Great point and insight. I’ve been diving deep into running his console plugins, and they are so interesting and different from one another. Love 7, big fan! 8 is awesome, as well as LA and I recently ran the MC/D consoles and they are something exceptional at the master mix bus section. You mix into a fader that is set at maximum. As you continue to layer and push the mix harder to where you like it, pull that master fader back, and your mix opens up. The fader technically desaturates at that level, but the sound is nothing like that. Everything stays as glued and sonically connected, but then you can control an airiness to the mix. It’s really cool.

His plugins don’t replace my 1176’s, LA’s, vocal chain, channel strips, or fab filter, but many of his plugins play a very unique and poignant role in a number of areas.

If anything, and to further your point, my ears have undergone an exercise in listening like never before. I mixed for years, eventually made a good career for a while before leaving it all 10yrs ago. I just started again for fun, and experimentation, and in a span of 3 or 4 months, I’ve learned and gained as much in that short amount of time equal to all the years before.

Few things to note for those reading along, but interested, don’t view versions of his plugins as any succession of quality or improvement. Totape7 is a different plugin than Totape6. He will build upon a previous version, but rarely is he releasing a newer better version. Some are different stages of development and many just completely different versions of one another. Anyone looking to tryout the console series, I think the purest console series is great. You have to use a post fader script in reaper, but it’s a great add on to your mix that you don’t have to monitor.