What do you use for phase correction? Multitracks with issues needed

I did a couple of times run into phase issues in my mixes, and the special offer ($70 instead of $100) mail about MAAT RSPhaseShifter interested me a bit, especially since I also recently saw videos about Neutron 5 and its new Phase module, I wanted to gather info on what alternatives are also there.

I currently own FUSER, which has phase rotation option and different modes of phase auto-correction in side-chain. But FUSER is kinda a heavy-weight plugin. I am also 99% sure that I'll upgrade to Everything Bundle of iZotope again in January (did so 2 years ago) with a PayPal payment plan, so I'll own Neutron 5 soon enough.

What I'd love is to get my hands on some Multitracks with different kinds of phase issues (not just allignment, Cubase can take care of that just fine, I believe). The way I see it, what can be done with RSPhaseShifter, could also be done with putting either Neutron 5 Phase or maybe also FUSER on different bands of Waves StudioRack, also stuff like mid-side splitting could be done there. As for side-chains in StudioRack, I will have to look on it specifically as well, didn't yet try that.

I produce almost exclusively with samples and VSTs, having only really rarely recorded my voice and some SFX with a mono mic before, but I also want to learn to be able to mix and master recorded stuff with different issues and learn what kinds of problems can be fixed with some tinkering and what kinds are "fatal".

I already got trial versions of Neutron 5 and RSPhaseShifter installed and only have a week left on Neutron. I tinkered around on a track I lately was working on again ("the possessor") the day before yesterday , as at least one of sub-tracks was problematic, but i think that its problem cannot be fixed by those means (a slight improvement only), I rather need to go back to the pre-bounce production phase. And the phase issues I had in my own projects before were usually of layered kicks and basses kinds, where I see FUSER as the preferred way, having used it a couple of times for it.

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