Fab-Filter 10-year anniversary sale 40% off

10-year anniversary sale- 40%

Ten years ago we launched our first product FabFilter One, which today is part of an incredible line of plugins ranging from Saturn to Pro-Q and Pro-MB. To celebrate with all our customers, we are running a one-time 10-year anniversary sale offering 40% discount on everything! The sale runs for 10 days only, until April 24.
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If you already own one or more FabFilter plug-ins, the Personal Upgrade Offer in your FabFilter account offers you discounts of 40% or more on any additional plug-ins during the 10-year anniversary sale.
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In addition, FabFilter will make a charitable donation to Stichting MEMO, a local organization bringing children in their early years in contact with young professional musicians and their passion for making music.

It's a good time to consider them since they don'y offer sales that often & the prices in general are a bit high.

:(  I wish I was not so broke right now

Without having any specific need........if there was "one" FF plugin that's a must (one that would used in every project), which one would you recommend?

Maybe I should sell a kidney or two lol

Mesh
Without having any specific need........if there was "one" FF plugin that's a must (one that would used in every project), which one would you recommend?

They're all good. What do you need?
Try the demos, the sale lasts until April 24.

Thanks Carl, snagging Timeless for sure, probably another but undecided. 'bout time they have a sale.

bitflipper
If I had to give them all up but one, Pro-C is the one I'd keep.

Bitflipper, what is it about Pro-C?  I demoed it a while ago and liked it, but I don't recall anything about it that made it so much more compelling than the dozens of other choices out there.  Is it still better than say TB_Compressor or Melda Dynamics?  Or even Klanghelm DC8C2?
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

This is an incredible deal--thanks for posting it! Just picked up the EQ (which I'm especially excited about), compressor, and gate (also Saturn, just for fun). Can't wait to use them in my mixes!

Eddie TX
Bitflipper, what is it about Pro-C?  I demoed it a while ago and liked it, but I don't recall anything about it that made it so much more compelling than the dozens of other choices out there.  Is it still better than say TB_Compressor or Melda Dynamics?  Or even Klanghelm DC8C2?

For most people it's the cool visuals, but for me it's the versatility. I use it for ducking, de-essing, bus compression, track-smashing and parallel compression. The only role it won't do is replace a FET-style ultra-fast clipper/distortion plugin. In fact it's hard to distort anything with it, so there's that limitation.
 
The versatility is mainly in the sidechain controls. Not only can you filter the sidechain (which nowadays is a much more common feature than it was when Pro-C was introduced), you can also route the sidechain input internally between Left and Right or Mid and Side.
 
For example, you can compress the Mid and Sides differently as a widening technique. Or send the Side sidechain signal to the Mid compressor (or vice versa). Panning controls on the sidechain mean you can have the two compressors fully linked, fully unlinked, or anything in between. 
 
You also have three algorithms called Clean, Classic and Opto. Clean is a clinical and, well, clean feed-forward design. Classic is conventional feedback compression. Opto is just what it sounds like: an LA-2A style soft knee.
 
Pro-C is also very CPU-efficient, more so than any other compressor I have, which makes it a logical choice for track compression. 
 
Pro-C is, however, overdue for an update - which FF have been promising. And which current Pro-C owners will probably not have to pay for. It lacks an oversampling option, not a big deal to me but seems to be for the cider-press crowd. That same crowd complains about the conservative minimum attack time of 0.5 ms, which again is not a concern to me. The only enhancement I'd like to see is a sizeable UI, which is where Meldaproduction leads the pack.
 
DC8C is certainly worth consideration, especially given the huge price difference. It's not only similarly flexible, it also adds distortion, instant attack times and multiple attack/release curves. It would appear to be a worthy alternative to Pro-C, although I've never used it myself (no demo).

I use Saturn a lot, although I have to say in all honesty that I have amp sims that do a better job as amp sims and other saturators that do as well as Saturn. The benefit is having all those variations in one plugin, and the ability to apply different algorithms to different frequency bands.
 
Of lesser importance, though still a significant differentiator, are the modulation options. For example, I like to apply heavy distortion to just the first few milliseconds of a bass guitar. I know of no other distortion plugin that'll let me do that.

Mine comes with quite a bunch of presets, not sure what's up with that.
It's certainly worth diving into (I need to do more too).

Also, I have DC8C and find I don't really get along with it. Could be my crappy technique though, it certainly is versatile. The VU meters never seem to indicate what I expect them to, and I find it hard to get it to do what I'm looking for.

Yup...Timeless has a bunch of presets. Check the download.

Sanderxpander
Mine comes with quite a bunch of presets, not sure what's up with that.
It's certainly worth diving into (I need to do more too).

Also, I have DC8C and find I don't really get along with it. Could be my crappy technique though, it certainly is versatile. The VU meters never seem to indicate what I expect them to, and I find it hard to get it to do what I'm looking for.

I love DC8C, but to be honest Pro-C taught me how to use a compressor. Try calibrating the VU meters to -14 or just read up a bit on what VU meters are for. You can also ignore all but the gain reduction meter.

The great thing about two-knob compressors is you drop 'em in and they just do their thing. The downside is they just do that thing and nothing else. Which is fine if that's the thing you need.
 
Classic compressors such as the 1176 and LA-2A are actually quite primitive devices. We love the sound of them due to habituation: they've been used on gazillions of recordings, so their effect seems "natural" to us. But in the digital world there is no reason to be limited by what can be conveniently implemented with tubes, transistors and op-amps. No reason a compressor can't be used for creative, remedial or surgical purposes. That's why I prefer a deep, do-everything processor, even if it comes with a learning curve.