EFFECTS in Cubase SX3

[Khazul]

I find roomworks and the magneto useful sometimes. The rest are poor substitutes TBH. The 'mastering' tools are truly crap IMHO for the task - useful for single inserts at best and I dont really like any of the compressors. For comparison, I think the mclass stuff in Reason v3 is way way better - shame they aint made available as a plugin suite.

They are all useable - but expect them to steal character rather than add. TBH - I think they are far worse then even the cheapet and nastiest hardware I have used - I mena go buy a loads of cheap behringer stuff second hand and the result will be way better.

I recently added a UAD-1 ultra-pak and 'precision multi-band compressor - very pleased with the results so far, though I havnt polished a track with them yet.

A number of people here swear by the TC powercore plugins as well - Ive not used them, by they are definately on my 'for consideration' list.

Sony Oxford mastering suits apparently has a very good rep as well.

For general stuff - theres loads of really useful characterful plugins in the ultra-pak.

I guess as with anything - yr pays for what yr gets - I do think that steinberg were a bunch of lame ass cheap skates when it came to the plug-ins they bundled with SX3. You get more useful plugins with tracktion v1 ffs. That and a whole bunch of other things have made me very cynical about steinberg...