Plugins: what's good?

toescantalk

I'm looking around for decent plugins that do fancy guitar type effects. Probably delay, tremolo and reverb. Sound Toys stuff looks good.

Anyone using anything they'd recommend?

Ta.

Fazer

for reverb valhalla is king: http://valhalladsp.com/
also look at melda, does a great freeware bundle that will cover everything: http://www.meldaproduction.com/

toescantalk

Ooo like the look of the paid for tremolo from melda. Free trial too. Playtime soon then.... Thanks!

Fretwired

Native Instruments Guitar Rig Player is FREE - one amp, 17 cabinets, 17 effects and 50 presets.

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/guitar-rig-5-player/

Buy a copy of Computer Music and you get loads of free instruments and plugins:

GrindMacine CM - five amps, 10 cabs, EQ, Djentbox
Kuassa drive
Rob Papen distortion
LiquidSonics reverb
Acorn Digital reverb
Plus loads of other stuff and an excellent drum machine in this months edition.

Free delay plugins .. http://www.voxengo.com/group/delay-plugins/

Free chorus .. http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/tal-chorus-lx

Heartfeltdawn

The Melda bundle is very good. Tons to play with there. Magnus Jonsson's Ambience is a rather good free reverb, Blue Cat audio for good free chorus. 

monquixote

Scufham is cool. 

Primarily an amp sim, but has some nice mod/verb/delay

dogload

Try the Kjaerhus Classic plugins- they're wuite old but they do some good noises and are rocessor-friendly.

There's a link on HERE. Also a link to SIR reverb which is cool too.

toescantalk

Valhalla does reverb rather well. That's sorted.

Delay I'm leaning towards a Sound Toys Echo Boy purchase. But the ilok usb pen stuff is a pain. Any ideas for a fancy delay plugin suitable for guitarness?

Wasn't happy with the tremolo above though I might try that again. I want a seek trem / goatkeeper / super pulsar in a plugin. Ho hum...

lasermonkey

The Soundtoys stuff is excellent. I bought the Native Effects package and really couldn't be happier with it. EchoBoy is fantastic! I use Tremolator a lot too. And Phase Mistress! They are about to update to version 5, which I believe will be iLok-free. I can't say I have found the iLok to be any trouble.

Having tried the demo versions of the Valhalla reverbs, I can heartily recommend them. I haven't heard much that compares favourably to the older Lexicon hardware units, but the Valhalla reverbs have the almost three-dimensional depth of the expensive Lexicons and at $50 a pop, it would be rude not to. Ubermod is great too, if you like complex, multi-tapped delays with modulation.

JAYJO

Fretwired said:

Native Instruments Guitar Rig Player is FREE - one amp, 17 cabinets, 17 effects and 50 presets.

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/guitar-rig-5-player/

Buy a copy of Computer Music and you get loads of free instruments and plugins:

GrindMacine CM - five amps, 10 cabs, EQ, Djentbox
Kuassa drive
Rob Papen distortion
LiquidSonics reverb
Acorn Digital reverb
Plus loads of other stuff and an excellent drum machine in this months edition.

Free delay plugins .. http://www.voxengo.com/group/delay-plugins/

Free chorus .. http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/tal-chorus-lx

Is this a stand alone or does it go into a Daw. I missed this  ie Gig rig player.  cheers.

Heartfeltdawn

toescantalk said:

Valhalla does reverb rather well. That's sorted.

Delay I'm leaning towards a Sound Toys Echo Boy purchase. But the ilok usb pen stuff is a pain. Any ideas for a fancy delay plugin suitable for guitarness?

Wasn't happy with the tremolo above though I might try that again. I want a seek trem / goatkeeper / super pulsar in a plugin. Ho hum...

Decent cheap delay: tkDelay by Trikit at 29 Euros. I bought this when it was in beta for half the price and it's worth more. I especially like the modulation on it. The Rop Papen delay is well worth picking up too. 

Step sequencer trem: Melda's MVibrato plugin has the option to use a step sequencer to control the modulation. It's not hypereasy to use like a Zvex pedal but it is very powerful and it's free. You can also draw your own waveform shapes and use a preexisting audio file to act as the control waveform. It's absurdly powerful for a free plug. 

Forum tip: join KVR. The forum is good and the classifieds section is great. It's the best place to buy and sell plugins secondhand that I've found.