I'm a half noob. I have been working for a year on getting my vocal sound down. Using all the basic plugins in Reaper and even T-racks plug ins at various times, I was never satisfied. Spent hours watching tutorials on various methods and tried most of them. I was getting close when I finally bought Nectar 2. In one evening with tweaking a preset I found my sound.

Now I have only worked on one particular song and vocal track but the point is the preset short circuited a year of learning. I will say this, the year of trial and error was well worth it because I now know why the preset worked. I was close to getting the sound but it lacked something and I couldn't dial it in. The Nectar 2 suite is a tool that takes some of the guess work out of the equation and gives you a base from which to build on.

I have no desire to become an audio engineer. I'm not even that worried about selling my music. I enjoy creating and Nectar 2 is a really nice tool that makes creating fun. There was a point I got burned out trying to get the right vocal sound. I quit creating for about 3 months and had no desire to even turn the computer on. Thank goodness that passed.

If you got the money buy it. You won't be disapointed, I wasn't.