When it comes to free plug ins, you can go into a download frenzy. It is as if someone shouted "FREE BEER!!!", you are then left with a pile of plug ins to dig through with little patience to find anything that actually works well enough to become a "go to" tool.
Recently I have tried to purge my mac book of the hundreds that I never use. This is when I stumbled upon two great plug ins from Klanghelm. They make several plug ins that are extremely affordable and probably worth picking up, but it is the two free ones on the website that I love...read on...
The DC1A (Compressor)
http://www.klanghelm.com/DC1A.html
How can you go wrong with a two knob compressor. This could not be more simple to use. It is a combination of Opto and Fet designs that just gives you great punch. The idea here is an input knob and output knob. Great for a drum bus, parallel punch, or individual drums.
IVGI (Saturation and Distortion)
http://www.klanghelm.com/IVGI.html
This one is a little less simple, but give you good flexibility. The great thing is that every one is making a saturation plug in, in order to emulate that sound of running your mixes through classic consoles. Honestly this one should not be free. This is just smart, it gives lots of control for only 4 knobs, and even has modelled cross talk for those stereo tracks. If you don't have a saturation plug in to use on your drum bus to control the drums, I would expect to see this one.
I am currently working on a new EP for Marvin Live and find myself reaching for these tools over some of the plug ins I have paid for in the past. They are available from the Klanghelm website on a free download in AU, and RTAS. I am hoping to see 64 bit AAX soon.
You can check out some of the mixes I have done for Marvin Live at his website below. His new EP featuring these plug ins is called Butterflies and Goldfish and will drop this year!
http://www.marvinlive.com/
Enjoy!
Aaron at LSS
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