Who makes your favorite Analog Emulations?

[dionenoid]

not relevant to the point, but am i the only person who now wants to hear, 250 overdrives, in series, on a guitar riff?

No, i wanna hear it too.

[jamcat]

Not me. Distortion stages have steep diminishing returns. After a couple, adding more just adds static.

[Arrested Developer]

Is it ok to post names instead of brands?

Reimund Dratwa is responsible for some of my favourite emulations (PiA, Blackrooster Audio, NEOLD, Fuse Audio)

I'm sure he's a talented dev, but probably putting plug ins names for the ones you think are notable emulations is more useful.

Right now, I find plenty of use for some of the Fuse Audio Preamps, mainly the VPRE-2C, VPRE-376 and the VPRE-562-A on different sources.
I would also mention the NEOLD Big-Al.

[Fleer]

For effects, Slate Digital.
For synths, Arturia. They really hit a home run with their V Collection 8 and 9.

[jens]

not relevant to the point, but am i the only person who now wants to hear, 250 overdrives, in series, on a guitar riff?

Actually it's an amp-sim (incl. cab IRs and all) and it was ~250x the same track...

reading your post I wanted to put them one after the other on the same track just for the fun of it, but didn't not yet come around doing it...

[zoot_rollo]

Great thread!

I am mainly interested in plugins I can use for real-time tracking of bass and guitar.

I have a few sims and IR collections (ok, a lot); adding processing post-sim takes feel and tone to a new level.

I love my ZL Acustica Acquas for bass and guitar recording.

A few surprise old-time goodies like Waves LA3A and J37 - adds great "GRRR" without getting into overdrive territory.

My boot m.2 crashed on me, so I had to reload most of the VSTs.

Blessing in disguise: revisiting/reinstalling many unused plugins has yielded some great sounds. fresh ears.

Voxformer, Nomad Factory, Analog Obsession, Sonimus, PSP...

[Leo1999]

Waves Kramer plugins and Waves J37.
VSTis maybe in future will be ok
a lot to improve as to user friendliness, response, playability, dynamics, gb size,
often loading times of plugin and presets
and sometimes cpu usage,
so still I prefer Yamaha Motif and Nord lead