TOP 10 Plug-Ins In My Home Studio | Plug-Ins I'm Excited To Use In 2020

[@AndrewMasters]

Drop your favorite plug ins!

[@_benhong]

Valhalla Vintage Verb and Little Alter Boy! Thanks for sharing your top ten plug ins, great video!

[@AndrewMasters]

Love them! Are you using the alter boy on vocals?

[@paulward1586]

Abbey Road Studio 3. Best purchase ever. With the head tracker.

[@_benhong]

Andrew Masters yeah adlibs and vocal chops when sampling records and stuff. honestly love the whole sound toys bundle. definitely need to get my hands on the fab filter plug ins

[@omersheer]

UADs Manley VOX BOX emulation is exceptional

[@airutub3r]

Man the plugins they have these days are extraordinary. Speaking of rabbit holes - I love your entire channel.

[@AndrewMasters]

Right??

[@AndrewMasters]

and Thank you.

[@J_Costa15]

Don't know how your clients would feel but I'm sure everyone here would love to see some mix examples and tutorials from you!

[@AndrewMasters]

That's a fantastic idea! A record I'm producing is going to be trickling out over the next several months. I will definitely be doing some track by track videos with that! I'm mega pumped for it.

[@coryhofing-drummer7441]

I am loving the Townhouse Bus compressor for my drum and instrumental bus.

[@surefmeurope5766]

I'm exactly the same when it comes to compression, I particularly like multi band processing on the mix bus it can add so much to the mix

[@mullethillsound]

Soothe solves problems in 5 seconds that I might spend a half hour trying to fix with dynamic EQ or deesers or whatever garbage. I upgraded to Soothe2, mostly for the upgraded algo rather than the ability to deal with low end since that hasn't been an issue. But who knows, the low end Soothe2 treatment may blow me away. As far as UAD, the Neve 1073 in unison mode with generous EQ boosts is outstanding. Just boost a knob, audition frequency options, and the sweet spot just leaps out. Then adjust the boost to taste. Loving the videos. Thanks!

[@AndrewMasters]

Preach bro. Totally agree! I gotta get that UAD 1073.

[@mullethillsound]

@@AndrewMasters Do. It.

[@dannyharvey8470]

I probably have a 20,000 lonely rabbits from venturing down "rabbit holes" due to plugins I have bought and ended up not using! ;-) seriously though just recently bought UAD Neve 1073 , Studer, Ampex tape and very quickly starting to go on every track (bar the Ampex - that goes across the mix bus). Couldn't believe how much easier it is to mix just by adding these! Please keep your videos coming they are very inspiring!

[@OffShiftProductions]

I'm glad I found your channel. Straightforward and informative. I'm a fan of the Slate bundle. I've been experimenting with using the Virtual Mix Rack to put their virtual console on, then using their Virtual Tape Machine and doing that on nearly every channel. The changes to the sound are subtle, but i kind of dig it. I've been inundated with friends telling me to check out/get the Vulf Compressor. Haven't yet taken the plunge yet. I've been searching far and wide recently for a plug in that does really bad tape emulation - with the wow and flutter effects with some saturation. I found an awesome one but it's built in ableton and I'm not using ableton as much anymore.

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks Samuel! Yeah Slate has done a pretty fantastic job with their subscription. I reeeeeaally want to get the UAD version. They have a sick tape machine plug in.

[@KellBailey]

Hey!! What kind of computer monitor do you use ?

[@Markpianist1]

Late to this party but for plugins I use many of the ones you do but I use Native Instruments ssl bus compressor on my two bus. For mixing tracks that didn't use a console or high end preamps I use Wave NLS. Also, UAD Studer A800 24 track tape machine to take the edge off of digital and to make more of fat sound.

[@BurntSquirrel]

You should try the Brainworx stuff , especially the SSL consoles plugins and they have a new Focusrite console plugin that is awesome.

[@AndrewMasters]

Right on, I’ll check them out!

[@kevinabadie9409]

Kazrog - True Iron ;)

[@AndrewMasters]

What do you use it on?? That's the transformer plug right?

[@kevinabadie9409]

@@AndrewMasters I use it on all my instrument busses. Gives me a nice depth and openness to the sound.

[@AndrewMasters]

Oh sweet!

[@XxdillffxX]

@@AndrewMasters You could use it in so many ways... I love this plugin on guitars. It sounds great in every stuff

[@johnnewtoniv1637]

ozone also has a really amazing reverb, i can let you mess with the uad plugins before you buy, i bought a satellite octo and specifically didnt have the guy transfer it to me because he owned the majority of the uad plugs, shh

[@AndrewMasters]

Woah, I had no idea ozone had reverbs.. crazy. Yes totally going to take you up on the UAD!

[@johnnewtoniv1637]

Andrew Masters it's hilarious being able to throw a shadow hills master comp on your parallel drum bus just because you can, sounds killer too

[@AndrewMasters]

That's sick

[@MarcWeertsMusic]

Cool video, great to hear about what plugins you use and even better, why. Personally, I use a lot of vstis (specifically NI Kontakt and several U-He ones) but relatively few vst effects, although I put the NI Replika XT delay and NI RC 48 reverb on virtually every track... 😄 Also, I like to use NI Guitar Rig 5 on percussion tracks.

[@AndrewMasters]

That's awesome, native instruments is awesome!

[@airutub3r]

1:03 lol

[@AndrewMasters]

Sooo subtle.

[@KevisaVivose]

Hey man, a couple of questions. You were talking about "mix bus", "drums bus", so what exactly is a "bus"? Haha. I've seen it on my mixer , but I still don't really know what exactly it is, or what it does. Lol Second question : Opinions on the stock plug-ins in Logic Pro X?

[@AndrewMasters]

Bus is simply a path to send audio. So my ‘drum bus’ is 1 stereo aux track. I send all of my drum audio tracks through that single stereo aux track. Now you can process all of the drum tracks as one. I haven’t used the logic stock plugins in quite some time but I would imagine they are pretty solid!

[@lunarlabaudio]

No mention of Plugin Alliance? Try their subscription for 1 month and you’ll never stop it. They make tons of the UAD plugins.

[@ardobkin]

Would’ve loved to hear the examples

[@AndrewMasters]

I will have some mix videos coming soon, so you can check them out!

[@caroll2352]

😁😁😁😁😁GI GI

[@AndrewMasters]

Yes!

[@SlackerStuff]

Yo! I think you gotta add the to the patreon link, it wasn't "link"ing. Stoked for you dude!

[@AndrewMasters]

Wow haha thanks bro. Rookie move.

[@SlackerStuff]

@@AndrewMasters I gotchu fam

[@icedtorres]

that's the same wallpaper that Ola Englund uses!

[@AndrewMasters]

Comes stock with the OS, it is nice though.

[@icedtorres]

@@AndrewMasters I did not know that. I'm a PC guy myself. Mac Mini right?

[@louisjans9450]

Before you invest in more UAD, just check out Acustica Audio.

[@AndrewMasters]

Will for sure, thanks for the recommendation!

[@XxdillffxX]

There's 3 insanely great free plugins by acoustica audio that I love so much: 1- baxter eq (baxandal ex); 2- the tan (great comp); 2- coffee the pun (pultec style eq)

[@laneysommer]

😀😀😀😀😁😁 LAYLA

[@AndrewMasters]

Layla!

[@LucDiGiuseppe]

If you disagree, smash the like button..... I laughed so hard.