Tools that are actually making life better

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Soundflow with a Stream Deck!

i should have mentioned SoundFlow. I love it with Audiosuite.

Line6 Helix + Helix Native plug-in. These have cured all guitar-related GAS for me, they sound great and make guitar tracking very simple. Also very quick to reamp the DI signal.

Izotope RX. As a live guy, I’m often mixing the multitracks from an event, it’s indispensable for cleaning things up.

Metric A/B. Should come standard in every DAW

Dynamic EQ (Fabfilter and TDR Nova GE).

The IPhone! Always having a FFT and all the other AudioTools at hands, being able to work on a Quick speaker design anywhere, a camera, a PDF reader, a CAD reader, a voice recorder. A flashlight, a notepad, a Music player. The internet, all my manuals at hand. What did we do to get by in the old days?

Inline with the title of the thread, the 52" SawStop table saw. Gateway to so many great projects including this new back wall which is doing some pretty mind-blowing things in my room.

If we are going in this direction I’ll throw in my Milwaukee m18 track saw. I should have purchased a track saw years ago and I’m kicking myself for not doing so after seeing how easy it’s made my life with certain projects.

Reverberate 3 with some added IRs is even more useful than I thought it would be, and I already liked the concept from the original Reverberate.  If you have your go-to banks and presets you can try something, and if it doesn’t work you just try something else.  If it’s close but the tail is a bit too long, there’s the optimized decay control, which is especially useful for the Bricasti captures. If it’s too static, there’s a wide range on the modulation control.  

Having a largely tweak-free reverb with a bit of wiggle room has been a good experience (knowing that the deep editing capabilities are there too).  I’ve really been digging it for drum rooms.

Awe man, in general I get the convenience of battery powered tools, but when you need to do real work the power weight an balance of corded just kicks ass. I remember drilling through 98 year old Cypress beams to re wire in Galveston, even a 24volt drill with a fresh charge took 3 times as long as a corded Dewalt.

Ward - yes, please send me one or two. In return, I'll see if I can dig out a MXL 990 out of the trash and send that to you as a token of my appreciation.



I did a lot of research.  I'm not a logger.  I'm a composer producer.  The new generation DeWalt 16" battery chain saw will cut for as long as I want to.  And I have a spare battery to boot.  Out on the jeep trails, battery t*umps a gas powered saw by huge margins.  No oil spilled.  No waiting for saw to start.  No pulling, pulling, pulling.  Just grab it and down comes the trail blockage.  You guys need to get with it on the new gen saws.  

If I had to cut a BUNCH of trees for a living I'd get a Stihl MS500i. 

That is correct, sir. Diffuser's on a wall that's about 10" deep.

A plugin version is in the works! It effectively decompiles any solder plugin. RTAS only.

That is a great tool. I picked up a Weller 1010 recently to replace my older eBay Hakko. Great area to invest in if you're making your own cables and such.