A quick drop for the post-holidays to keep you busy! Check out these great plugins with excellent features to add spice and sonic inspiration to your productions, and tools to balance those mixes.

///1 Aegean Music Pitchproof (pitch shifter/harmonizer)

Aegean Music brings us Pitchproof, a guitar pedal style Harmonizer that can add harmonies and pitch changes to instruments and vocals alike.

Designed to combine old-school style pitch shifting with modern plugin technology, Pitchproof is ideal for mono signals - 303 anyone? - providing fully shifted output, select pitches, along with more natural detune effects as needed.

Bonus: "There's a guitar tuner onboard? Excellent."

Get the plugin here: https://aegeanmusic.com/pitchproof-specs

///2 Variety of Sound Thrillseeker XTC (exciter)

Designed for deep inclusion into the mixing and mastering process, Thrillseeker XTC is a psychoacoustic audio exciter that takes our hearing into account regarding our perception of audio; it provides a perfectly subtle effect, that sits effectively and accurately in the mix.

Including several bandpass sections each with its own control, as well as a shelving style EQ, Thrillseeker XTC includes a unique EQ design and transient-based processing to manifest energy deep into the aesthetic of your sound.

Get the plugin here: https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/thrillseekerxtc-mkii-released/ dreamlink 

///3 TDR Nova (equalizer)

Nova brings exceptional mixing and mastering versatility in a familiar layout and drag-and-drop display.

Also included is a multi-band EQ complete with a robust dynamics section that gives you the processing freedom to cover a very wide array of applications.

Adding fullness to the mix?

Tightening the rhythm section?

Perfecting vocals?

You will not be at a loss for solutions to all of your mixing and mastering puzzles.

Get the plugin here: https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-nova/

///4 Tritik Krush (bit crusher)

With it's crushing and algorithms, prepare to enjoy Krush's sweet combination of sharp digital shred with the welcome touch of an analog-modelled drive stage with resonant filters, along with a modulation section that allows you to manipulate any parameter to craft the effect.

A little wild, to the most weird, with analog modelled filters, generous modulation options, and a clean intuitive interface - this plugin has incredible range.

Krush your sound.

Get the plugin here: https://www.tritik.com/product/krush/ 

///5 Hvoya Audio Ribs (granulizer)

This amazing granular synth and FX engine lets you demolish and filter sound in a wild variety of ways.

Whether used as an fx module or a synth instrument, the 32 audio buffers can be stored separately or midi triggered; each with their own envelope and filter.

With multiple modes for various types of performance, any kind of audio can be transformed anywhere from shredding leads, to surreal otherworldly explorations.

Get the plugin here: https://hvoyaaudio.itch.io/ribs