FREE Plugin Resources

[miked]

==== FREE Bundles ====

Blue Cat Audio: https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Bundle_FreewarePack/

Boz Digital: https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/product-category/free/

Hofa: https://hofa-plugins.de/en/plugins/4u/

Klanghelm: https://klanghelm.com/contents/main.php

Melda: https://www.meldaproduction.com/product/keyword?keyword=free

Plugin Alliance: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products.html?flags[]=free&sort=manufacturerZA

Sonic Anomaly: https://sonic.supermaailma.net/plugins

Tokyo Dawn Labs: https://www.tokyodawn.net/tokyo-dawn-labs/

Voxengo: https://www.voxengo.com/group/free-vst-plugin-download/

==== FREE Resources ====
KVR’s Searchable PLugin Database:

Free effect VST Plugins and VST3 Plugins for Windows

FREE Plugin Blog:

Free VST Plugins (Top 100)

Splice FREE Plugins:

Splice - Royalty-Free Sounds & Rent-to-Own Plugins

==== ALL STAR individual plugins (not in bundles above) ====

Bass Professor II: (about halfway down the page, bears repeating from free bundle above)
https://sonic.supermaailma.net/plugins

TSE BOD (SansAmp emu):
https://www.tseaudio.com/software/tseBOD

LaGrange Delay:

Lagrange by Ursa DSP - Delay VST Plugin, Audio Units Plugin and VST 3 Plugin

SonEQ:

SonEQ - Sonimus

Limiter No. 6:

Limiter №6

MTPowerDrums:
https://www.powerdrumkit.com/

Youlean Loudness Meter:

FREE Loudness Meter

Here’s a really decent loudness meter that has taken over that spot on my mixbus lately. It’s really easy on the eyes and seems to work great. He was the winner of the KVR Developer Challenge a couple of years ago and has continued to work on it. https://youlean.co/ I just noticed he’s got an online Loudness Meter as well that currently tells you the “Momentary Max”, the “Short Term Max” and the “Integrated Loudness” in LUFS.

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Some free (and good!) reverbs in this thread:

Free Reverbs

zynaptiq:SUBSPACE https://www.zynaptiq.com/subspace/ Acon Digital Reverb Solo: https://reverb.com/software/effects/acon-digital/47-reverb-solo New convolution reverb added to the Free Melda bundle (I haven’t used this one yet.): https://www.meldaproduction.com/MConvolutionEZ

==== Plugin Discounters ==== (Tried and true)

You can get a discounted price, even on sale items, when you buy through the discounters. These are the main ones I use.

EveryPlugin:
http://everyplugin.com/
(use code: YNY23 in shopping cart)

Koby at EveryPlugin can even hook you up with Waves upgrades. I you own one or some of the plugins in a bundle that is on sale, email him and ask what the “upgrade” price is, just like on the “My Products” section on the Waves website. He can also do WUPs (if you’re in to that sort of thing. )

AudioDeluxe:
https://www.audiodeluxe.com/

Plugin Boutique:
https://www.pluginboutique.com/

Enjoy!

[Jonathan]

@Tesgin

There we go! All you man!

[Sven]

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/free-vst-plugins/

[Tesgin]

This is excellent. I’m familiar with plugin boutique. Have gotten some stuff from them. Very pleased. Audiodeluxe has great prices. I’ll check on the upgrade thing.

[miked]

I thought I’d stick this here - The Top 25 FREE VST Plugins of 2018

Boz made the list!

[Stan_Halen]

Boz made the list!

Right, not sure where they got their info for the description though …

Based on the legendary Pultec EQP-1A equalizer

I thought it was based on, you know …

[miked]

I think because of the “Pultec” bump: (from Boz’s website)

The passive mode is … designed to work like a the simultaneous boost and attenuation of a famous passive EQ.

[Stan_Halen]

the “Pultec” bump

Ah, I see. I remember Boz doing a video talking about how that worked on the Pultec, but I thought that was unrelated to how BoD was designed. I thought that BoD came from the investigation that a well-known rather-pricey plugin (manufacturer) packaged a simple resonant high-pass filter in a fancy suit. Perhaps the Pultec story was better PR.

[Stan_Halen]

the “Pultec” bump: (from Boz’s website)

Ah, I think I see what’s happening now, version 2 added that feature. It looks like it got named “Passive”, as opposed to the Classic mode which I think is the basic resonant high-pass filter. There’s also a Combo mode that presumably blends both.

Bark of Dog plugin question

I should mention, I have a version 2 of Bark of Dog coming out at some point. I have the prototype done, I just need to put graphics to it. Version 2 will have 2 modes: Classic and Pultec (although the pultec name will be different for trademark purposes). Classic mode is the same as it is in the original, with a slight change in the taper of the knobs. Same sound though. In pultec mode, it will be like simultaneously adjusting the boost and attenuation of a pultec, but in a single knob. I actually like it a lot.

[faruqa97]

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