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I think we may need Lars back and some super sleuthing to find one of those, because I've never seen one from them either! ?

Completely agreed. They're worthy of the full price.. In saying that, I've only picked them up on sale though ?

Total no brainer at that price. Not for the feint hearted though.. that is one hell of a versatile and complex compressor. If I didn't already own it, I'd be snapping that one up.

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Can also use AAFIFTY for 50% off which even works on things like this and Head Crusher which is on sale also. For $3 each it's pretty laughable how cheap they are. Even just for the IRs alone in there it's probably worth it ?

I liked that feature too and they seem pretty good with their updates. It's not uncommon for me to receive a free update out of the blue and sometimes even new products for free based off things I've picked up previously.

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Will be interesting to find out how well it stacks up against some of the competition ?

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I'll wait until it drops under $20 but I'll probably have to give this a shot at some stage. I've been quite impressed with sole of their other plugins.

Apart from CPU (which might be better now), easy choice, Lisa for sure. Sounded better to me and way more versatile ?

I really like both of those. I didn't like the SHMC when I first tried it, but the original in mid side (with MSED from Voxengo) has really grown on me. Class A I like too. AMEK is such as swiss army knife, it's just so versatile for whatever you need. I'm sure Neold Warble is great, with XLN RC-20 alone I'm not sure you need it. RC-20 is brilliant and does from subtle to extreme with plenty of modulation. Which IK is the Soma? Only the 432 comes to mind, but that's Sontec. Lisa I actually really liked and that was hard to pass at $6.. but I don't have as much need for it and it was a CPU killer last time I tried it. Not sure if they've optimized it since, but it was Acustica Audio heavy for some reason. It quite surprised me.

Nice one Nick! I had planned on searching for it and adding it to the post when I had time, so thanks for taking care of that ?

Legend Fleer! Worked a treat ? I definitely weighed up a few of them for $6. I have almost everything I wanted from PA, so there were only a few to consider... but then I grabbed the NEOLD V76U73 and the Native Instruments Passive EQ (made by... Softube!). I'd had my eye on the Neold for a while and it can have a really nice tone to it. The NI Passive EQ is Manley Massive Passive emulation that I'd also thought I might grab at some stage. Super warm and great sounding tube EQ. The other option was their True Peak Limiter for $6 which is a pretty crazy price and was hard to say no to, but I'll get more use out of the other two and they worked out at about $15 each which isn't a bad sweet spot and I get to use them now ?

Tantra 2 and Thorn are both great options. Both capable of some really different sounds and I like using them. Knif is good. I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet, but I might at some stage. I do wonder how easily it would sit in the mix though. Some of the consoles aren't bad either for some really nice compression, good EQ curves and nice compression. They're definitely not needed and you can use separate plugins for them, but sometimes they save a lot of time and make it easy to nail the sound. But it's easy for people to start collecting them ? I've just cherry picked a few of the best (for my tastes)

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