I have used many many plugins over the years and i personally think output thermal is probably the best effect plugin i have ever used. It just gives things such an unbelievably fatness and crunch, with some killer presets. I use it for literalyl everything (pretty much on every track - along with RC-20). I really recommend people get it!
Recommending Output thermal
Furthermore, I've just used a couple presets while doing some home mastering - really nice at giving a lovely tape crunch (and means you don't need to buy a single purpose saturator - if you haven't already got one.
Nice to hear @tamlinspeaks. I bought this a while ago and failed to get much out of it. Will keep trying...
I use it almost exclusively for drums - sorry should have made that clear!
Cool - just listening to your soundcloud. Love those crunchy drums. Do you use thermal on an overall drums bus, as well or just on individual parts?
thanks! appreciate it. I almost always use it on the bus/group so i get a uniform sound across the drums. also gives you a sort of 'sampled' sound for the drums, which i like a lot
