DAW USERS What's your favorite most useful plugins?

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kcearl said:
kjaerhus and blockfish make great free plugins, blockfish wont run in ableton though :(

Ive had a good play with these and id use them if i needed them...really good quality

http://www.x-buz.com/BuzCompFree.html
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That's it, The Vintage Channel - VC-64 that I mentioned above was by Kjaerhus and liscensed to Cakewalk. I read that they are out of buisness though so I wonder what Cake will do with it in the next release? ( I think it wil be Sonar 8.5.3.2.5.7.4.3.5.7.8.9.2.3!!!!!!!
 
yeah it was based on their golden channel i think....


shame they went tits up..I still use their free delay over most others...

another set is Nomads liquid bundle...i got that for under 100 bucks from Florida music (they always seem to have decent deals), some of the bundles excellent


no more plugins for me though...
 
kcearl said:
kjaerhus and blockfish make great free plugins
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This^^

I use the kjaerhus stuff a lot. The classic compressor and reverb are generally my go-to comp and verb.

I like betabugs stuff. Their W1 limiter is my favourite limiter. Doesn't seem to color things as much.

As far as EQs go. I like the Paris EQ. But good luck finding it nowadays.
 
legionserial said:
This^^

I use the kjaerhus stuff a lot. The classic compressor and reverb are generally my go-to comp and verb.

I like betabugs stuff. Their W1 limiter is my favourite limiter. Doesn't seem to color things as much.

As far as EQs go. I like the Paris EQ. But good luck finding it nowadays.
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theres one more that deserves to be mentioned with kjaerhus and block fish and thats jeroen breebaarts freebies

http://www.jeroenbreebaart.com/

these are excellent as well...
 
Greg_L said:
That's SSG being his usual pompous, holier-than-thou self. He can't help it.




I like the Antress Modern series stuff.
Blockfish
Kjaerhus classic delay
Reaper has a few nice stock plugs like ReaEQ and Reaverb (convolution reverb)
Density MKII

Nothing fancy
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The ReaEQ and ReaComp are probably my single most used plugins in any mix. I like them for two reasons - because I can afford them, and because they effective but efficient. ReaComp in particular is the easiest compressor plugin I've ever used for sidechain compression.

The Antress stuff is nice, and also freeware which I give them major points for, but I need to spend some more time getting the hang of it. I wish it had better monitoring options (part of the reason I've been more hesitant than I'd like to be using it - it seems like a lot of the other options I have are more user friendly) but they're good sounding plugins.

I understand Glen's perspective and for a lot of material I totally relate - if I was mixing a fairly sparse acoustic-based vocal track, I'd be wanting to keep everything as organic as possible. However, the stuff I write is pretty dense, heavily layered instrumental guitar music that most of you would probably call "metal," and by convention it's rare to find a metal mix where a single track isn't run throguh something - two or more EQs and compressors on a single track isn't exactly unheard of.
 
Kjareus (sp) stuff was great to start on, although most of their plugs have been supplanted either by my UAD plugs or newer freeware stuff (like Bootsy Variety of Sound's plugs). Their Delay is still pretty damn awesome though, and I don't plan on replacing that anytime soon. I also like their Flanger and Phaser, but those are special effect plug-ins so used very sparingly.

As mentioned above, Bootsy's stuff is great. TesslaSE is great on beefening up clean guitars or synths. DensityMk II is the reason why I haven't bought the UAD Fairchild. I never used drum overhead compression before I got that plug, but now I do. Next time I record acoustic guitar and piano I'll use it too. Fantastic. TesslaPro and Ferric TDS are great 2-buss plugs to tighten up a mix for release.

Although as far as UAD reverbs go, I love, love, love the EMT 140. I never found a reverb I liked (I thought Glaceverb is cool but its more for special effect reverbs rather than replicating real reverberation), but once I bought that, I was hooked. I went from a "no artificial reverb" man to "pro-verb" overnight. Just have to be careful not to wash everything out.

Reaper plug-ins are cool but I don't use them too much. I used to use their EQ but I hated the hi-pass filter on it. I then used Electri-Q freeware edition, which is freaking amazing, but it crashes REAPER, so after I switched over I ended up going to the NoName EQ (which is made by the same guy).
 
I use Blockfish to compress bass on all of my recordings.
I find myself using Freeverb to get a quick reverb up and going. Sometimes I'll keep this reverb or replace it with my analog plate reverb.

If you think of Ozone as a plugin then yes I use Ozone 3 on my mixes.
 
Seafroggys said:
Kjareus (sp) stuff was great to start on, although most of their plugs have been supplanted either by my UAD plugs or newer freeware stuff (like Bootsy Variety of Sound's plugs). Their Delay is still pretty damn awesome though, and I don't plan on replacing that anytime soon. I also like their Flanger and Phaser, but those are special effect plug-ins so used very sparingly.
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Totally agree. Their delay is great. Flanger/phaser good too. The rest, meh.
 
PSP Vintage Tube warmer.:drunk:

It can warm a track. It can give it punch. It can crisp the top end. It can deep fry in into saturation. It can compress a signal. It can dam well about do anything. All in one FREE plug in (if you can still find it)
If I were left with one plug in...that's it. Guitars, bass, vocals, etc.
 
matttheaxe said:
PSP Vintage Tube warmer.:drunk:

It can warm a track. It can give it punch. It can crisp the top end. It can deep fry in into saturation. It can compress a signal. It can dam well about do anything. All in one FREE plug in (if you can still find it)
If I were left with one plug in...that's it. Guitars, bass, vocals, etc.
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I tried to use that thing, but it gives me a bunch of latency for some reason.
 
BLP said:
I've heard Waves mentioned alot, I'm going to look into it just out of curiosity
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From what I've seen they are very expensive. I just cant spend 600 bucks for one mastering plugin, even though I hear they are great. Anyone use waves stuff?
 
PDP said:
From what I've seen they are very expensive. I just cant spend 600 bucks for one mastering plugin, even though I hear they are great. Anyone use waves stuff?
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You can get all the waves stuff you want if you know how to use torrents.

I would never do such a thing though.
 
Is that like a download site? I always think it'll be my luck to get some Hard Drive eating virus. LOL Thanks.
 
Greg L, what DAW are you using? I'm on Sonar 7 and have no problems.
 
matttheaxe said:
Greg L, what DAW are you using? I'm on Sonar 7 and have no problems.
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Reaper. The plug works, but it has latency and I'm not interested/saavy enough to correct it. Not a single one of my millions of other plug-ins gives me any trouble.
 
I used Adobe Audition 3, (paid for) and my only add on to the program is a few free kjaerhus VSTs I put into it that I like to use on most mixes.


The classic reverb and classic delay gets used the most followed by the compressor a few times



I'm looking into UAD with hardware eventually just don't want to overkill my set up with what I don't need at the moment.
 
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