it pretty much goes without saying that in the world of free effect plugins valhalla's
supermassive reigns supreme i won't go into detail here i did a whole
videos worth of gushing about it last year you can check that out up here
but needless to say valhalla should definitely be charging for this thing i cannot believe the
maniacs give it away for free but supermassive isn't the only plugin that valhalla give away
for free frequency echo is designed to make all of your psychedelic dreams
come true this isn't like any other delay plug-in you've ever
used and can make pretty much anything you slap it onto sound drastically different
the mix of its frequency shifter and analog echo simulation combine to create some epic and unique
sonic effects definitely one for all you fiddlers out there it can take
a while to get to grips with how exactly valhalla frequency echo affects your audio
my advice is to pay particular attention to the low-cut and high-cut knobs as adjusting these can
make the difference between a pleasingly chaotic end result and well just chaos
what's more valhalla have updated frequency echo and all of the plugins to run natively
on m1 machines so if you've got an apple silicon machine this will run flawlessly on
hey it's patrick from the garageband guide where we're all about helping you master garageband
and improving your music as you might have gathered in this video i'm covering five excellent
free plugins that you can download today to help take your garageband projects to the next level
if you love playing with big knobs as much as i do
then you'll appreciate free amp a stripped-down version of clevegun's popular plugin
reamp overdrive is the name of the game here and free amp keeps things really simple there's a big
old drive knob here and a mix and output knob as well and that's it you might be thinking
drive well i guess this will sound great on guitars then and you'd be right it does
personally though i like using it to warm up bass and synth tracks as the modeled tape and
tube amp algorithms clevergrind have used here are better suited for that sort of thing in my opinion
developers giving away fantastic plugins like this is enough to give you a case of
the warm and fuzzies inside i feel warm and fuzzy inside every time someone hits the like button on
one of my videos so go ahead punk make my day and show me some thumb love down below
garageband built in pitch correction is well basic would be a charitable way
to describe it if you want more control when tuning your vocals the obvious answer
is to fork out the four hundred dollars that antares want for their autotune plugin right
well hold your horses as melder production have a great pitch correction plugin that
does many of the things that autotune does for free part of melder productions crazy good free
plugin bundle seriously it's amazing how many plugins these guys are giving away for free
besides making the audio and your tracks more in tune m auto pitch also provides creative features
such as format shift and stereo expansion controls you can adjust the correction speed
as well as the depth of the effect and there are even some very usable presets in here too
you need to change
it's fantastic and a solid upgrade over garageband's poultry
single pitch correction slider
have you seen how much genuine clone centaur guitar pedals cost on ebay
no absolutely not definitely no not happening no thank you no thank you sir
no no thankfully the guitar heroes over at membrane audio have managed
to faithfully recreate that sought after transparent overdrive sound associated
with the clone center with their brand new free plug-in clone minotaur
membranes say depending on the settings of the control knobs the clone minotaur transparent
overdrive can act mostly as a clean boost adding mostly volume and minimal colouring to the sound
this can be used to drive the input valve stage of the virtual amplifier to use the characteristic
distortion sound of an overdriven guitar amp and i found that to be mostly true this plugin
definitely sounds best when you're adding it to a pre-existing guitar amp plug-in or garageband's
amp designer and let's be honest here garage bands built in dirtier guitar amp sounds don't sound all
that great really however if you dial back the gain on one of those amp designer presets and add
clone minotaur to the signal chain your tone ends up sounding warmer richer and just much better
for a long time the og izotope vinyl plug-in was one of my very favorites then izotope updated
the plug-in a wee while back and it didn't work in garageband anymore in fact izotope
stopped officially supporting garageband with any of their plugins all together
now however i'm happy to report that even though they're still not officially supported izotope
vinyl and many of izotope's other plugins now work in garageband on m1 machines anyway vinyl
simulates the dust scratches warp and mechanical noise reminiscent of yesteryear and gives you
a whole host of controls to play with most notable are the decade controls you can pick
a year and vinyl will drastically change the sound of your audio to match the selected year's style
you also have a whole host of other controls that simulate the wear and tear of a real vinyl record
vinyl sounds great on things like drums where it can add a subtle grimy edgy feel to your beat
i like it best however on the master track where its effects can be heard across the whole project
this is a great way to add instant lo-fi
charm to a project and can result in some truly unique results
let me know what free effects you can't live without down in
the comments and click right here for even more great free garageband plugins
take care of yourself i'll see you next time bye for now