Stillwell Audio

[Rick Cornish]

Has anyone bought any of the plug-ins from Stillwell Audio?
http://www.stillwellaudio.com

I stumbled across their site the other day. Some interesting-looking stuff, beautifully designed UI and reasonably priced. Wonder if they sound as good as they look.

[mikehalloran]

I own a couple. Unless things have changed, you can try them for free before you buy.

[BKK-OZ]

Yes, AFAIK, demos are available.
Stillwell are AOK in my book.

I am a big fan of The Rocket.

In fact, when they finally got around to making it 64 bit, I paid for it again, even though they offered it as a free upgrade. I tried a couple of their other plugs but never bought anything. The Rocket is the bomb though, I use it on kicks, or anything else percussive before I try any other compressor and I rarely even tweak it - I just grab one of the presets and go.

Although it took them awhile to go from 32 to 64 bits, in every other way I have always found them to be responsive and helpful. For example, when using 32 Lives as a bridge, I had a problem with presets not saving properly. I contacted Stillwell, and Scott offered to write a special script just for me to solve the problem. I told him to just work on the 64 bit thing and I would be a happy user.

And I am.

[Rick Cornish]

Thanks, BK—great info. I am definitely going to give Rocket a try. That's the one I was most interested in, so it's great to hear you find it useful in your music.

As Mike mentioned, they do offer fully-functional demos (very generous). I generally shy away from putting stuff on my system just to try out—especially if it's from a developer I've never heard of—but since at least a couple folks here have their products, I'm going to give them a try.

Thanks again!

[EMRR]

I use Major Tom the most.

[mikehalloran]

Stillwell has been around since 2006. The Schwa plugins used to be listed separately.

I've not been to the site in a long time. There are a couple I'm looking at including Spectro but won't make a decision until I see what DP9 has to offer.

[philbrown]

CMX Microshifter - does the micro-pitched short-delay stereo-spread thing very well.
Verbiage - good for tight ambience/thickening
Major Tom - DBX type comp, takes some tweaking but it's cool and different than other comps
The Rocket - 1176-ish, but more than that and it's FAST (or it can be)
Vibe EQ - nice character EQ
Bombardier Buss Comp - cool but kind of over my head feature-wise

Stillwell is exactly the kind of plug developer I like to support.
His demos are free with no strings attached, but if you like it, BUY IT.

[mikehalloran]

CMX Microshifter - does the micro-pitched short-delay stereo-spread thing very well.
Verbiage - good for tight ambience/thickening
Major Tom - DBX type comp, takes some tweaking but it's cool and different than other comps
The Rocket - 1176-ish, but more than that and it's FAST (or it can be)
Vibe EQ - nice character EQ
Bombardier Buss Comp - cool but kind of over my head feature-wise

Stillwell is exactly the kind of plug developer I like to support.
His demos are free with no strings attached, but if you like it, BUY IT.

I really like CMX. Very useful when you want instant doubling and don't want to twiddle with it.

Agreed on the paying for what you use.

[bongo_x]

Major Tom is maybe the only plugin I’ve used that does the DBX thing convincingly. If you like that, and I do, it’s definitely worth it.

Bombardier is nice too.

[bolla]

Major Tom is great and it feels good when you get the welcome screen that says "Thank You for buying etc"
Cheers, AB

[Rick Cornish]

Thanks Mike, bongo and boll for sharing you experience. Major Tom is going on my list.

[corbo-billy]

And don't forget the OLGA synthetizer: a vityual condensed Oscar and Polyvoks !

[monkey man]

Uh oh... time for me to run a mile....

Shoosh, they're talking about Svetlana's friend Olga. Could mean Svetta's back in town, so, er, I'll leave you to her!