What plugin/technique/etc do you embarassingly (over)use?

[Mundius]

Now I just abuse the stretch function with samples... seriously.

[Nikki-Layne]

I almost forgot, using reverse crashes as transitions, heh, I suck

Oh my god, ALL I freakin use is the white noise from 3xosc. And at every drop I have ever made there is a short whit noise downlifter. (Although it does make your drops sound awesome) On occasion I use a riser sample. But I almost never use reverse crashes.

...I use both.

Pretty much every transition has either a reverse cymbal or a white noise sweep, both for drops.


I don't like this thread. It's making me think about how unoriginal I am.

[Habanc]

Umm... All of my synths are just tweaked presets because I'm pretty suckish at sound design. When I go into massive to attempt to make something original, I just cycle through oscillator waveforms and see what sticks.

That, and soundgoodizer on ALL THE KICKS. I'm not good enough at mixing to preserve their punchy-ness in the midst of everything else.

[VINXIS]

ENNERVATE PLS U NU BUMP OLDH THRDS, I BMP OLDH THRDS.


Anyways, always use C dorian/minor lol. And then I transpose it so it sounds fugly instead of ugly.
I also use too much dirty saw solos and cowbell LAWL

[colortwelve]

I use house plucks all the time, no matter what genre I'm making.

[Magnitude Zero]

TranceDrive, one sine/triangle oscillator, lots of portamento. Don't do this so much anymore, but I used to abuse the shit out of that.

Edirol Orchestral presets, turning the knobs very little if at all. Particularly the cello.

Piano with a lot of reverb.

Everything else with a lot of reverb.

[konsolN]

Reverb and everything strange

(gotta use that Sitar VST for an endian essemble MLP-Intro XD )

and I use lot's and lot's of Soundfonts and little to no Synth

[ChromaticChaosPony]

dBlue Glitch.

But I actually learned how to use it properly. So it's not a problem anymore.

[CDPP]

I almost forgot, using reverse crashes as transitions, heh, I suck

[K3WRO]

dBlue Glitch.

But I actually learned how to use it properly. So it's not a problem anymore.

I use gross beat, the 100$ version of Glitch

[TheCreepyPie]

3x Osc.
IT IS A GODLY VST
IT MAKES EVERYTHING ASDF

[ph00tbag]

I use Synth1 and 3xOsc in all my tracks almost exclusively.

I also have a go-to snare drum and a go-to hi hat that I probably overuse.

[the4thImpulse]

Sometimes I will use multiple reverbs of diffrent sorts on track elements, like four reverbs on sperate send tracks all automated and sperately EQ'd to create lovely drone sounds that fill your ears with awesomeness.

[Captain Ironhelm]

Low-pass filter. I just like it a lot. Actually, pretty much filters in general.

[ChromaticChaosPony]

I just got Ohmicide today. Yay!!!

I wonder how Ohmicide sounds on snares and kicks. And piano....

What the hell does Ohmicide do anyways? I slapped it on a reese bass and it sounded gritty and epic. Distortion? Or something else?

[Flutter Rex]

What the hell does Ohmicide do anyways? I slapped it on a reese bass and it sounded gritty and epic. Distortion? Or something else?

Yes, it's a complex multiband distortion device. And it could sound really amazing on piano and drums.

Back to the Topic III:

I've got few samples I tend to add on every track, these are simply too good! And in every new song I gather all channels in my mixer into four groups (drums, synths, vox and FX), just to automate effectors on whole type at once.

Also vovel filter... oh my yes.

[Beetie Swelle]

Whenever I'm noodling around on my keyboard looking for a good chord progression, E minor will somehow get in there. Every. Single. Time.

Leave me alone E minor D:

[soultensionbenjamin]

Soundgoodizer

[colortwelve]

Soundgoodizer

You clearly have a problem

[Legion]

Massive with the default saw waves. SAW WAVES EVERYWHERE.

[K3WRO]

I also should of listed that I use piano for almost every song, and, the same lead XD

[ChromaticChaosPony]

I got Sugarbytes Wow Filter. Time to do absolutely nothing but wubs.

[Flutter Rex]

Soundgoodizer

You clearly have a problem

Oh noes! And I'm totally overusing YOU WA SHOCK (like 10-20 in one project), please young doctor, please go to my YT channel and see if I got a problem too. :v

[Freewave]

Soundgoodizer is like steroids. Few like to admit they use it but a LOTTA people do.

[K3WRO]

Soundgoodizer is like steroids. Few like to admit they use it but a LOTTA people do.

It's because It makes songs sound good even without mastering skillz
but the song in my sig was the first song to not feature Soundgoodizer,

It uses Maximus instead