There are obvious good ones in the Melda MFreeFXBundle such as as MCompressor and MWaveshaper, but one hidden gem in there is MRatioMB. It's a crossover, but with many ways to split the signal other than frequency. My favorite is using the detailed controls of its Attack/Release device to isolate transient and tonal aspects of a signal and send them to different channels for processing. Then they can be recombined with MRatio.
Airwindows has always been such an underrated jem! I'm so happy Bacon Paul (from the Surge team, which is also one of the best free plugins ever) made a Consolidated version.
ive never actually checked out surge xt as I'm a eurorack guy and pretty much only use that for synthesis, but the sounds that roger linn came up with in the showreel video are great.
Some of Chris's stuff is sneaky, amazingly good. Like game changer good. They pretty much all have settings that make it very easy for the plug into sound bad.... Extremely wild variances so it takes some doing to learn what you're doing... and which ones are going to be incredible for you and how to best use them.
@@APMasteringMolot GE is so much better than the free version imo that people should just wait for a sale for when it drops to 10 or 20 bucks and just get it.
I know Nova for long time a very love it. I use it in almost every project as deesser, dynamic eq and sometimes as expander. And don't forget, it can do sidechain multiband compression.
Lol, you know I've had nova for a long time. I pretty much only use it for dynamics. I fully realise that dynamics make up most of audio balancing, but for some reason I've never thought about using it for all these 😂. A lot of plugins are about to get shelved in my collection.
I've been using that limiter for years, still prefer it over brainworx true peak. Can you do a video on you favorite paid plugins next? I enjoyed this/didnt know nova could do all that- thought it was just a standard eq plugin
Cardinal slept on yet again! You did cover VCV Rack, which Cardinal clearly derives from and is nearly identical to... But something about having all that power in the context of a plugin really changes your perspective.
What I really don't like on TDR nova are the axes scales. Why in the hell you would want to see a 40kHz frequency scale for e.g. ? Really annoying. And I would like to be able to zoom the db scale too
LSP plugins are awesome for the price of $0, a few years back they weren't so stable or well presented, but now that has all changed: give 'em a try if you are unconvinced.
@@APMastering Audio on Linux was a mess, it has improved a lot... I have installed TDR's Nova, works a charm thanks to yabridge (`A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugins on Linux`)
Linux is perfect for making music, efficient stable system, low-latency kernel. The only problem is the limited number of plugins, because developers bypass Linux. LSP plugins are great, they fill a lot of gaps. Too bad NOVA is not on Linux. I know it's WINE but it's an added complication just because there are no native solutions
i dont mean to be rude but im a little concerned about trusting you when your mic audio sounds so.... watery? it sounds like severe aliasing (no idea if that's what it is, but that's what it sounds like) that being said nova is absolutely stellar ...get it?
not sure what you mean by watery. This isnt my mastering studio (Im a mastering engineer not recording engineer). this is just a spare bedroom with a little condenser microphone on the desk.
2015 macbook pro. i recently went to buy a 16" M3 but decided isn't not all that much of an upgrade for me so I'm waiting a bit longer. the only thing thats annoying me is quicktime screen recording has gotten slow
are you on mac? did you put the files in the right folders? did you accidentally put the folders in the folders? did you get an unidentified developer warning? send me an email 😎
I'm tired of seeing no one mention ZL Equalizer, it has 16 bands, mid/side, dynamic bands and it's not only free but OPEN SOURCE, Nova is so last-decade ngl
I am open to free plugins. However i would never let an important project depend on then. Reason is, while it is free at first glance, statistically i have had many older projects that i would open after a couple of years only to find out that some of them are not supported anymore, or the developer stopped …. developing, ceased to exist etc etc. When i bought pro q3 which was my first fab devices plugin i now know, i don`t see them disappearing that soon. So there are advantages and disadvantages to the whole „free“ thing, though i am not trying to stop anyone from trying it , don`t get me wrong
TDR does their updates, they usually upload them at the same time for the paid and free versions. And tbh, I’m still running some 10 year old plugins on my new PC (from VOS, who is heavily featured in this video). No problems ever. They work fine every single time. For 10 years, that is.
That depends a lot on the DAW you're using as well. You can still use those oldass 32-bit plugs on FL Studio and Reaper, I still use a few of those myself on a regular basis.
@@sparelladon't live in the past! your life is now. use the plugins you wanna use and bounce a lot of audio so that backwards compatibility doesn't matter
