

I’ve also built some samples over time and love using drums from 1975, Dave Grohl / Foo Fighters, Drew Holcumb, Muse, and a few custom made combinations. Samples (Trigger 2): Usually only to support the existing tracks… Anything That Sound, mostly the Paul Mabury, Darrin King, Organic, Ben Phillips, and Dustin Burnett packs.Effects:Altiverb, Valhalla Vintage Verb, Eventide SP2016, Echoboy.When you need it, it’s the only thing: Kush Novatron, Butch Vig Vocals, Xfer OTT, UAD Little Labs VOG, Valhalla Shimmer, Brauer Motion, and many from the Secret Sauce list.Wild Card: Goodhertz Wow Control & Trem Control, Supercharger GT, Tremolator, Decapitator, DevilLoc, Little Alterboy, UAD Galaxy Echo.Multitool: Fab-Filter Pro-Q3, ProNeutron 2 & Ozone 8, Scheps OmniChannel.Secret Sauce (saturation or good flavor): Fab-Filter Saturn, UAD Oxford Inflator, Crane Song Phoenix II, Kush Clariphonic MKII, Black Box HG-2, Slate VMR Revival & Air, Zynaptiq Intensity, Gullfoss, Kazrog True Iron, UAD ATR-102.2Buss: UAD 2500, Manley Masive Passive, Slate VBC, Ozone 8, Cytomic The Glue, Saturn, McDSP M4000.Cut Harshness: Soothe, Trackspacer, Fab-Filter Pro-DS, Waves RDesser, Eiosis E2, Lo-Fi.Musical Compression: Fab-Filter Pro-MB, UAD Fairchild, Scheps Parallel Particles, Slate VBC, Slate VMR Red, Fab-Filter Pro-Q3 (dynamic).

Surgical Compression: Fab-Filter Pro-C2, UAD Distressor EL8, SPL Transient Designer, Cytomic The Glue.Musical EQ: UAD Neve 1073, UAD Helios, UAD Maag, UAD Pultec, Slate SSL.Surgical EQ: Without hesitation, Fab-Filter Pro-Q3 (formerly used the Pro-Q2 a ton).Of course, the nature of the track determines what I use, but these are my preferred tools. In true “Pensado’s Place” style, below, I have compiled a list of my most used plugins for certain situations. I am probably listing them by how frequently I use these. Here are some of my favorite tools in the plugin world for mixing music.
