Why it's best: Waves is one of the top names in plug-ins overall, and its Mercury bundle is the company’s currently best offering. With a 91 processors and more than 200 component plug-ins, the Mercury bundle features time-domain effects, equalizers, dynamics control, noise reduction, guitar sound modeling and classic analog components. Offering mixdown tools as well as its processors, the Mercury bundle is guaranteed to give engineers plenty of options. See more reviews, photos, prices, and specs
Why it's a best pick: A step down from the Mercury bundle, the Diamond bundle includes the Q-Clone, Waves Tune LT, L3 Multimaximizer, and IR-L Convolution Reverb and many of the plug-ins found in Waves Platinum, Restoration, and Transform bundles. Overall 41 processors are included, like dynamics, equalization, and reverb, even spatial imaging, and more. WaveShell also supports all plug-in formats and audio editors, like TDM, DirectX,RTAS, VST, AudioSuite, MAS, and Audio Units. See more reviews, photos, prices, and specs
Why it's a best pick: For use with PowerCore systems, the Sonnox ELITE is a collection of digital signal processing plug-ins from the Sonnox Oxford series. It comes with all seven Oxford plug-ins, like the Oxford Transient Modulator, Oxford EQ, Oxford Dynamics, Oxford Inflator, Oxford Reverb, Oxford Limiter, and Oxford SuprEsser. With so many different tools, this suite is a must have for any serious engineers. See more reviews, photos, prices, and specs
Why it's a best pick: Eventide Anthology effects includes the entire Anthology bundle, plus six production tools. IT includes the EQ65 Filter Set, E-Channel, Ultra-Channel channel strip, EQ45, Parametric Equalizer, Precision Time Align, Quadravox 4-voice diatonic Harmonizer, pitch shifter, Instant Phaser, Instant Flanger Omnipressor dynamics processor, H910 Harmonizer effects processor, H949 pitch shifter, H3000 Band Delays and more. See more reviews, photos, prices, and specs
Why it's a best pick: The Waves SSL 4000 Collection was designed with a license from Solid State Logic. Its three modeled plug-ins are based on the legendary SSL 4000 Series. The SSL E-Channel, the SSL G-Master Buss Compressor, and the SSL G-Equalizer are all solid tools. Experts that work with SSL boards day in and day out can't tell the difference between the plug-ins and the real analog sound. See more reviews, photos, prices, and specs
Clearly again price seems to be what you choose the "best" list by.