Molot
This is Russian compressor with an option of oversampling and very good algorithms under the hood. It is very strong, so I would suggest you using it on your basslines or 808 kicks. What I like the most about it is the fact that you have access to a lot of settings and it has that nice "analog" gauge.
Youlean Loudness Meter
It is free loudness meter, it gives you info about LUFS in few ways so you could make it to music industry loudness standards. This plugin is very useful when it comes to mastering because you know how much you have to maximize the track to get the result you want to. Just be careful with it and remember that track have to has some dynamics to sound better. Beginners can make a mistake with making their tracks so loud that there will be some distortions on the low end. To be honest, have had that problem as well in the past, so always trust what you can hear, not to the number you can see. Producer has to learn how to listen to music to know what is going on in the track with things like rhythm or drums.
Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst
Free RTA plugin, must have for every single producer! I use this plugin a lot when it comes to mixing stage to compare low end of my track to professional reference track of my choice. It has a lot of useful settings like threshold, precision, attack and release.
TAL U-NO 62
Really nice emulator of JUNO 60 synthesizer. In my opinion, company behind the plugin knows what they're doing because it sounds really close to analog hardware unit of that synthesizer. Unfortunately, the website says it's discontinued, but it's available for 32 and 64 bits CPUs and it works fine. I was trying to break it with doing stupid things like adding 100 units of it to my project, but nothing really happened.
Loudmax
This is really great limiter/maximizer. In my opinion it is very good and FREE alternative to FabFilter Pro-L. It has only two sliders, so beginners will have no problem with using it, the only thing they can break is setting up threshold slider waaaay too low, but they will be able to hear it because digital distortions sounds really awful.
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Good and interesting article! Just the right amount of information to decide, whether or not to give these VSTs a try. I don´t know Molot nor Loudmax. The others I´ve already known for quite a time and I agree with your opinio about them. I´m really glad to have found somebody, who works with these things (and posts about them), here on Steemit. I´m following you now. Enjoy your day! Rolf from CZ P.S.: I´ll resteem your post, because I think it´s an important one. Rolf
Thank you very much, Rolf :) I'm also gonna upload tutorials and tips videos on D.Tube soon - still working at them. I hope, you will be able to learn something new from me.
Thank's for this post! I've just started to learn how to master my songs and i was looking for a frequency analyst ..so i will check out the blue cat :) ... and i like the russian compressor ...looks so cool oldscool. I will follow you to get more informations about mixing and mastering and VST's :)
Thank you very much :) I'm gonna post videos about mixing and mastering on my D.Tube channel soon!
Gr8 post! I'll be sure to follow.
Thank you very much :)
So much detailed info. Thanks for this great post and I'll be looking forward for your videos too.
Thanks, nice to hear it :)
Seeing some old favorites on here like the Blue Cat and TAL stuff and some new ones I didn't know about. Thanks for sharing!