what are your fave eq and distortion vsts?
or any others you may have?
to be honest with EQs anything that does the job well enough. For general EQing i tend to just use the stock ones in ableton... its the same with logic, although I really like the Fat EQ it comes with. also dont forget sometimes a filter can be used to do the job, and you can never go far wrong with waves plugins
Distortions is a bigger issue, as there are so many out there and they all have different characteristics. Personally I like the Audio Damage Destrukto for extreme distortion, more general the saturator in live is pretty good, and the stock distortion in logic is really good. The Zap Filter gives some good filter/distortion effects. The ohmforce predatohm is another good one.
What I really recommend though is to try and get some outboard processing and get some analogue sound going. If you can lay your hands on some stuff like moog, mesaboogie, TLAudio i recommend just experiment and take as many samples as possible. you cant really beat that analogue sound for distortion. Same with EQing although one of the best ive heard in the digital realm are massenburg and the sony oxford, but to be fair i havent tested much else.
