[innerbooty]

I am demo'ing the Arouser now. The feature set is crazy. Is it just in my mind that it doesn't seem to have the "oomph", heft, of the UAD Distressor? As a longtime owner of two Distressors, I am super impressed with UAD's version. As for Empirical Labs, the Big Freq also sounds amazing, and super cool features. I was disappointed to see that they didn't do a DSP version for that one though...

As per above, I also have no interest in plugin subscriptions. Avid's got us by the b**ls, so no choice there. That being said, I did recently subscribe to Roland Cloud, which has a mind-blowing array of incredibly well done plugins and libraries, and emulations of all their classic synths and drum machines. That seems worth it me, in what I do.

Seems Plugin Alliance is having kind of a cool sale. I would welcome thoughts as to the most "go to" overall useful plugins in their arsenal. Might be a good time to buy a few