Band Practice
Price: Free
A 24-band EQ with ten filter shapes and three phase modes.
Equalization
Windows VST3 · Mac VST3 / AU
Free Pickings
Free EQ, modulation and delay plug-ins
A free plug-in is only useful if it earns a place in a real session. These four cover broad tone shaping, two classic modulation voices and a delay that can become a reverb. They are not demo versions and they do not expire.
Free with a Fat Berry account. Each plug-in has its own perpetual licence; no card is needed.
4 plug-ins
In this group
Every product below is active, free and available as its own download.
Taser
Price: Free
A phaser with JFET, OTA and Opto circuits and 4, 6 or 8 stages.
Modulation
Windows VST3 · Mac VST3 / AU
Tremble
Price: Free
A tremolo with Bias, Opto and Harmonic circuits, in mono, stereo or pan.
Modulation
Windows VST3 · Mac VST3 / AU
Copy The Dog
Price: Free
A delay with 22 modes that grows from a simple echo into a space.
Delay
Windows VST3 · Mac VST3 / AU
How to choose
Pick by the job, then compare
These are different tools, not 4 versions of one.
- Broad shaping first
- Band Practice gives 24 bands with ten shapes per band and three phase modes: Zero Latency, Natural Phase and Linear Phase. Use it where the correction is broad and the phase behaviour matters, such as a bus or a full mix.
- Two modulation voices, not one
- Taser is a phaser with JFET, OTA or Opto circuits and 4, 6 or 8 stages. Tremble is a tremolo with Bias, Opto or Harmonic circuits and mono, stereo or auto-pan operation. They are different effects; pick by the movement you want, not by the name of the circuit.
- One delay that covers two jobs
- Copy The Dog has 22 modes on one faceplate, covering delay in milliseconds or tempo sync, Warp, Feedback and a reverb side. It is the free choice when a part needs an echo that can turn into a space without a second plug-in.
Listening check
Bypass and unbypass at the same perceived loudness. If the mix only sounds better because it is louder, the setting has not been decided yet.
Also free