uLaw is my favorite, but its hard to pick one.
The reason why I pick uLaw is because there is no 1 right way to use it, it can get the most nasty sounds I've ever heard, and about 1 out of 1,000 specific parameter settings & variability will be a golden needle within the haystack. Plugins behave differently, and their behavior will change based on what other effects are within the uLaw's, and in what series of order, etc. I swear, there are some plugins that I've used 1,000 times, inside uLaw's... and then on the 1,001th try, some how something unexpected and awesome comes from its behavior, in combo with other things. Its very strange, so its like my twin brother.
I'm building 2 albums with it. One is based on dither noise (and dither types of things' noise) in uLaw, and shaped in ways to create drum/synth sounds, then organizing the stuff into patterns, etc.
I do live streaming, with experiments for it... and its building up.
On gearslutz, we've talked about various methods.
Decode before encode & encode before decode & switching back and forth.
Using 2 or more uLaw's within each other.
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