Top 10 Free Alternatives to Waves Plugins I Use Professionally

jebus I said "fantastic" a lot in this vid didn't I 🤣🤣

what daw are you using?

Analog Obsession

I guess WAVES is happy with your video !!! 👌( no answer needed)

Amazing video. Love that mjuc jr thank you!

I deeply thank you for all this info and I'm entirely grateful, thanks also for making the downloads much easier by including the links 💯 I as of from now is a subscriber

phase 88

Really you deserve all the appreciation thank you✨

You'll never make Dan Worrall money by hawking free plugins old matey.

I am trying to find a vod about the free VSTS that you use. This is one of them but I thought you had one more with synths and other things or am I a mistaken? I know you use vital.

I'm new to all of this, but I realised fairly quickly that my DAW already has great quality processing. However, once I had signed up for even a few paid or free plugins (sale prices only!!), jeez but it's a bombardment of marketing! It all seems very "fashion based" to me... I can't recall how many offers for "vintage tape sound" I've already had, and I don't even know what that is!!

I thought we were all about saying goodbye to that 'nasty' unreliable cassette or vinyl LP. These companies seem to strain every sinew to sell me things that make music sound "vintage".

Next month it'll be some other sound fad they'll be pushing.

Thanks for the informed, knowledgeable videos! :)

the ducking was really distracting to listen to

👍🏾

Analog obsession has free stuff

you are god!

Great video, man. Great to see the pros giving up a bit of knowledge for the community. Much appreciated

not much for Mac users 😞

The only Waves plugin that I think I can't live without is Infected Mushroom Pusher. I have some Infected Mushroom plugins but I don't think you can get Pusher without Waves. I would love to know if you have a suggestion for an alternative? I use it for Mastering mainly.

Some excellent suggestions here, I have most of them in my arsenal and am using some of them on a regular basis.
Re. Waves I had a lot of issues with their FX and 'Central' over the years and thought about ditching the whole mess more than once but then I wouldn't want to miss some of their plugins like the outstanding TG12345 or even the Electric88 (Rhodes) ... oh well ...

Thank you for making this video, Bthelick! I have a handful of Waves plugins I got during free giveaways over the years, but their protection racket put me off- your recommendations are solid all around, especially TAL, TDR, Valhalla and Variety of Sound. An additional delay I'd add is Sixth Sample's Deelay; it's a gem of a plugin 💎And I must say that I really appreciated you saying "hello guys AND gals" in your intro; hearing that made me feel seen. We need more gals in audio, production and DJing. Thank you 🥲

haha "i paid for mine line was golden"
The amount of Broke guys I knew that had the platinum bundle!

Hey Bthelick, have you looked into any of the analogue obsession stuff? Some good free alternatives there for many plugins.

u sound like that British food who travel soviet places..thoughts from toronto...

I don't know who you are. All I can say is your a gift from God!

I'd also like to thank your parents for raising such an awesome human being that you are

I've learned more in just watching two of your videos. Free videos! At that. Then I learned spending months & money for subscriptions that supposedly was going to teach me everything I need to know and even help me get signed to a record label

The information that you give is the information we all need and want to know. Yet I would have to sit through hours of webinars & livestreams and then would have to try and piece it together myself

With you it's all facts and straight to them. There's no beating around the bush or only giving half of the knowledge away and keeping the other half as a secret. You teach it how it is and how it should be taught and I want to thank you very much for that

On top of all that you share your free plug ins with us!

You are an awesome person and the world needs more people like you. Thanks again!

Damn right I'm going to buy you a coffee! I'd like to buy you a coffee every day for the rest of my life if I could 🙏🙏🙏

what is the tool in the background to add those plugins?

great vids mannn!!! 100K subs soon. keep it up.

Como no me voy a suscribir??? Sos Crack

MeldaProduction has a free bundle with 37 high quality plugins!

I would add the free Valhalla plugins to that list, e.g. Supermassive

You may know already but Wider 2 was released recently 👍

thank you

I'm amazed at how many of these I already have (both Waves and Freeware) - my favorite of what you've listed is by far the Dragonfly suite of reverbs. Really flexible with unique characteristics.

Thanks for sharing!;)

Use Russian freeware at your own peril.

i'd recommend the SN03 Tape Recorder by Sender Spike, i use it on every mix in the master channel followed by a soft clipper, a very nice plugin. i'd also recommend the VariMoon by Analog Obsession, good mastering compressor

I have most of these! But I wish u had toned down the bg music considerably, instead of the auto-pumping feature u had - it was driving me into insanity while I was trying to focus on the content! 😖💀

Thank you Sir....👍😎

As an extension: Literally anything TAL, Melda, and TDR are solid for freebies. Insanely good gems within them all. Great vid though, definitely a few of this will be making their way into my projects!!

There's zero need to pay for any plug in if you know what you're doing.

To be fair, we nowadays live in a world where you DAWs stock plugins are usually more than sufficient and the rest can be found as a freebie. This goes for both VST's as VSTi's!

Trying to get free F6 eq and Span master but cant find. Excellent info btw

Also Stereo Tool V3 is pretty useful in some cases

Great video! Now phrase make the same for voxengo which supports war in Ukraine. Especially their Span analyzer

It's so irritating that you list a lot of Variety of Sound plugins, like ffs they have no macOS version lol

Thank you! This video is an absolute God-send! I'm still relatively new to mixing and trying to learn as I go. So, when I see all of these wonderful tutorials that use numerous pricey plugins, I end up at somewhat of a loss. This, however, resolves that issue.

sorry dude, but when you said that the melda autopitch is "fantastic" I had to stop the video...

great video! which free plug in was the alternative to R bass? ive heard this plug in is really hard to emulate

molotok means hammer in russian.

thank you!!!