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Some other good alternatives to Pro Q3 are the Kirchhoff EQ (forever demo) and TB Equalizer 4 (forever demo), HornetTotal EQ (not free but super cheap when on sale). Honestly the Kirchhoff which has an unlimited demo (just can’t save presets) is virtually a Pro Q3 killer.
I have everyone of these free plugins(except G-Sat + which for some reason I cannot get too work) and they are all good, Nova, Loudmax and MJUCjr I use on every project, without fail, brilliant Plugins. Supermassive and Fresh air I use a lot. Great video as ever
Great video, there's certainly some great free plugins out there! Nova has to be one of the best, it can do a lot of different things! I rarely use it as an equaliser, I use the filters and compression functions more often.
I gotta disagree on the Maag EQ one. That 40khz band is something special. I haven't compared them, but Luftikus made a similar maag style eq and it's free.
I thought the only way to get upward expansion in TDR Nova was if you bought the Gentlemen's edition, which is not what is shown in the video. It's still very cheap compared to FF, but it's a bit disingenuous if you're claiming that the free one gives you upward expansion as well. Still a great free EQ plugin
Thanks for sharing your thoughts - in a lot of the examples that was the paid-for plugin. I think free plugins will catch up to paid for ones pretty soon though.
Not sure if there's a free on that emulates the exact EQ this plugin is based on, but Analog Obsession has a lot of great free analog emulation EQs: analogobsession.com/equalization/
Perhaps others will disagree, but I never really cared for Plugin Alliance stuff. I like their BX Opto compressor and a couple others, but most of their stuff is nothing to get excited about, including the very useless, aforementioned Maag eq.
Why? They were virtually the same to an average listener and the point is comparing to show people with very low budget that they can achieve a similar sound and effect with a free plugin