To be fair, some of the these are more varied than you might think.The tool analogy sucks, I've never needed 18 PHZ-2 drivers with different shaped and coloured handles, or 7 angle grinders from different brands or 59pcs of 13mm ratchet wrenches. Which is what large plugin collections essentially are, dozens of minutely different variants for the same purpose when a couple would suffice.
I have multiple distortion and saturation plug ins and they all have a different tone.
Same goes for delays and reverb, I have quite a few but the pretty much all have different flavours.
Of course there is some overlap and of course that many flavours are probably not needed...
Statistics: Posted by _leras — Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:39 am