I’m reversing course on these phase plugs

And ducking plugs. Slapped them all over a mix and it came out pretty great. The next mix, for whatever reason, I found the Fuser ducking just too noticeable. Especially if you have it on several tracks - I felt like I could hear the dynamics pumping. Or like gates closing too soon. I notice with Pi too, you just have to live with a warble.

This was a weird freaking session all around too. Neither Auto align 1 or 2 worked properly in the session. At least the results seemed worse and were inconsistent. I can’t figure out why it works sometimes and not others.

Does anyone else get paranoid or superstitious (for lack of a better term) when you all of a sudden hear some issue you haven’t heard in the mix before and then you realize it was X plug…then you’re too paranoid to use it again? Lol well, I do…That happened with Deres. I found a big resonance in guitars and it sounded great after I used Deres in solo…but it did something freaky when listening to the entire mix.
I do think vocal shaper is killer for taking the low resonances out of vocals, but I’ve overused that too.
Oh - and after applying liberal amounts of stereo widening with my new ssl fusion and Fuse plugs…I overused that stuff too.