The Best Free Plugins NO ONE TALKS ABOUT

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[@plainoldcheese]

Fun fact chow tape actually physically models the electromagnetic effects of the tape. The developer has even published some research papers on the topic

[@Tekkerue]

A free plugin developer that hardly anyone talks about is Yuri Semyonov (Юрий Семёнов on youtube), which is a real shame because his plugins are fantastic.

[@BrainDeadTX]

Looking it up, thank you!

[@Tekkerue]

@@BrainDeadTX You're welcome. :)

[@DJRob4Real]

Name a few then

[@glowaves]

Wow hadn’t heard of him. Thank you!

[@skyborax5159]

If you love his plugins so much why don’t you marry them

[@fdgggfh24]

Thank you for everything you do for us guys! i recently bacame a member and i'm excited for what the future brings :) i'm just a bit worried that you'll rush through the free Masters a bit too fast, if everyone can get SO many of them 😅 hmmm but i'm sure they will sound great anyways, i have faith in you guys! wish you the best

[@jorgeguberte]

What makes the number of plugins released by Analog Obsession even more impressive is the fact that Analog Obsession is just one guy.

[@trushreitsam5802]

For MAutoPitch, the Detector-Settings are not to auto-detect the key you are in... It's what the Plugin uses to DETECT the note you are singing to alter it using the other settings.

[@TheSpecialCostumeShop]

Thanks. Valhalla Supermassive is also an amazing free plugin

[@Dismiazs]

Very nice lists! Using many of the plugins in the list and they are performing very well in my experience.

[@ErixSamson]

I have almost all of them but the Codec by Lese and the Audio Modern ones (I didn't those 2 brands). Thanks for sharing.

[@joelarmendariz8876]

awesome plugins gonna incorporate a few, great info

[@overdarkproduction]

Would be nice if you made a list with links in the description.

[@aceking8989]

THE FREE STUFF! I DEFINITELY live for these kind of stuff😂😂😂, thank you

[@lance134679]

Great list. I've been a bit obsessed with Analog Obsession as I feel my mixes simply got a bit better since I started using them, despite having a bunch of paid plugins I could be using instead. I think it's the simplicity of the hardware-emulated plugins, and possibly the built-in upsampling, though I can't really prove the latter. Thanks!

[@ouz3407]

it really is, and lots of the times I just find similar Ableton racks to paid expensive plugins and that helps too

[@DodgaOfficial]

Dude I'm on the same boat as you, once I really dug into analog obsession, my mixing got so much better. Helps that it really made me go down a rabbit hole of learning about the different hardware units and their different uses. Analog obsession are the main plugins I use for mixing, they sound so good and have incredibly efficient cpu usage.

[@torinshaw1084]

One free plugin that’s amazing and probably some of the best synth plugins I’ve come by is The Juno LX V2 demo plugin. It’s everything you need from a synth with an arp and everything and you can even load and save presets. And the sound of the synth just never lets me down for what I need. 11/10 would recommend.

[@BrainDeadTX]

Great video, thank you!

[@ErixSamson]

Hi have recently replaced the Analog Obsession LALA by the even better free UAD LA-2A emulation. Takes more CPU but the sound is perfect.

[@levipicard7685]

it tends to be be pretty processor heavy on my laptop but it sounds great

[@KeenanCrow]

The UA sounds better but the LALA is zero latency native so it stays in my library for tracking purposes.

[@bigguntmusic2159]

To processor heavy fir my liking. I usually end up using the CLA-2A.

[@eunicepeter7886]

pls help me with LA 2A plugin

[@levipicard7685]

All of the Melda Production free plugins are AWESOME

[@nicolasmauch]

Your videos are great, there's no need to give them clickbait titles! I love your channel, please don't understand me wrong, its just that many of these plugins have already been heavily prased in big channels (including yours, if I can recall) here on KZbin.

[@Brutuscomedy]

Comper is lit for serial compression.

[@Matell]

Impressive plugins

[@malegria9641]

Analog Obsession is the only patreon I pay for.

[@heavenly2k]

I always use t-deesser for electric guitar, cymbals, and vocals but didnt know they had a transient shaper. Good to know. Wouldve been nice to know before i bought another transient designer 🤡

[@afiefzaki6265]

I use LALA for the longest of time until UAD made La-2a free for a limited time a couple weeks ago

[@chrism7554]

3:43 whats that song

[@ReeWebster]

G sat is wicked. But careful of that delay 😂

[@nitroanilinmusic]

Considering you'd be covering overlooked free plugins I had my hopes someone would finally acknowledge Cardinal. Silly me.

[@Rachad]

Which songs did u use in the examples

[@chrism7554]

yeah that song at 3:43 is hard

[@vycashh]

Review of The new botón Mastering in Logic Pro

[@davidgann3251]

Toneboosters Legacy Audio plugin bundle.

[@kevinmerino7432]

Anyone use the convolution reverb?

[@DJRob4Real]

It's so easy to get distortion with Gsat :/

[@peterdvideos]

Hi Sage, FYI the audio on this video is having issues, at least as I listen to it. Otherwise great info.

[@sageaudio]

Thanks for letting me know! When is that happening in the video? Just watched but can't find any issues.

[@lese-audio]

😁

[@robshrock-shirakbari1862]

Jut FYI, Isol8 is not transparent when engaged, even with the filters bypassed. It has a tiny amount of top end distortion/saturation... something that my artist heard on her vocal in the mix print. I was tearing my hair out claiming that nothing had changed from a previous version when I rolled back the latest changes to the previous version settings, and we went back and forth for 2 days. She could hear it only on her iPhone and, when she played it for me on her phone in person I could clearly hear the difference, as well. Come to discover the only difference between the two prints in the end was Isol8 being engaged at the plug-in level on one of them, even though filters were "bypassed." It was audibly different, and I had to acknowledge that she was right. When I removed it, the "zing" went away. It's a great tool; but it's not 100% transparent.

[@KyleTheLandon]

This comment made me stop dead in my tracks and reconsider my life. But then, I finally installed the PluginDoctor demo and loaded ISOL8 into it. Fully transparent. Keep in mind that this is my first time using PluginDoctor, but I'm very sure I'm reading the HarmonicAnalysis page correctly. Especially after bumping up 20 dbs and sweeping through frequencies. Then, I rendered out some tests, with and without ISOL8. They nulled every time. Even in a 32 bit test that clipped hard. My conclusion? At least for me, ISOL8 is fully transparent. Not to call you a liar or anything! Maybe you have an older version or there's something else going on but for me, on Windows 10, in FL Studio 21, with version 2.7.4, VST3 64 bit, 48kHz, ISOL8 is perfectly fine to leave turned on in a render.

[@robshrock-shirakbari1862]

@@KyleTheLandonI’m on a Mac and that was in Logic. I’ve yet to test it in Pro Tools. I also noticed that my output would clip the tiniest bit when engaged if I set a limiter output to 0dB as a test. Check that your output exactly matches your input (with accurate metering). For me, I’ve implemented other solutions to achieve the same functionality that I was getting with Isol8. If things slow down work-wise, I may go back and do a null test in my system, as well. I’d like to get an accurate measurement of the differences we were hearing.

[@KyleTheLandon]

@@robshrock-shirakbari1862 Doesn't Logic work in 24 bit only or something along those lines? Test in Pro Tools and please report back!