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For the price of Metric Halo's Channel Strip plugin (which I believe is Mac only), you can get the Waves Renaissance Maxx Bundle with not only the Renaissance Channel plugin but several other useful Renaissance plugins (compressor, Eq, Vox, etc)

I use Ren Channel all over my mixes.

McDSP's Channel G is really good too, but unfortunately still TDM only.

Hope this helps.