Here's a cool plugin that I use sometimes to bring the sizzle in the cymbal samples. In small doses it could be useful on the master bus as well (in combo with other more transparent compressor). This is an oldie plugin, so it can perhaps be found free on the web. You might want to check other products from this company too, they are interesting



ThrillMe is a stereo mastering processor and is divided in to 3 parts.

Spectral enhancer:

4 bands (Bipole shelving IIR filter - (1 x Low-shelf + 2 x Peaking + 1 x Hi-shelf) x 2 (stereo).
Serial Routing.
Auto Adjustment.

Dynamics processor:

3 bands.
Splitting filter: Single-pole IIR/-6dB oct x 2 (stereo) x 3 (bands).
Band range: 0-1kHz/1kHz-10kHz/10kHz-Inf (with -6dB/oct crossover roll off).
Algorithm: VADP - Virtual Analog Dynamics Processing.
Envelope: Attack / Release (Self adjusted).
Ratio: from 1:1 to 1:128.
Threshold range: -inf dB. to 0.0dB, exponential curve.

Limiter:

Type: Mathematical waveshaping.

Looks interesting, even if it's free, it's worth experimenting, thanks Ivan!

A link would handy, but thanks for the tip Also, Mac/PC both?

Here's a link for this plugin, I think it's for windows only, but not sure

haha I remember using this one a lot during the mix of Cirse's first album. I never understood well how it worked but I could get cool things with it. I used it for guitars and vocals too in some songs...

Yeah, the knobs aren't marked, and it can get pretty sucky, but it's a nice one to keep in handy for some things.