Cool. On all points. I've got several thousand dollars worth of plug-ins. Sonnox Oxford Elite stuff, and Izotope Ozone (5, I think) are two of the big ones I use for mastering. What are your favorites? Doesn't have to be just for mastering, but for composition work too. Used to be that I listened to indie pop with instruments, but now I'm a sucker for solo projects and duos, almost always electronic-based. I've got a guitar and bass, but I gave away my drum set a few years when I moved into an apartment. Mic'ing drums is a nightmare anyway. Someday I'll get a set of e-drums and add a more human touch to my mechanical, driving crap that I feel limited to, for now. I'm not into sampling so much, myself, but I like to steal a lot of production techniques from French House.