I get plenty of mails from people asking me which are my favorite plugins, so I cooked up a small list of effects and a small list of my “can’t live without” stuff.
To start with the effects / dynamic plugins  :

1) Renaissance Eq-6 : I have it almost everywhere, I love its color and its very light on cpu, pain that I have to carry my ilok  everywhere but is the price to pay (plus the price of the actual bundle)

2) Renaissance Comp : Another tool from the waves renaissance max that I uber-use , I love its character and and the way you can achieve an awesome sounding compression with just a few tweaks, I use this for almost every main sound in my track, however not a fan of it when it comes to mastering .

3) Sonalksis TBK1 : Simply the fucking best filter out there, 1 big knob and 3 other settings, no additional crap added, and one of the few filters that goes on auto-bypass when fully opened.

4) Logic Dub Delay : Priceless for 2 reasons, it’s awesome, and it comes with logic so you don’t even need to buy it.

5) Cytomic The Glue : WTF how did they fit an SSL inside my mac? Oh no its a plugin…The best comp for buss compression, mastering and whatevercomporession!

6) Flux Epure II : Another ridiculously good sounding EQ, actually, with high chances the best sounding soft eq ever, clean and crisp, I love it for mastering, but for mixing I still prefer R-Eq.

7) TC-Electronic M30 : At TC one day they all took a huge amount of drugs and got drunk at the same time and decided to give this reverb plugin for free, glad they did that cause this thing is amazing!

This was the effects/dynamic top 7 now, for the synth we have …

1) Sylenth1 : So far the best and more versatile virtual instrument ever coded, from basses to leads to pads to alltheother7skiesshit if its not from my Jp or my virus it’s surely from this one.

2) ES2 : Another priceless plugin for the same 2 reasons of the previous mentioned “Dub Dealy”, comes with logic and it sounds so effing GREAT, there are no 7 Skies productions were I didn’t use at least 10 instances of this baby

3) Fxpansion DCAM : in particular Strobe, that has become my default “bass machine”, these synths do not simulate analog sounding, they ARE analog!

4) Massive : I bought this one only a few months ago (even thought I knew it from ages) it has quickly become one of my fav synth, I especially like the matrix concept, the sonic power of this monster is…Massive.

5) EXS-24 : Another Logic default, another plugin that has usually from 25 to 40 instances opened in my projects, simple, light, amazing.

6) MS-20 : Part of the Korg Legacy Collection Analog Edition, I swear to god I can’t tell the difference from the original, and so can’t many others, oh well, you don’t have that annoying constant buzz going on for freaking ever, but is that so bad?

7) Minimonsta : Now, that IS fat !

Soooooo, that’s it, hope you enjoyed this reading and hopefully discovered some new stuff to have fun with.
See you at the next geeky post

David | 7 Skies