


The newer 88rs is more neutral in sound but similar quality.

The Cytomic is also good, but has a little less character than the UAD. I found these much more accurate at capturing the dry SSL sound than the Brainworx versions and more dimensional than SSL Duende, which is rather old at this point. The newer versions of SSL strip and Bus are ridiculously good emulations (I know the hardware well), but use a lot of DSP. The Eventide H910 is one of the best and vibiest delay plugins, but also available native. The Pure Plate is a stripped down version of EMT 140. There are EMT style plate alternatives from Soundtoys, Waves, Valhalla, but the BX20 you will not find anywhere else. RMX16 if you like the ambience program sounds. Prob the 480L (although the Relab one was first and equally good) since you get so many algorithms that sound great with synths and percussion, highlights being halls and rooms. I’m thinking of getting the brainworx V3 as one of the plugins for surgical EQ/Mastering but trying to decide if it’s worth getting some channel strips/pre amps or other speciality stuff for the other two plugins. I do use electric guitar and voice occasionally, but really everything else is a small eurorack set up, ableton synths/omnisphere and lots of samples and field recordings. I’ve got a 3 bundle plugin pack where I can choose any three plugins over the next couple of weeks so just demoing things and wondered if you guys on here had any tips? A lot of the sites I’ve looked at mainly talk about tracking live instrumentation. I’ve just upgraded my audio interface to a UA Apollo Twin Quad to use with Ableton/Eurorack.
