The Official Dynamic and Mastering plugins
iZotope: is probably my favorite third-party plugin manufacturer. I have purchased a few of their products. I have been a customer of iZotope since Ozone 5 and I can say that their plugins are some of the best I have ever used. They make some plugins for free that are wonderful plugins. Here are some of them
Ozone Imager: This is a FREE stereo imaging plug-in for your DAW or NLE. Born from Ozone 8’s legendary Imaging technology, Ozone Imager can narrow or widen your stereo image with simple controls, stunning visuals, and incredible sound.
iZotope Vocal Doubler: is a free plug-in designed to enhance your vocal with a natural doubling effect, adding richness and depth. Our acclaimed doubling technology has been reimagined with a brand new interactive UI dedicated to helping you achieve a great double faster than ever.
Izotope’s Vinyl: Simulates the dust, scratches, warp, and mechanical noise reminiscent of yesteryear for FREE with Vinyl. Perfect for music production and audio post, Vinyl lets you control each nostalgic element independently, giving you all the vintage turntable sounds you love. Control each of Vinyl’s characteristics independently, introducing noise, saturation, warble, crackling, and more without introducing associated audio side effects. Dial-in as much or as little of each to add something unique to individual tracks or give a full-on nostalgic treatment to an entire mix. It’s all the lo-fi sounds you want, with none of the lo-fi sounds you don’t.
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TOKYO DAWN LABS or TDK: are very high-quality audio processors. They are compatible with VST, Audio-Unit, and AAX audio plugin hosts. Some of their plugins include Nova, Molotok compressor, parallel dynamic equalizer, Slick E.Q. Proximity, Feedback Compressor, and Kotelnikov. For a modest price, you can by the gentleman’s version and unlock even more features. The free versions are very useful and very good.
TOKYO DAWN LABS click here
Fresh Air: is based on vintage exciter circuits and advanced dynamics processing. This plugin is based on classic Dolby-A noise reduction modded exciters. Fresh Air lets you add just the right amount of brilliance & shine to your mix in a simple interface you can start using right away. Put it on individual tracks or your entire mix bus. Fresh Air adds brilliance and shimmer to make your tracks stand out. Several advanced parallel processes are combined under the hood to magically elevate individual tracks or lift your entire mix with stunning clarity.
Download Fresh Air Here
GSat+ is derived from the saturation module on the TBProAudio CS5501V2 channel strip plug-in. It has several different saturation modes, high tweakability, oversampling, old-school VU meters and cross-platform software compatibility.
Get GSat+ Here
Chow Tape Model: is a digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260, but has since been expanded to be able to model a wide variety of tape machines.
Chow Tape was originally developed as part of the Music 420 class at Stanford University. The project led to an academic paper, “Real-Time Physical Modelling for Analog Tape Machines which was presented at the 2019 DAFx Conference.
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ZL Equalizer: is an equalizer plugin with the following key features:
- Multiple Filter Settings: Supports 16 frequency bands, 8 filter types, 5 stereo modes, 7 variable slopes and 2 filter structures.
- High-Quality Sound: With 64-bit floating-point processing and de-cramping technique, outstanding performance is ensured in both low-end and high-end.
- Adjustable Dynamics: Adjustable threshold, attack, release, and side-chain frequency, etc.
- Carefully Designed Interface: Interactive spectrum graph, smart collision detection, and smooth animations.
If you like expensive Equalizers like Fab Filter then you will like this Plugin and the price is right. This is one of the best eq plugins I have seen paid or free.
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Blue Cat Audio: These free dynamic and mastering plugins are a very high-quality set of useful tools from Blue Cat Audio. Some great modulation effects, meters, and EQ’s are included. They come in a variety of formats.
Blue Cat click here
Medal: This collection of over 30 plugins is so amazing it is hard to believe they are free. For a small fee, you can add a whole bunch of features to the already outstanding free versions of this set. However, these plugins are great just the way they are. Melda also has other plug-in sets available. These are great for mixing and mastering a project. If you have no tools in your toolbox start here! This is a must-have set for any DAW!
Melda click here
FreeG Fader and Meter is great for applying additional stage gaining at the end of an effects chain and it is also great to put into the main bus. The trim knob is great for stage gaining and the fine button allows you to make micro-adjustments to the fader. it’s a very useful plugin.
mvMeter2: is a multivariable meter including RMS, EBUR128, VU, and PPM measurement.
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Voxengo: SPAN is a free real-time “fast Fourier transform” audio spectrum analyzer AAX, AU, and VST plugin for professional sound and music production applications. There are a lot of really great plugins in this collection of free plugins from Voxengo. They are available in both 32 and 64-bit versions. They work well and this set provides a lot of useful tools. Check out all the free plugins Voxengo puts out
Voxengo click here
GonioMeter: is completely free. The perfect tool to ensure that content you create is of high quality and mono down-mix compatible, an absolute must for mobile entertainment. Visualize the spatial sound field, stereo balance, left/right balance spectrum and correlation spectrum in real time.
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SN02-G VU Meter: This is a no-frills mono/stereo/mid-side VU meter VST plug-in that can save you from headaches and potential VU metering analysis paralysis. It is a very accurate and useful plugin
Download It Here
IVGI: can deliver very soft and subtle saturation, that feels at home on the master buss. IVGI reacts dynamically to the input signal. Even the modeled fluctuations react dynamically and also change depending on the drive setting so that it doesn’t get in the way of the sound.
IVGI click here
DC1A: looks like a one-trick pony. But don’t get fooled by the lack of additional controls. You may be surprised when you see how many different things this little thing works with. DC1A has a few tricks up its sleeve: negative (over) compression, parallel (New York style) compression, option to compress left and right channel independently (via the DUAL MONO switch), peak and RMS compression (RELAXED switch on) and DEEP activates a high pass filter to reduce pumping on bass heavy material.
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CHANNEV: is the ultimate channel-strip with Mic Preamp, De-Esser, Line-Amp, 4 band equalizer, Compressor, Limiter and Tape Saturation!
Features include Simple trim screw on preamp section will set input level, Mic preamp with 60dB Virtual Gain, PAD, and Phase Invert. Also, Pre-EQ (Low Shelf/High Shelf) and HPF/LPF, De-Esser with Bell and Soft options. It will help you to tame highs! 4 Band 81 Style Eq with variable frequency instead of limited selectable frequencies. While Low and High bands have bell option, mid bands have Hi-Q option. Also, included Post-Filter same as Pre-Filter. Limiter and Compressor based on 2264 but now totally independent and each has its own external side-chain. Latest module is Tape Saturation. It will help you add tape saturation and glue overall signal. Fixed 2X light oversampling to keep CPU lower.
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T-De-Esser: is a simplified and easy-to-use De-Esser that smoothes out high frequencies while maintaining a natural and musical sound. Brightening up audio has never been easier.
Download T-De-Esser Here
Toned: is a specialized tone-shaping plugin with analog modeling. It is designed primarily for use in the mastering process or on two-track audio busses. Toned uses two distinct equalization processes: a three-band tone-shaping matrix, and a specially designed high pass (HP) filter.
Toned click here
LoudMax: is a Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer Plugin with a clean transparent sound. It is designed to retain the original character of the music as much as possible even at high compression levels.
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Variety of sound: offers some great plugins. The person that developed this plugin series is a computer scientist and musician. He likes designing DSP algorithms and plugin concepts. He does incredible work and he freely shares them with us. What a nice guy! His work is amazing.
Variety of Sound Click Here
Reaper: has a reputation for being a very good DAW platform. This recording application is popular and it is a low-cost solution for those that want to record music but not spend a small fortune on software. Now you can get the standard plugins that work inside Reaper for free.
Reaper click here
Code Red Free Preamp & EQ by Shattered Glass Audio: Code Red Free is inspired by a classic, all-tube, British console form the late 60s. The original console was known for its EQ, bold and punchy character, and the warmth it imparted. The Beatles recorded most of their material using this, and other versions of this console.
Code Red Free Preamp & EQ
sixtyfive: is a vintage-style, RMS Compressor, inspired by the dbx® 165A, a classic 1970’s compressor found in many studios, but it also adds a couple of new twists.
sixtyfive click here
OTT: is a free re-creation of a popular aggressive multiband upwards/downwards compressor set-up used by many dubstep and electro producers.
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vladg/sound: This is a really good limiter. It also works as a multi-band limiter
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