Which 1 or 2 essential plugins?

darius

Many many plugins x many many knobs per plugin x time = never actually finish anything.

I am on a self limiting mission.

Tell me the ONE FREE plugin you can use to get perfectly good result simply for each of

Compressor

EQ

Reverb

Delay

for tracking AND mixing in your DAW.

Points for lowest control knobs, fewest options, most usable presets, gorgeous graphics. Cos looks is everything.

newi123

EZ mix?  But not free....... 

blobb

Tokyo Dawn Labs Nova / Kotelnikov / Slick EQ are freebies worth having. I get a lot of use out of the Nova EQ.

Musicwolf

darius said:

I am on a self limiting mission.

Tell me the ONE FREE plugin you can use to get perfectly good result simply for each of

Compressor

EQ

Reverb

Delay

Cubase comes bundled with perfectly usable examples of all of the above, as do many other DAWs.

Stop fucking about.  Make some music, not excuses 

darius

Musicwolf said:

Stop fucking about.  Make some music, not excuses 

Thats the plan.

If you could just answer the question please.

So I can spend a few hours fucking about (researching your answers) I'll get right on and stop fucking about :-)

rico

blobb said:

Tokyo Dawn Labs Nova / Kotelnikov / Slick EQ are freebies worth having. I get a lot of use out of the Nova EQ.

This! Really nice plugins and a bargain.

The Focusrite 2 & 3 (EQ & comp) that came with my Scarlett are great too. 

PolarityMan

ReaEQ and ReaComp are both serviceable and can be used outside of reaper if you so choose. 

rico

PolarityMan said:

ReaEQ and ReaComp are both serviceable and can be used outside of reaper if you so choose. 

They have awful awful GUI though.

octatonic

Free

Compressor: Klanghelm DC1a
EQ: Blue Cat Triple EQ
Don't have a suggestion for verb or delay.

Paid

Compressor: Empirical Labs Arouser
EQ: Fabfilter Pro Q3
Reverb: Valhalla Vintage Verb
Delay: Soundtoys Echoboy

fastonebaz

+1 for the free Nova set.  Also Melda comes with a huge free bundle but their EQ gui is nice

oaf

https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb/

for the free reverb.

darius

octatonic said:

Free

Compressor: Klanghelm DC1a

That’s what I’m talking about! 2 knobs. Boom. 

octatonic

darius said:

octatonic said:

Free

Compressor: Klanghelm DC1a

That’s what I’m talking about! 2 knobs. Boom. 

It is actually a good compressor too.

Keefy

Compressor - None, if I want compression I use a Cali76 whilst recording.

EQ - ReaEQ in Reaper.

Reverb - For guitar (and sometimes other stuff) I record a wet track (from a real spring reverb unit) alongside the dry track); otherwise ReaVerb in Reaper.

Delay - None, I use an analog delay pedal, sometimes splitting wet and dry to different tracks.

That's how I avoid option anxiety!

The one free plug in that I depend on is MT Power Drumkit.

rico

Keefy said:

Compressor - None, if I want compression I use a Cali76 whilst recording.

EQ - ReaEQ in Reaper.

Reverb - For guitar (and sometimes other stuff) I record a wet track (from a real spring reverb unit) alongside the dry track); otherwise ReaVerb in Reaper.

Delay - None, I use an analog delay pedal, sometimes splitting wet and dry to different tracks.

That's how I avoid option anxiety!

The one free plug in that I depend on is MT Power Drumkit.

OP was probably after compressors for post prod purposes...

octatonic

Keefy said:

Compressor - None, if I want compression I use a Cali76 whilst recording.

How do you use that on drum subs?

Heartfeltdawn

octatonic said:

Keefy said:

Compressor - None, if I want compression I use a Cali76 whilst recording.

How do you use that on drum subs?

It makes for an attractive hat for the drummer. 

Keefy

Heartfeltdawn said:

octatonic said:

Keefy said:

Compressor - None, if I want compression I use a Cali76 whilst recording.

How do you use that on drum subs?

It makes for an attractive hat for the drummer. 

Ha ha!

One way or another, drums come out of a box and I've yet to feel the need to start compressing them or even sub-mixing them. Although I did once separate out the snare onto its own track so that I could distort it.

poopot

Scheps omni and Abbey road mastering.

spend over $50 today and waves will give you a freebie.

mudslide73

I use Abbey Road mastering all the time. I love Waves H Reverb too. 

darius

SSL2 interface came with vocal and drum strips usually £££. Vocalstrip is very good so far and looks fab. But many many buttons.

@octatonic I used that compressor, really good.