: What are your favourite or most-used plugins?
AN: “90% of my time I use only FabFilter Pro-Q and Waves’ SSL compressor. I don’t need emulations of equalisers when I have Pro-Q. I’ve tried many other EQs and compressors, but I always come back to these two. Both can solve any task and they don’t ruin the sound. Plus, the SSL works really well on any bus (which is logical, because it is a bus compressor). For reverb, I can’t think of any other plugin than Valhalla’s Vintage Verb. It’s not expensive and really nice. You can do anything with it from a small metal barrel to infinitely large spaces. Also I like Span from Voxengo, which usually just hangs on my second monitor and lets me know if something goes wrong with the reference frequencies. It’s particularly helpful in the composing stage, letting me easily divide instrument lines by frequencies. I should also mention s(M)exoscope by Smartelectronix. As far as I remember, it’s free, but it was a great help to me when I was making the final mastering of the whole Unbound: Worlds Apart album. I wouldn’t say that I rely on analysers like this that often, but for some details it’s irreplaceable.”