I use everything on everything.
It all depends on the track and the vibe I’m trying to create.
Lately I’ve been avoiding reverbs for some reason. I think reverbs is way to 90’s.
Most of nowadays pop/rock stuff mixes don’t really use much reverb. May be some slight ambiences and chambers or slap delays. But the days of long huge verbs and light and clean sound are so ****ing history.
Some of the trance stuff that I do on the side calls for a Plate or an occasional Hall, but more as a special effect on a particular sound as in oppose to everything like it used to be in the 80s and 90s. The film stuff still calls for bright Plates and all sort of ambient spaced out stuff, but even that is on it’s way out.

I always liked a good compressor/ limitor and some nice EQ work. Distortion Wah is also one of my favorites. When in doubt and need a noticeable sound use good old Distortion Wah with lots of nice and rhythmic dotted 8th delay and may be a chorus/flange/phaze to totally space it out.
Bass sound I always compress and EQ. ON occasion I’d use some slap back and a nice chorus and may be an enhancer for the slap basses.

Drums often call for some heavy limiting. For real drums instead of using fake room FX and corny slapbacks I prefer natural ambience. Processing drums is serious business.Especially nowadays, when almost everything uses a combination of a real drum track and some samples & Loops.

Live performance and vocals is a totally different ball game. I still prefer a good old Compressor/Limiter, Gate, EQ, slap delay/light chorus cmbination. Works like a charm.

Then there’s special FX. Well there are no boundries there.
Everything goes, everything’s cool. From Pan FX /Dopplers to stereo enhancements and god knows what else. I tend to use vintage tube spacializers. Just a habbit.

Hmmmm…what else?
FX is actually my favorite subject. I’m glad you brought it up guys.
Later!

-ED-