What are your "go to" plugins?

Hi all, it's been a little while since we've had a thread like this so I thought I'd start one and see what everyone is using?

What are your go to plugins for:    ?

EQ
Dynamics
Limiter
Delay
Reverb
Distortion / FX
Synth
Drums/Percussion

Other

Right now for me, I'd say

EQ : UAD Massive Passive, Izotope Alloy, Sonitus EQ, Pro Channel EQ, IK Pultec
Dynamics : UAD 4K Bus comp, UAD Fatso, Pro Channel Comp, IK Fairchild 670
Limiter : Ozone 4
Delay : UAD EP-34, Sonitus Delay
Reverb: UAD EMT 250, UAD EMT 140, 2C -Aether
Distortion / FX : Guitar Rig 4, Izotope Spectron
Synth: Omnisphere, Rapture, Komplete 7 (the synths in there) 
Drums/Percussion: Addictive Drums, Battery 3
Other: Trilian, NI's The Finger,

How about you guys?

My Go To plugs list is smaller:

FX TYPE PLUGS: These end up in almost every project I write.
Ozone 4 .......................................     Isotope
Studioverb2...................................     Cakewalk
ParametricQ ..................................    Cakewalk
Sheppi spacial enhancer...............   (not sure w/o looking)
Melodyne Editor............................    Celemony  used and removed after the bounce.

SYNTH TYPE PLUGS:
Kontakt 4
EWQL
JAMSTIX running some BATTERY 3 kits

use these synths on occasion, but less often:
DIM/LE/GPO
Massive
Absynth
Reactor


That's actually about all I use on a regular basis. I have more but most collect digital dust.

I know what works and that is what I use and stick with.

Mine haven't changed that much - I love ProChannel and am starting to use that most of the time.  Otherwise:

EQ:  mostly PC for channel, nomad's stuff for thick, Voxengo's curve EQ for mastering, Sonitus for clean.

Comps:  a lot of PC, nomad's for la2A style, Elephant limiter for mastering, TC dsp

Reverb/delay:  nomads, Perfect space, studio verb for track

distortion/sat - analog

synths:  alchemy, Rapt/DimPro, Komplexer for about 90%.  Ironhead and Session Drummer for, you guessed it, drums.

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My list keeps getting shorter and shorter. It's pretty much down to these now:

Channel Tools (nearly every stereo track)
Ozone 3 and 4 (3 for the exciter only)
FabFilter Pro-Q (on everything)
Kjaerhus Classic Compressor (vocal leveling)
Sonitus Compressor (everything else)
Sonitus Multiband (mostly on vocals)
Sonitus Delay (leads)
Perfect Space (vocals only)
StudioVerb2 (everything else)
TT Dynamic Range Meter (last plugin on every project)
SPAN

These account for 98% of the plugins I use, not counting built-in effects in soft synths.

I have eliminated far more effects over the last 5 years than I have added. Better to know a few plugins really, really well than to randomly bounce around a huge collection hoping to find the right one with the right settings by accident.

Clean EQ:  Sonitus EQ
Coloured EQ:  UAD Pultec Pro
Limiter:  UAD 1176LN
Mix Limiter:  Voxengo Elephant
Delay:  UAD DM-1, Sonitus Delay
Reverb:  UAD DreamVerb, 2C Aether
Plate Reverb:  UAD EMT 140
Distortion/FX: IK AmpliTube2, UAD Nigel
Synth:  Rapture
Drums/Percussion:  NI Battery 3
Organ:  NI B4II, GSi VB3
Orchestral: IK Philharmonik
Piano:  Dim Pro
Elec Piano:  GSi MrRay or MrTramp
Other Instruments: Dim Pro, IK SampleTank
Meter:  Voxengo SPAN

waves ren comp
sonitus eq
waves delay
verb r-verb, perfect space
waves L2

As far as gotos are concerned these probably form the basis.  Although I have no shame in using whatever I fancy using to get the job done.  Sometimes you can spend hours trying to get the right sound for a particular job from a specific plug when trying an alternative can work like instant magic.  There is no substitute for knowing exactly what you have in your arsenal and a thorough knowledge of what they do.  Having said that my plug in count per project is probably very low.

Channel Strips: UAD 4K, CS1, Nasty VCS
EQ : Sonitus EQ, UAD A-Range, Stillwell 1973
Dynamics : (any one or two from) UAD 4K Bus comp, UAD Precision Bus Comp, Bootsy Density MkII, Stillwell Rocket, Ferric TDS, Sonitus Comp and Multiband.
Limiter : UAD 1176, UAD LA2A
Delay : Sonitus Delay, UAD DM-1
Reverb: Studioverb II, UAD EX-1
Distortion / FX : Camel Crusher
Other: UAD Little Labs IBP, and the Kjearhaus Classics, I love 'em.

Synths: Most synths and sounds for me can be engineered in Reason 4 which I use rewired into Sonar.

Drums/Percussion: Various Custom Samples using NN-XT's mapped to Reason's RDK format or Reason's Redrum modules.

I bounce around on other stuff, but my one "always" is Voxengo SPAN in the Master Bus.

About 80-90% of my use:

Kjaerhus Classic Series (esp. Delay and comp.)
Ozone4
Voxengo Span
Sonitus stuff included in SONAR (esp. EQ, comp. and multib. comp.)
Perfect Space

Kontakt4
Melodyne Plugin
Addictive Drums

Plus: Playing with the dozens of quite good FX and synths found on the Computer Music Magazine cover DVD. There are FX and synths with different approach and no crap. It's a very good learning set for an amateur. Some of the stuff is really good IMO.

Oh man, i found this thread in my studies and couldn't resist participating (resusitating) on a 'GO TO' thread... hear goze..

EQ               Voxengo Overtone GEQ (vocals, acoustic guitar) (free): Karma EQ for overall mix(free) : Posihfopit all around gem (free)

Dynamics     Stillwell ROCKET vocals, guitars, drums:  PSP mix pack2 for bass

Limiter         What's that?  (i hate being limited)

Delay           Classic (free), Echolive nice ping-pong retro (free)    

Reverb         Epicverb (free) vocals, drums: Anwida BGV and effects(free)

Distortion / FX   On guitar amps (I'm always looking for new) i use Free Amp 3 (free), Amplitude....(I tried the POD stuff and was not impressed.)  Am going to try going through a real amp as this is a sore spot; CamelCrusher vocals (free); PSP mixpack2 Saturation ; 

Synth      Sampletank piano, synths, sax...Best freebie ever: Stringtheory (free):...Cakewalk Instruments Center (with X1)

Drums/Percussion   Jamstix 2 (outstanding product with stellar support) 

Other   T-Racks for 'mastering' flourishing (eq, comp, limiting -rarely):  French, Italian or Spanish red (helps round out the sound and hides a lot of otherwise glaring mistakes.)

That was fun...thanks :)
 
 
edit: spelling