIe Expert pack is a very good option, if you have PCIe.

 

[joenovice]

I'm suprised to see the Plate rank higher than the DreamVerb. I guess I was fooled visually. :lol:

 

[Fairlight]

I'm suprised to see the Plate rank higher than the DreamVerb. I guess I was fooled visually. :lol:

I tried the DreamVerb, it was nice, but was totally blown away with the simplicity and sound of the Plate 140. It's the reverb I'd been seeking for ages. It's not ideal in all situations, but when it is used, it shines.

P

 

[secretworld]

I love the plate and dreamverb (and fairchild and .....)

 

[Fairlight]

I love the plate and dreamverb (and fairchild and .....)

Essentially.... WE LOVE THEM ALL

 

[TheHopiWay]

I bought my first card the week it was released and have grabbed every plug as it came available.
For me the daily use ones with no counterparts in waves or TC etc. are;
1073, LA2, Plate 140 and Dimension D.

Other favorites are;
Space Echo, Fairchild, the other neves, Prec. EQ, Prec. Limiter and 1176

Ones I could live without;
Dreamverb, Pultec, Multiband comb and cambridge EQ.


different strokes I guess......

 

[imdrecordings]

and it goes a little something like this! Hit IT!

1176LN
LA2A
Neve 1081

Done. 8)

Back to work.

 

[Akis]

First of all, the best thing would be to try the free 14-day functional demos of all the plug-ins.

Now, my most used plugs are:

1176LN
LA-2A
Dimension D

IMO, the first 2 are the definite must haves for a UAD-1 setup.

 

[imdrecordings]

First of all, the best thing would be to try the free 14-day functional demos of all the plug-ins.

Oh Akis. Why must you be so sensible?

 

[Fairlight]

First of all, the best thing would be to try the free 14-day functional demos of all the plug-ins.

Oh Akis. Why must you be so sensible?

I might ask UA for another 14 day trial as my card is now in my studio, with decent monitoring and not on my home PC with desktop speakers which I trialed them on previously...

 

[joenovice]

14-day trial !?!.... BRILLIANT!

I can still appreciate suggestions from users though. I don't think I'd be able to get a true use-ablility factor in 14-days as my project load is low at the moment.

 

[Andrew 108]

I think it can depend on what type of music you make and what other equipment you have.
I make mostly electronic music and have a liquidmix already which I quite like.
But I find that for my music making I can't do without the Precision plug-ins and also the Roland plug-ins. I just love the Dimension D and the Precision limiter is great.
The Neve plug-ins are obviously superb but I just didn't use then as much during the 14 day trial and so didn't buy them. I can imagine that if you do a lot of acoustic or rock type music then they are important plug-ins.
The reverbs are o.k but I'm not really a big fan of reverbs anyway really. So for me actually the logic reverbs are good enough.
The bundle that comes with the card is great and fun too. I really like playing with the nigel plug-in and there is a pultec plugin that comes with the card too.
At the moment I'm very satisfied with the precision and roland bundles and prefer these over the neve although I only have one card. For my music I also get a lot of mileage from the liquid mix. So altogether I'm really happy.
I hope that UAD can come out with some more esoteric plugins like the roland plugins - that would be great.

 

[Matt Hepworth]

Don't try them all at once! Try all the compressors at once and buy what you like. Then go to the EQ's. Use the crap out of them for 14 days. If you do the demos on all, you won't be able to get a feel for any of them, really, because you'll probably be switching between all of them so often.

 

[Fairlight]

I make a fair amount of electronic / dance type of music (as well as pure acoustic music) and would certainly buy (at least) the Neve 1073 as it would add really nice analogue warmth to kick drums and basslines. I think this EQ works universally.