are the waves plugins all there cracked up to be? What about the oxford plugins? I'm moving back to the pc platform so i will have to try some of these you guys have mentioned.

also- DB- read your techno tutorial on the way home on the bus, you give the basics so very simply. Sometimes you need to be told the obvious. Loved the diagram also, really makes you think about puting elements in there proper place to fill the spectrum. Would you recomend using a plugin to see what frequencies different sounds are hitting? Can you recomend one?