For those who haven't discovered it yet the ignite amps emissary has "trim pots" on the back of the amp for biasing the power tubes. It's a control you'll instantly love especially if your reamping and want a fuller tone. The pots sweep reacts very realistically which is impressive. The kt88's set about at about 3/4 of the way up really give an excellent tone. I'm a firm believer that plugins will never be as good as a real tube amp but the emissary set right sounds really great. But you have to set it right in other words makes sure you input an output levels are set correctly. The emissary is nothing special with everything at noon but as soon as you dial it in it really is something special.
Fantastic recommendations, Thank you! Will go download a lot of these! I think it is worth mentioning for the YT Video people that VST plugins can work directly in Premiere Pro so you can use them to improve audio there as well.
Dead Duck makes killer stuff. But my favorite multiband compressor is STILL TDR NOVA. It's just hard to beat and it's free from Tokyo Dawn. I was surprised not to see it in your list.
Great Video Glenn! and Great Song Guys! tore it up! i'm gonna have to check a couple of these out. I do like the x50 more than the emissary. but i like the nick crow more than the x-50. i think that's personal taste. i definitely think the x-50 has that brighter tone Glenn likes. compared to the nick crow which is pretty dark and dense. i've found my go to free amp sim is the poulin soldano plugin. i forget what it's called because it was so abstract i relabeled mine 'soldano' a long time ago! (the emissary is great for doing some serious math metal, downtuned djenty stuff, but that's not my style). and if you're checking out Tokyo Dawn try the Slick Eq! it's a great flavored eq with lots of tweakabiltiy, but really easy to use and rock solid presets. great on a master buss to glue your sounds together into something whole and stylish. Try the molot 03 for a great channel strip/voiced compressor, or the nasty VCS! Try the Ferric TDS for some drum saturation! Try the Boot EQ for some awesome 500 series style eq, tube emulation and great saturation.
@@DroneCorpse OK, I don't know whether it is better but I have to say it's a very nice combo you can start using right away. Nadir 2 has a few IRs that sound really nice and the interface is just better better. It is basically the same plugin like Pulse but it is just even easier to use. I get it, Pulse has the Lancaster branding (wink ;-). Who am I kidding, I used Pulse for a long time. :-)
Glad to see the BOD getting some love. I have a multitude of bass amp sims that I've tried in the past - both free and paid for - and the BOD blows them out of the water.
I’m loving thisssss ..., it’s unexplainable how you find all these good free plugins.... to be honest I never expected any good free plugins but man you always surprise us You rock man 🤘🏻
Indeed! This is one of the most helpful RUclips channels I know of. The other being "produce like a pro." Glenn is the most helpful smart ass I know of!!
@@gilbertspader7974 There's also the KVR Audio search engine, where you can filter them by "free". www.kvraudio.com/plugins/vst-plugins/vst3-plugins/effects/free
At 2:28 he says: 'It will still confuse your bassplayer'. But what if, I'm the producer and the bassplayer of my band! Made me laugh. Love your videos man! Much love from The Netherlands!
The TDR Kotelnikov by Tokyo dawn labs sure is amazing!! Love it more and more everytime I use it. Amazing you can get something this good for free. Good recommendation on the dragonfly reverb Glenn! Just got to play around with it and I'm really liking it! Select the room size and bam! Easy to use and sounds damn great! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing!! I was looking for some Sans Amp emulator for my bass sounds, and you just gave the answer! I will also check rest of them (Rea Suite I am already using as I work on Reaper, and I agree it is great).
Cool, always looking out for more free plugins (I figured I'd practice and develop some skills first before I start spending cash). And these are damn great, I was just doing some recording and had great fun with the BOD and the dragonfly. Thanks for these, Glenn! Have you ever checked out the Variety of Sound plugins? Their Thrillseeker VBL is my go-to limiter to make my master sound good.
First I just want to say I absolutely LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! Second I really need some advise on what interface I should get to record drums with..! Thanks a bunch
What about the AirWindows stuff? There's some really great plugins in there, and all free. Even the source code is available for those, and I must say that the guy really knows what he's doing.
Hello Glen I’ve just started watching your channel on tube and I’ve learnt more from your advice than any other sound engineer has ever taught me, so big cheers to you for that sir. I couldn’t help but notice, that in one of your videos, you were wearing a HIWATT t-shirt. Do you use HIWATT in your studio? I currently use the new custom little Rig. Do you recommend (or have you tried) using HIWATT for metal tones? I’m using it for a neo Progressive Rock band I’m currently in and they are truly fantastic, clean pedal platforms. Your thoughts please sir. Thank you Ant 🤘🤘🤘 🇬🇧
Thank you! It's so nice to see a producer who doesn't go completely bonkers on drums. I can't begin to tell you how much of a pet peeve it is of mine to hear drums badly done and overwhelming the rest of the music.
Hey Glenn, I have been finally putting a lot of what I’ve learned from you to use, and realized I haven’t paid enough attention! I was wondering a couple things: In this videos WHY does the reverb channel sound sooo in the back, but when you go full mix, it jumps out? Are you using buses? What the hell even is a bus, never totally knew. Also, could you do a series breaking down different kinds of effects and how to use them in a mix? Going back to rewatch some serious videos, I promise to listen this time, lol. Thanks Glenn!
awesome will be adding these. i have waves plugins but tbh i dont use many of them. now why so many people use samples i dont understand, im a live engineer and i tend to get pretty decent drum sounds on recording in a live venue. good well tuned kit carefull mic placement and aome 1176 smashing on a paralell group gives a really nice sound. a bit of mild tone shaping eq on the groups goes a long way. its not that hard. recently downloaded a multitrack for practice and ditched it after finding lots of channels of samples... like what was the point of recordin greal drums....
I think the growth in people getting into the industry might have to do with that. Unfortunately, when you are doing this solely out of passion and are not really known, it's not common to be able to record real instruments in venues, because of all the resources needed for that and the investment that comes from it. Now of course, recording live is the best option, period. But not everyone can make that happen.
Thanks Glenn, great stuff on there. I have some advice to ask, I'm making my own music at home, mostly older style rock/metal sound, but I'm not liking the end mix, I am a newbie. I'm using Garageband. Which of your playlists should I start with, are there other resources you suggest checking out for beginning home recorders. Any point out would be most appreciated. Rock on.
Awesome video as ever Glenn! 😁 if and when time permits would you mind doing a full-length episode/video on your audio production/dialogue/monologue post-process, please? Thank you. P.S. thanks to you I've just installed a whole bunch of the aforementioned plugins into Adobe Audition for my own youtube videos/content keep up the stellar work dude!.
Hi Ally 👋 I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….
Thanks Glen these look great!! I will be grabbing most of them to try out. Quite looking forward to the one for bass, for those days when I feel pretty stupid and pick the bass up to track things.
Hey Glen, I've done a fair bit of recording as a hired gun and now I'm looking to start tracking my drums from home. I was thinking about getting 2 of the Focusrite Clarett 8PreX, and a mic on every drum (top and bottom on snares, 2 on bass drum as well) plus overheads, a hi-hat mic and a room mic for 13 inputs. I'm really excited to get started! I'm just wondering if you think I'm going in the right direction or do you think that I'm doing too much? Do you recommend a different interface setup? Also, what microphones do you recommend for the bottom of the snare drum and for the room?
That Kotelnikov Comp is definitely an amazing plugin for free. It would be amazing even if it was around $70-$100 range. The only buss comp I will use before it is the Waves SSL Buss Comp, and I have actually used it over the SSL in some mixes.
Tokyo Dawn Records/Tokyo Dawn Labs do the finest plugins which make life easier, The "Gentleman's Edition" of each where applicable/available are worth every bit of the extremely reasonable asking price (or better yet pick up a license for all of them as it comes in even cheaper than purchasing a license for each). Fabien and Vlad who are the main developers are proper top-notch human beings along with Herbert aka Bootsy whose own Variety of Sound plug-ins took freeware to a new level and his genius can be heard whenever using the TDR VoS Slick EQ with the differing saturation that can be dialled in to taste in a number of flavours which in conjunction with the smooth curves of the equalizer create an Equalization plug-in which is ideal I find placed right after a surgical, subtractive/cuts-only equalizer and then gate/expander and compressor of your choice just as you find on any mixing desk/console. Along with Jan who's equally great plug-ins which are co-developed and released by Tokyo Dawn Labs as Ohlhorst Digital (OD in the plug-in name that is Jan's), Fabien's label is great for electronic music and Jan Ohlhorst is a very good mastering engineer with a real ear for detail, Also a great person. The most important part though is their command of the dark arts of coding truly stunning plug-ins, They are so good that they transcend the analogue versus digital paradigm and I happily reach for Tokyo Dawn Labs plug-ins equally, Maybe even more so than I do patch in a selection of very decent outboard equalizer options that I have to choose from, The same is true for Kotelnikov and compressors as it is that good. Limiter 6 is an amazing modular peak-limiter, clipper and loudness maximizer toolkit, I prefer it over any other plug-in options which I have most of the time. Absolute bargains each one is already and honestly, I can't recommend their plug-ins any more highly FWIW. There are also other smaller developers whose quality rivals and depending on your needs/wants can better the big names. Aleksy of Voxengo, Dave Gamble of DMG Audio, Tony Frenzel of Klanghelm, Andy of Cytomic Audio, Sean of ValhallaDSP, Jeroen Breebaart of ToneBoosters, Boz Digital Labs, Kazrog, HoRNet, SKnote.it, DDMF (DocuDead'sMusicFactory), Scott of Stillwell Audio/Schwa and apulSoft are a handful just off of the top of my head of many other smaller but damned great digital audio signal development processing overlords, Yet not the big team brands that are around and develop great stuff that you don't pay through the nose for/don't cost the earth. Great stuff as always Glenn, Sorry I'm a little bit late to this one, Life is life. Cheers
TSE 808 - green overdrive pedal, sounds good before any amp sim to get that tight metal sound. OwnHammer 412 MES-ST V60 - Mesa Boogie impulses with a lot of mics and positions. Ignite Amps PTEq-X - passive tube EQ emulation, sounds good on any bus. Softube Saturation Knob - love it on heavy vocals. MT Power Drum Kit - acoustic drum kit, if you are a bedroom guitar player (just like me) and unable to record real drums, but want your demos get done.
I thought it was, but that big mop of his was covering his face too much for me to be sure! He’s a good friend of mine. I’ve known him since he was a teenager and he used to come into the GC in Indianapolis on the weekends when I was a manager there. He’d grab a guitar and plug it into something, and then all of the other customers would gather around him to watch him. He’s a really special musician and I’m proud of him for all of the success he’s had in his career thus far.
I'm just starting learning recording and mixing so I can be prepared for future plans and your channel is a diamond Glenn! This video came in clutch as well! Thanks so much!
What are your thoughts on the Melda plugins? Personally, I love 'em, especially with my cochlear implant as they are very "visual" so I can fly by instruments!
Hey Glenn, thx so much for these tips and the links, downloading them now and installing into Cakewalk. Btw, what's your opinion about the Cakewalk DAW? Thanks again!
I can't seem to install the vst correctly..I'm opening the user plug ins and pasting the vst there but when I try to apply it to the track it doesn't show up on the fx list..I just see the rea/ cockos vsts? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Thanks Glen! Big help! ...Yet I'm having a big problem getting Ten-Q to work. When I try to add the effect in Reaper it says "information not supported". I noticed in the read me document it says 32 bit only but usable on 64 bit with wrappers. I need to be able to search, cut and boost frequencies. Is there a way to get this to work or any other alternatives?
I recently shifted to cakewalk, great daw btw, it has loads of built in plugins and you don't need anything extra actually to start with the basics. But I needed a good compressor for a drum track, wasn't getting the sound. Tried Kotelnikov, I mean if you're trying to find an unbiased review you won't find it, you either have og fans of it, or people who don't know it. It's that awesome. It gives the drum the required body( you know what I mean), and you can makeup the lost gain, them a bit of eq and space and you're done.
You nailed it Glenn, that TDR Kotelnikov compressor is a kick-ass VST! Also I would mention their SlickEQ which is also a phenomenal plugin. I especially love M/S mode with that EQ because of wideness and clarity. In the same league is Variety of Sound's Baxter Mastering EQ, which sounds absolutely amazing. Again, especially if you use it in M/S mode. Great mastering VST is Vladislav Goncharov's Limiter No6, with which you can achieve really organically subtle wider sound by engaging High Freq Limiter. We live in such a fantastic time where you can have such a great tools for free. Pro audio golden age. Greeting from Serbia. D, LToC
Can’t speak highly enough of the BOD, been using it everywhere for about 18 months, and my mate started using it and instantly got a bass tone he liked having never managed to get bass how he wanted it
I discovered the TSE X50 just last week and it's easily my favourite amp sim VST. Better than the other free plugins and also better than any of the paid ones I've used as well.
I only listen to certain metal bands I have to say coming from another completely opposite genre.... your Always Spot on... Your knowledgeable.. I respect that...Keep up the good work...
Have you tried Gallien-Kruger's free bass amp sim? Thoughts? I just picked it up the other day and it is absolutely the most bone-crushing bass tone from a free plugin I've ever heard. Not I play much bass, but imo it's better than an off-brand sans amp plugin!
Tse x30, through the ignite pta power amp sim using kt88 tubes into ownhammer engl impulses is sick sounding.....another honorable mention, especially for guitars is the tdr nova eq, u can eq and compress bands simultaneously....so instead of cutting certain bothersome frequencies, I just limit them, but ya I m finding that I m using a lot of the free and less expensive ones more than my waves and slate...but there some here i ain’t heard of, so ur info sharing services r always greatly appreciated 🙂
I've been using Loudmax for years now. It's so simple and effective that even people outisde of mixing could understand it. Other than that and the IR Loader these are all new to me!
Is there anywhere we can go to get the multitracks for the song used in this? I have been in a mood to just play around with mixing stuff but don't know where to get stuff to mix!
Great vid! I'm curious as to what the advantage is to these companies by giving their plug ins away free, probably sounds like a dumb question but how do they make money? By impressing you enough to purchase their other products?
I notice you're using a lot of modeling amps. I recently plowed a months wages into a Mark V and I love the tones I'm getting. I'm really looking forward to recording a Djent Blues project later this summer. Did I just waste a shit ton of money, or are good high gain tube amps still a thing? Thanks for your channel, I've learned tons! And fuck you Glen ... in the face!
Hey Glenn, I don't play metal, more rock like AC/DC and Motley and was wondering how I tell if my pickups are bad or not. My guitar is cheap and I want to mod it but I don't see the need to change my pickups because they sound fine to me but they are probably 'cheap and bad' pickups. What advice do you have for me to find this out?
Yeahhh! TSE Audio! Even though I stopped using plugins for guitar sounds years ago, I remember these being scary legit sounding. Like super useful and fast to dial in.
I just want to say that I love mixing with Audio Assault plugins. I’ve been holding to a limitation of using nothing but theirs for no particular reason, and it works out very well. They’re not free, but they’re cheap.
Hello Glenn, how about a video about best metal productions, mix master, your favourits or so. My favourit is Priest live because it is not falling apart when playing it louder as hell. There is the magic happen when it keeps stable with loudness overkill.
Glad I found this video I am new to recording and DAW's. I use Cakewalk and want to have good mixing plugins. Nothing against what comes with Cakewalk.
For those who haven't discovered it yet the ignite amps emissary has "trim pots" on the back of the amp for biasing the power tubes. It's a control you'll instantly love especially if your reamping and want a fuller tone. The pots sweep reacts very realistically which is impressive. The kt88's set about at about 3/4 of the way up really give an excellent tone. I'm a firm believer that plugins will never be as good as a real tube amp but the emissary set right sounds really great. But you have to set it right in other words makes sure you input an output levels are set correctly. The emissary is nothing special with everything at noon but as soon as you dial it in it really is something special.
Fantastic recommendations, Thank you! Will go download a lot of these! I think it is worth mentioning for the YT Video people that VST plugins can work directly in Premiere Pro so you can use them to improve audio there as well.
Had no idea they could be used in premiere. Thanks for the heads up!
@@thedmille5249 Makes life easier if you make videos :)
whaaaaaaa
good tip
I want to add one: Softube's saturation knob. Simple, easy, sounds great
I hard agree with this
Man love this one
@Slide85 it's up on the softtubes website
I can find the page, but no way to download it.
@@Alexander_Tronstad I think you need to download their installer...I can't recall
Dead Duck makes killer stuff. But my favorite multiband compressor is STILL TDR NOVA. It's just hard to beat and it's free from Tokyo Dawn. I was surprised not to see it in your list.
Everything from Tokyo Dawn Labs. Everything. And Variety of Sound.
Before i bought slate stuff and went 99% 64 bit I used to use all the VOS stuff and yeah it is great, if it were 64 bit I'd still use alot of it.
did anyone else get an a7x vibe from the full mix great job glenn
I'm so early I can smell Glenn's conditioner
Lmao
Pert + ?
Hmmm fresh
@Mortachai Epstein Genius pure unadulterated Genius!!!!
The shampoo he uses is “Mane and Tail”
Do you have any experience with automated mastering -- i.e. Landr and ARIA. If so, what's your opinion of them?
Nice mix! And this song totally has an A7X feel
Grabbing all of these as soon as i get home, thank you Glenn.
Great Video Glenn! and Great Song Guys! tore it up! i'm gonna have to check a couple of these out. I do like the x50 more than the emissary. but i like the nick crow more than the x-50. i think that's personal taste. i definitely think the x-50 has that brighter tone Glenn likes. compared to the nick crow which is pretty dark and dense. i've found my go to free amp sim is the poulin soldano plugin. i forget what it's called because it was so abstract i relabeled mine 'soldano' a long time ago!
(the emissary is great for doing some serious math metal, downtuned djenty stuff, but that's not my style).
and if you're checking out Tokyo Dawn try the Slick Eq! it's a great flavored eq with lots of tweakabiltiy, but really easy to use and rock solid presets. great on a master buss to glue your sounds together into something whole and stylish.
Try the molot 03 for a great channel strip/voiced compressor, or the nasty VCS!
Try the Ferric TDS for some drum saturation!
Try the Boot EQ for some awesome 500 series style eq, tube emulation and great saturation.
Solo is totally not Synyster Gates inspired. Sounds good.!!
lol noticed that myself. and i'm not complaining. It was Glorious.
@@slavesforging5361 it actually could be a a7x solo sounds so good
The rythm guitar and drums sounds kinda MIA of a7x
The whole song literally sounds like it's an extra song on City of Evil
I really love this guys energy. I needed some better compressors for my DAW. Thanks!
Ditch pulse and use Nadir 2.its also from Ignite Amps along with Emissary 2. 🙂
Tbh Nadir and ignite can give you sounds as good as the neural dsp Fortin stuff.
@@DroneCorpse OK, I don't know whether it is better but I have to say it's a very nice combo you can start using right away. Nadir 2 has a few IRs that sound really nice and the interface is just better better. It is basically the same plugin like Pulse but it is just even easier to use. I get it, Pulse has the Lancaster branding (wink ;-). Who am I kidding, I used Pulse for a long time. :-)
Why? Pulse is just a newer version with modified interface, both sound the same to me
try out the newer ignite distortion pedal plugins too. they sound great by themselves! don't remember what they're called...
@@gillesderais1293 yeah i found out that they released a new version, didnt knew thanks
Wow! This all sounds killer! Thanks Glenn. Once again, you knocked it out of the park!
Do one for paid ones
ayy showbiz love your profile pic man
EZMix
@@adintyaannasaidhiakharisma5202 come in my caaaaaaaveeeeeeeeeeee
Getting a strong a7x vibes here, i love it.
I think I'll try that Kotelnikov. I'm working in a square room, so I can use all the help I can get for taming a mix. Thanks for this one, man.
Honestly, this is one your BEST MIXING VIDEOS EVER!
Thank you Glen.
Glad to see the BOD getting some love. I have a multitude of bass amp sims that I've tried in the past - both free and paid for - and the BOD blows them out of the water.
So is Avenged Sevenfold gonna be pissed or...? lmao Thanks Glenn. You're awesome, as usual.
I thought that song sounded really Avenged Sevenfold-y.
@@D-Man_Jam me too
Love to watch the distressor’s GR during you speaking!
I’m loving thisssss ..., it’s unexplainable how you find all these good free plugins.... to be honest I never expected any good free plugins but man you always surprise us
You rock man 🤘🏻
@The Kratome Holy shit thanks thanks thanks !!!!!
Indeed! This is one of the most helpful RUclips channels I know of. The other being "produce like a pro." Glenn is the most helpful smart ass I know of!!
So true, I've found so many free plugins from Glenn, and they're so good that I always come back for these videos!
@@gilbertspader7974 There's also the KVR Audio search engine, where you can filter them by "free".
www.kvraudio.com/plugins/vst-plugins/vst3-plugins/effects/free
@@khronscave Thanks dude I will check it out .
At 2:28 he says: 'It will still confuse your bassplayer'. But what if, I'm the producer and the bassplayer of my band! Made me laugh. Love your videos man! Much love from The Netherlands!
My favourite video you ever did Mr Fricker
The TDR Kotelnikov by Tokyo dawn labs sure is amazing!! Love it more and more everytime I use it. Amazing you can get something this good for free.
Good recommendation on the dragonfly reverb Glenn! Just got to play around with it and I'm really liking it! Select the room size and bam! Easy to use and sounds damn great! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing!!
I was looking for some Sans Amp emulator for my bass sounds, and you just gave the answer!
I will also check rest of them (Rea Suite I am already using as I work on Reaper, and I agree it is great).
Cool, always looking out for more free plugins (I figured I'd practice and develop some skills first before I start spending cash). And these are damn great, I was just doing some recording and had great fun with the BOD and the dragonfly. Thanks for these, Glenn! Have you ever checked out the Variety of Sound plugins? Their Thrillseeker VBL is my go-to limiter to make my master sound good.
I just had to cancel my 2 VST-Bundle subcriptions and go full free cuz of money issues.. This is such great timing. Thanks Glen!
First I just want to say I absolutely LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! Second I really need some advise on what interface I should get to record drums with..! Thanks a bunch
What about the AirWindows stuff? There's some really great plugins in there, and all free. Even the source code is available for those, and I must say that the guy really knows what he's doing.
The Dragonfly reverb's lead sounds as awesome as solos on the Somewhere in time album
this came into my feed during coronacation. perfect timing
Dragonfly Reverb is excellent. This thing should be a paid reverb! ITs as good as the Valhalla stuff
Hello Glen
I’ve just started watching your channel on tube and I’ve learnt more from your advice than any other sound engineer has ever taught me, so big cheers to you for that sir.
I couldn’t help but notice, that in one of your videos, you were wearing a HIWATT
t-shirt. Do you use HIWATT in your studio? I currently use the new custom little Rig.
Do you recommend (or have you tried) using HIWATT for metal tones? I’m using it for a neo Progressive Rock band I’m currently in and they are truly fantastic, clean pedal platforms. Your thoughts please sir.
Thank you
Ant 🤘🤘🤘 🇬🇧
Thank you! It's so nice to see a producer who doesn't go completely bonkers on drums. I can't begin to tell you how much of a pet peeve it is of mine to hear drums badly done and overwhelming the rest of the music.
hey glenn! Just got a focusrite scarlett gen 3 solo from my dad for my birthday! Thanks for this video!
Hey Glenn, I have been finally putting a lot of what I’ve learned from you to use, and realized I haven’t paid enough attention! I was wondering a couple things:
In this videos WHY does the reverb channel sound sooo in the back, but when you go full mix, it jumps out? Are you using buses? What the hell even is a bus, never totally knew.
Also, could you do a series breaking down different kinds of effects and how to use them in a mix?
Going back to rewatch some serious videos, I promise to listen this time, lol. Thanks Glenn!
awesome will be adding these. i have waves plugins but tbh i dont use many of them.
now why so many people use samples i dont understand, im a live engineer and i tend to get pretty decent drum sounds on recording in a live venue. good well tuned kit carefull mic placement and aome 1176 smashing on a paralell group gives a really nice sound. a bit of mild tone shaping eq on the groups goes a long way.
its not that hard.
recently downloaded a multitrack for practice and ditched it after finding lots of channels of samples... like what was the point of recordin greal drums....
I think the growth in people getting into the industry might have to do with that. Unfortunately, when you are doing this solely out of passion and are not really known, it's not common to be able to record real instruments in venues, because of all the resources needed for that and the investment that comes from it.
Now of course, recording live is the best option, period. But not everyone can make that happen.
Thanks Glenn, great stuff on there. I have some advice to ask, I'm making my own music at home, mostly older style rock/metal sound, but I'm not liking the end mix, I am a newbie. I'm using Garageband. Which of your playlists should I start with, are there other resources you suggest checking out for beginning home recorders. Any point out would be most appreciated. Rock on.
Awesome video as ever Glenn! 😁 if and when time permits would you mind doing a full-length episode/video on your audio production/dialogue/monologue post-process, please? Thank you. P.S. thanks to you I've just installed a whole bunch of the aforementioned plugins into Adobe Audition for my own youtube videos/content keep up the stellar work dude!.
The impulses gave me goosebumps!
Hi Ally 👋 I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….
Avenged Sevenfold want their song back
Lmao
Everyband they took from wants their riffs back
The Nova from Tokyo Dawn Labs is pretty sick as well
i knew about loudmax before i saw this but im glad he mentioned it. absolute miracle of a plug-in, way too good. 👍
Thanks Glen these look great!! I will be grabbing most of them to try out. Quite looking forward to the one for bass, for those days when I feel pretty stupid and pick the bass up to track things.
I think the drums were getting a little lost in that mix. Maybe needed a freeware saturator to help them cut through.
Sometimes it's ok for the drums to not be as present, especially if the song is focused on guitar and vocal performance.
Hey Glen,
I've done a fair bit of recording as a hired gun and now I'm looking to start tracking my drums from home. I was thinking about getting 2 of the Focusrite Clarett 8PreX, and a mic on every drum (top and bottom on snares, 2 on bass drum as well) plus overheads, a hi-hat mic and a room mic for 13 inputs. I'm really excited to get started! I'm just wondering if you think I'm going in the right direction or do you think that I'm doing too much? Do you recommend a different interface setup? Also, what microphones do you recommend for the bottom of the snare drum and for the room?
Very cool. Gonna add these tonight to my plug in list. thanks Glenn
Great tasty solo! I will be downloading some plugins later on today! Thank you F Master Glenn!
Great video as always. What is the band/piece at 1:48 ? I need more of this in my life :)
This might be the best video you have ever made. Thank you and Rock On!
Thanks for give the importance that drums need. Great job sir.
That Kotelnikov Comp is definitely an amazing plugin for free. It would be amazing even if it was around $70-$100 range. The only buss comp I will use before it is the Waves SSL Buss Comp, and I have actually used it over the SSL in some mixes.
Great video. There are so many top quality free vst plugins out there now. Great selection here! Thanks Glenn. :-)
Tokyo Dawn Records/Tokyo Dawn Labs do the finest plugins which make life easier, The "Gentleman's Edition" of each where applicable/available are worth every bit of the extremely reasonable asking price (or better yet pick up a license for all of them
as it comes in even cheaper than purchasing a license for each). Fabien and Vlad who are the main developers are proper top-notch human beings along with Herbert aka Bootsy whose own Variety of Sound plug-ins took freeware to a new level and his genius can be heard whenever using the TDR VoS Slick EQ with the differing saturation that can be dialled in to taste in a number of flavours which in conjunction with the smooth curves of the equalizer create an Equalization plug-in which is ideal I find placed right after a surgical, subtractive/cuts-only equalizer and then gate/expander and compressor of your choice just as you find on any mixing desk/console. Along with Jan who's equally great plug-ins which are co-developed and released by Tokyo Dawn Labs as Ohlhorst Digital (OD in the plug-in name that is Jan's), Fabien's label is great for electronic music and Jan Ohlhorst is a very good mastering engineer with a real ear for detail, Also a great person. The most important part though is their command of the dark arts of coding truly stunning plug-ins, They are so good that they transcend the analogue versus digital paradigm and I happily reach for Tokyo Dawn Labs plug-ins equally, Maybe even more so than I do patch in a selection of very decent outboard equalizer options that I have to choose from, The same is true for Kotelnikov and compressors as it is that good. Limiter 6 is an amazing modular peak-limiter, clipper and loudness maximizer toolkit, I prefer it over any other plug-in options which I have most of the time. Absolute bargains each one is already and honestly, I can't recommend their plug-ins any more highly FWIW.
There are also other smaller developers whose quality rivals and depending on your needs/wants can better the big names.
Aleksy of Voxengo, Dave Gamble of DMG Audio, Tony Frenzel of Klanghelm, Andy of Cytomic Audio, Sean of ValhallaDSP, Jeroen Breebaart of ToneBoosters, Boz Digital Labs, Kazrog, HoRNet, SKnote.it, DDMF (DocuDead'sMusicFactory), Scott of Stillwell Audio/Schwa and apulSoft are a handful just off of the top of my head of many other smaller but damned great digital audio signal development processing overlords, Yet not the big team brands that are around and develop great stuff that you don't pay through the nose for/don't cost the earth.
Great stuff as always Glenn, Sorry I'm a little bit late to this one, Life is life. Cheers
Maybe some more?
- OrilRiver (free reverb that doesn't sound sh*t)
- SoftAmp PSA (PSA-1 clone!)
- VoS ThrillSeeker VBL (vintage limiter with saturation)
- SGA1566 (very strong saturation/preamp)
- Pushtec 5+1A (pretty good Pultec EQ)
- VoS NastyDLA mkII (powerful delay)
- Stone Voices Ambient Reverb (early version - a very nice ambient reverb)
- Audio Assault HeadCrusher (another saturation)
- literally anything from Ignite Amps (try NadIR for your impulses)
- Distorque Face Bender (fuzzface clone)
Thanks for having us on! I know I'll be snagging a few of these plugins for sure!
The ending of that little piece was sick. Good shit, gentlemen.
thegreatgambeeno thanks! 🤘🏼
TSE 808 - green overdrive pedal, sounds good before any amp sim to get that tight metal sound.
OwnHammer 412 MES-ST V60 - Mesa Boogie impulses with a lot of mics and positions.
Ignite Amps PTEq-X - passive tube EQ emulation, sounds good on any bus.
Softube Saturation Knob - love it on heavy vocals.
MT Power Drum Kit - acoustic drum kit, if you are a bedroom guitar player (just like me) and unable to record real drums, but want your demos get done.
Nice job, Glenn -- and you found some that I don't have yet. Perfect!
Going to try these out. Thanks for the list Glen
What a great video. Great list. Ill be getting a few for sure.
Thank you so much for this! Your channel has always been a huge help and I really appreciate what you do.
Who is the guitar player in this video? Is that John Souki?
Yes!
I thought it was, but that big mop of his was covering his face too much for me to be sure! He’s a good friend of mine. I’ve known him since he was a teenager and he used to come into the GC in Indianapolis on the weekends when I was a manager there. He’d grab a guitar and plug it into something, and then all of the other customers would gather around him to watch him. He’s a really special musician and I’m proud of him for all of the success he’s had in his career thus far.
Robert's Guitar Dungeon thanks for the very kind words brother!
John Souki you know you get nothing but love from me, brother!
This dude had a great solo on the song
I'm just starting learning recording and mixing so I can be prepared for future plans and your channel is a diamond Glenn! This video came in clutch as well! Thanks so much!
Don't know if I'm going to renew my Slate subscription after this... Great vid, Glenn!!
Thanks for sharing I enjoy very much your reviews. Have you tried the new audiotechnica dynamics mics on drums?? Atm230?
What are your thoughts on the Melda plugins? Personally, I love 'em, especially with my cochlear implant as they are very "visual" so I can fly by instruments!
Hey Glenn, thx so much for these tips and the links, downloading them now and installing into Cakewalk. Btw, what's your opinion about the Cakewalk DAW? Thanks again!
I can't seem to install the vst correctly..I'm opening the user plug ins and pasting the vst there but when I try to apply it to the track it doesn't show up on the fx list..I just see the rea/ cockos vsts? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
This was ridiculously helpful. A big thanks to you, yet again!
Thanks Glen! Big help! ...Yet I'm having a big problem getting Ten-Q to work. When I try to add the effect in Reaper it says "information not supported". I noticed in the read me document it says 32 bit only but usable on 64 bit with wrappers. I need to be able to search, cut and boost frequencies. Is there a way to get this to work or any other alternatives?
My fav plugin of all times Lancaster pulse
Thank you so much Glenn 🤘🏻
TSE is $70 now. Great vid, I installed most of the plugins
I recently shifted to cakewalk, great daw btw, it has loads of built in plugins and you don't need anything extra actually to start with the basics.
But I needed a good compressor for a drum track, wasn't getting the sound. Tried Kotelnikov, I mean if you're trying to find an unbiased review you won't find it, you either have og fans of it, or people who don't know it. It's that awesome.
It gives the drum the required body( you know what I mean), and you can makeup the lost gain, them a bit of eq and space and you're done.
dude. I dunno how I got here, but it was a worm hole. loved it.
As luck would have it, I found TSE BOD yesterday, and it's the best bass recording I've ever gotten.
You nailed it Glenn, that TDR Kotelnikov compressor is a kick-ass VST! Also I would mention their SlickEQ which is also a phenomenal plugin. I especially love M/S mode with that EQ because of wideness and clarity. In the same league is Variety of Sound's Baxter Mastering EQ, which sounds absolutely amazing. Again, especially if you use it in M/S mode. Great mastering VST is Vladislav Goncharov's Limiter No6, with which you can achieve really organically subtle wider sound by engaging High Freq Limiter. We live in such a fantastic time where you can have such a great tools for free. Pro audio golden age. Greeting from Serbia.
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Can’t speak highly enough of the BOD, been using it everywhere for about 18 months, and my mate started using it and instantly got a bass tone he liked having never managed to get bass how he wanted it
I discovered the TSE X50 just last week and it's easily my favourite amp sim VST. Better than the other free plugins and also better than any of the paid ones I've used as well.
I only listen to certain metal bands I have to say coming from another completely opposite genre.... your Always Spot on... Your knowledgeable.. I respect that...Keep up the good work...
Have you tried Gallien-Kruger's free bass amp sim? Thoughts? I just picked it up the other day and it is absolutely the most bone-crushing bass tone from a free plugin I've ever heard. Not I play much bass, but imo it's better than an off-brand sans amp plugin!
Great 👍 video as usual Glen! Thanks so much for telling us about these! 😀🥁🎸🎶
Np Matt!
Tse x30, through the ignite pta power amp sim using kt88 tubes into ownhammer engl impulses is sick sounding.....another honorable mention, especially for guitars is the tdr nova eq, u can eq and compress bands simultaneously....so instead of cutting certain bothersome frequencies, I just limit them, but ya I m finding that I m using a lot of the free and less expensive ones more than my waves and slate...but there some here i ain’t heard of, so ur info sharing services r always greatly appreciated 🙂
I've been using Loudmax for years now. It's so simple and effective that even people outisde of mixing could understand it. Other than that and the IR Loader these are all new to me!
Hair is lookin extra godlike today Glenn
Thanks for making this video!
Is there anywhere we can go to get the multitracks for the song used in this? I have been in a mood to just play around with mixing stuff but don't know where to get stuff to mix!
Great vid! I'm curious as to what the advantage is to these companies by giving their plug ins away free, probably sounds like a dumb question but how do they make money? By impressing you enough to purchase their other products?
All awesome suggestions thanks. More free plugin demos plz.
Great list dude! 🤘
REALLY dig when you A->B the plugins man! 👍
I notice you're using a lot of modeling amps. I recently plowed a months wages into a Mark V and I love the tones I'm getting. I'm really looking forward to recording a Djent Blues project later this summer. Did I just waste a shit ton of money, or are good high gain tube amps still a thing? Thanks for your channel, I've learned tons! And fuck you Glen ... in the face!
Not getting rid of my amps anytime soon
Hey Glenn, I don't play metal, more rock like AC/DC and Motley and was wondering how I tell if my pickups are bad or not. My guitar is cheap and I want to mod it but I don't see the need to change my pickups because they sound fine to me but they are probably 'cheap and bad' pickups. What advice do you have for me to find this out?
You have to decide what your looking for tone wise . If what you got ain't broke don't fix it brother.
Yeahhh! TSE Audio! Even though I stopped using plugins for guitar sounds years ago, I remember these being scary legit sounding. Like super useful and fast to dial in.
I just want to say that I love mixing with Audio Assault plugins. I’ve been holding to a limitation of using nothing but theirs for no particular reason, and it works out very well.
They’re not free, but they’re cheap.
They go on sale for like $5 a piece pretty often. Borderline free.
2:41 I always use the Le456 guitar amp VST on my bass tracks. It is a guitar amp sim, but it does make bass sound really good as well.
Thought I was the only one :)
Me as well!
Do you use guitar cab IR or just pure amp?
@@pacman_pol_pl_polska Just pure amp cause I'm lazy, but I wouldn't be against using a cab IR.
i'll have to try that! i definitely have the le456 but haven't played around with it much.
Hello Glenn, how about a video about best metal productions, mix master, your favourits or so. My favourit is Priest live because it is not falling apart when playing it louder as hell. There is the magic happen when it keeps stable with loudness overkill.
Wow that channel strip looks dope
Glad I found this video I am new to recording and DAW's. I use Cakewalk and want to have good mixing plugins. Nothing against what comes with Cakewalk.
Hey Glenn. What do you hold as high standards of recording examples of metal albums