Any Free Plugs For Mac Better Than Logic's?

[Fluency]

I'm asking b/c I have the Musicians 2 Bundle & the Deesser from Waves, but don't have $200 (ridiculous) right now just to make them compatible w/ Leopard. Every time I listen to tracks I mixed/mastered w/ Waves though, in comparison to basic Logic plugs, I wanna' bang my head through the wall.

I know that a lot of people praise Logic's compressor, but I think that the Renaissance Compressor worked better w/ my vocals - the Waves deesser sounds like it's leagues above Logic's too.

So, being that I don't want to bend over for Waves, are there any free plugs compatible w/ Leo that sound better than Logic's (preferably compressors, maximizers, and/or deessers)?

Appreciated.

[cbc459]

In my opinion you won't find anything for free that can compare with Waves plug-ins. I think you'd rather stick with the Logic compressor if you have to rather than go for something free. It can be pretty versatile. The opto setting in particular can add a lot of coloration to your sound. You might need to put the threshold much lower and the ratio higher than on the other compressor's types, but if you like the sound of RComp you'll probably like this too.

[macleodgrant]

what about the flux stuff, that's great quality and there's also the Yong W1 which is an L1 clone and there are loads more but there are sufficient threads about this on gearslutz

[JPeters86]

Try out the Airwindows plugins as well. Not free, but very cheap and very good. But, since you own the Waves things, I think you might just want to pay up those 200 bucks when you have them. The WUP sucks indeed, but you don't have a choice. Otherwise it's like you wasted your money on those plugs, since you can't use 'em anymore.

[matt thomas]

digital fishphone compressors are good and free

massey tape head is good and free

king dubby is good and free

flux bitter sweet is good and free

I can't say if any of these are "better" than logic, but they are good.

FWIW i have heard very respectable mixes done with only logics plugs.

narco

[dhiltonlittle]

massey pluggins are all awesome including the compressor.

[Fluency]

Originally Posted by narco

digital fishphone compressors are good and free

massey tape head is good and free

king dubby is good and free

flux bitter sweet is good and free

I can't say if any of these are "better" than logic, but they are good.

FWIW i have heard very respectable mixes done with only logics plugs.

narco

Yea, my mixes using solely Logic plugs aren't bad by any means, but they just pale in comparison to the ones that I've done w/ Waves. I'm using an SM7B, Rane MS1b (which is actually very good, especially when considering its price), & I'm saving up for an Apogee Duet, but right now my interface is horrible... so grade-A plugs are my best friend.

Thanks for the input.

[chrisj]

Originally Posted by JPeters86

Try out the Airwindows plugins as well. Not free, but very cheap and very good.

Thanks- but you know, there are some people who like my 'Pressure' compressor plugin best of any of my compressors, and that one IS free.

I have a DeEss but it won't work for everybody, I wrote it for me because I needed something more transparent than Spitfish. It's sort of hardcore invisible de-essing for condenser miced tracks. But if you need to target esses that aren't just blowing away 20K you could look into Spitfish and see if it runs on your setup- that's a good, flexible plug.

I had to peek into this thread if it was about 'any free plugs for logic?'. Yes indeed- I have twenty-seven freebies out, if you count all the Amps plugs seperately. Some of the freebies are just silly, or very peculiar, but quite a few of them are totally solid basic plugin functionality written to sound better than what I could get in Logic. And again, Pressure has some fans, put it that way.

Freebies are free. Enjoy.

[u b k]

Originally Posted by chrisj

Thanks- but you know, there are some people who like my 'Pressure' compressor plugin best of any of my compressors, and that one IS free.

pressure rocks balls, it's more interesting and usable to me than a lot of expensive hardware.

as a total aside, once i started working with stellar conversion at 88.2, the differences between plugins diminished greatly.


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[SyncSailor]

i really like the digital fishphones gate... Floorfish. but these plugs are ppc only. not intel.

[Rev. Robb]

Originally Posted by dhiltonlittle

massey pluggins are all awesome including the compressor.

The original post asked about plugins for Logic. Are Massey plugins AU compatible now?

[yumdrum]

Not sure if they're any better, but here is an interesting link with MANY free plugs. Some of which have been mentioned. Have fun.


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[yumdrum]

Originally Posted by Rev. Robb

The original post asked about plugins for Logic. Are Massey plugins AU compatible now?

So far only the Tapehead. Under AU without the fancy GUI, but it sounds great!