The 15 Best FREE Audio Plugins Ever Made! [2024 Update]

Most Free Plugins Suck. Here are the one’s that don’t! I’ve scoured the interwebs and downloaded hundreds of free plugins to try to find the ones that actually sound good! Stop wasting your time with the hope of sounding better, download and use the ones that actually matter!

What plugin is your favorite? Let me know in the comments below!
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📖 Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Plugin 1
01:23 - Plugin 2
01:56 - Plugin 3
02:27 - Plugin 4
03:06 - Plugin 5
03:53 - Plugin 6
04:22 - Plugin 7
04:49 - Plugin 8
05:18 - Plugin 9
06:03 - Plugin 10
06:32 - Honorable Mentions
06:57 - Honorable Mention 1
07:08 - Honorable Mention 2
07:22 - Honorable Mention 3
07:48 - My Favorite Free Plugin 1
08:29 - My Favorite Free Plugin 2
09:19 - My Favorite Free Plugin of All Time
10:24 - More Plugins to Watch

[krakapoww]

First YouTuber to showcase channe V. Always on my drum bus.

[scareyme]

Just got the BBC Orchestra. If you only get one, put this at the top of your list. Soo good this one. Nice vid.👍

[revolt]

Sorry but how can Melda Plugins MFree bundle not make this list?

[justcomment]

Thanks, i didn't know about plugin8

[KOSMIKFEADRECORDS]

NICE video. have tried these and use some alot all the time. Not all were that great as my daw already has Love Filter but very nice to get your alternative experience and viewpoint!

Can i add some more killer plugs for the readers of comments that ive been returning to over and over?

Okay thanks here goes.

1. Tal reverb 4. And you mentioned supermassive already. Unmetallic and lush.
2. Tal noisemaker. True analog sound and very flexible.
3. Surge XT. Sound design dream like vital but far more versatile and dare i say "realistic". Have made plenty songs using ONLY Surge! (and my presets come included! hah)
4. Pressure, Pop, Point, tape, and Distortion by Airwindows. Minimal. Super CPU effecient. Golden sound. Also love analog obsession. These two guys have you covered for everything analog processing.
5. Nasty Delay, for a dusty nostalgic and warm cinematic delay. (also love deelay that you mentioned)
6. Lens by auburn sounds is stupid good mastering tool just try it subtely to smooth over and polish tracks, eat up resonant peaks and apply that warm tilt eq. but the other auburn sounds plugins are just as great.
7. Limiter no6. Classic fat and versatile sound that when maxed out with minimal artefacts usually have my tracks sitting at that golden -8db full on loud.
8. Synth 1 and the 1000s of presets that you can get in a bundle made by some very capable sound designers. Hard to outdate this one. ULTRA versatile and ULTRA classic tones. Dirty.... but classic. Secretly waiting for someone to reverse engineer and update it... ah... dreams.

[ErixSamson]

I use all of them but Deelay and Planflow, thanks for the discovery!

[DJ_Damo_]

Thanks Mattie this vid is of high quality, your presentation is top notch ! Already have a few of these Vital + OTT being my faves. Gunna deffo give that pan flo a go ..Liked an subsribed .. Good work man !

[Griuofficial]

Thanks for the video, some of the great plugins are here

[ltalchile]

I'll test the ott in my mastering chain, thanks and regards from Chile Bro ✌🏽😁🌎👑🏆🇨🇱

[joemiglionico]

I downloaded neural amp modeler, but I can't find the list you showed of available amp models, and it doesn't come with any. Where is that page? I can't find a link to it on their website.

[illeagle]

Steinbergs Xtrene is free now 7/7/24. pretty dope.

[coma-fx]

woah wait i use ableton, which plugin is OTT? thank you for the information btw i do appreciate it!

[nickhuang]

this video is really really informative！useful！ thumbs up！and follow！

[baymax]

Flux mini 2 is most of the time out of sync when playing back first time and also sometimes after rendering, Use your stock volume shaper instead

[Juoskustu]

i just dont get it. why is all plugins so hard to get downloaded. i try to download vaults and it seems impossible.. getting the feeling they dont want us to use it :D

[drinkinslim]

I've noticed that North Americans like to change the emphasis of words, like DEElay. Other examples include: DIScord instead of DisCORD, INsurance, instead of inSURance. Americans also call me a DICKhead, rather than... no, wait... that one's correct. 😂Americans also call hamburgers "sandwiches" - *especially* if they're chicken burgers. Strangely, Burger King calls their burgers... sandwiches. So they don't have a burger menu, they have a sandwich menu. Wow, that was completely off topic. 😅

[k]

lol i didn't know valhalla supermassive was free

[d.l.hutson]

I'm your 911 liked on this video . Thanks for the 411.

[baymax]

It's not slate audio, It's Slate Digital

[SpaceGhostPercc]

No thanks. Nobody tells me what to do or how to live my life.