Hey, guys, Will from EDM Tips, I just wanted to do a quick update on the Black Friday plug-in
deals out at the moment and give you my top 16 but it's not just plugins I want to cover today
I want to cover a little bit about equipment the different types of plugins so sound generating
things like synths also the effects plugins as well and samples and presets too because it's
so easy to get just bombarded with all these black friday deals so I want to pick it apart
and I want to actually make suggestions on what I personally use and I want to try and keep this as
impartial as possible. There are way more deals than this in my blog post, which you can check out
below. It's being updated daily to bring to you the most up-to-date black friday deals this year
and as I said I've tried to kind of whittle it down to the things that I actually recommend
now the caveat is none of this means anything there's no point spending money on plugins if
you don't know how to use them so if you do want to learn how to use them you can check
out my masterclass below this track i'm about to play as a new track by one of my students chaco
chaco's been producing for about eight months so our masterclass does really work
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we've got some time sensitive giveaways coming up shortly anyway without further ado let's hop
into these different plugins and stuff that i recommend for black friday first thing i want
to do is a piece of equipment so the guys over at sonarwork sent me this it's the sound id
reference and if you've got a home studio this is a way to help flatten the response of your
monitors and it works for headphones as well so obviously each room has a different shape
and if it's not set up really really well like in a proper professionally setup studio
this basically attenuates your speakers in the correct frequencies to make it more of a flat
response they do have 40 off i don't think it's available quite yet but it will be on
black friday so you can check that out okay let's get into the different plug-ins themselves
so the first i would say is plug-in boutique in general is a great place to see where the latest
deals are so keep checking back that you can also check my blog post and the link to this is below
so let's go through first the sound generating things like samples and synthetics what do i
recommend so if you don't have any third-party synths at all this complete classics collection
from native instruments is a great bargain for getting a bunch of different synths that you can
play with so you've got massive they're a bit older now you've got absinthe you've got fm7
they used to absolutely dominate the market a few years ago they're still really great synths with
loads of good presets and the fact that you can get it for like 100 euros is really really good
deal next we have the v collection by arturia the guys that sent me this keyboard so nice one cheers
guys but this is great if you're producing um like warm rich sounding music like melodic house
or eric bridge style progressive house if you want that kind of 80s classic synth
affectations your music if that's the correct word then this is a really good bundle as well loads
of really high quality modelled sense of absolute classics like moogs and the jupiter and many other
classic synths so that's definitely worth checking out next we have the spire now this is a brilliant
synth if you're producing like big room or trance some fantastic presets the way it's laid out again
very useful an alternative to this would be the anna ii this is a really good synth if you're
producing trance in particular and they've got loads off at the moment too like 100 quid off okay
so let's get on to the actual processing plug-in so the effects that you might use first i'm going
to touch upon waves because these are pretty ubiquitous they've got so many good plug-ins
like this waves tune real-time it's a really good plug-in for just doing auto-tune effect
very simple nice to use they've got early bird bonus discounts i'm sure they'll have more on
black friday itself so you can buy one plug-in you get 30 off 40 off the third 50 off the fourth etc
a few plugins with these that i really recommend this master bus compressor
yeah if you've got the glue compressor in ableton you don't really need this but it does sound a
tiny tiny bit better then you have got the cla vocals plug-in which i really recommend
to my masterclass students i can't see it on this page but it's definitely there somewhere
but they've got loads of really good ones in these packs so you can buy these big bundles as well
let's see for loads of money off and you get like 30 40 different plugins so
check these out definitely worth it if you want a good base of really high quality plugins like
this gold one in particular for 180 instead of 800 you get loads of good plugins in there
check it out make an informed decision next we go on to one of my favorite bundles available
it's the soundtoys plugin bundles these are really high quality creative effects
they've also got mixing effects in there as well in particular just
that this bundle all of them you will end up using them they're really high quality
the decapitate the the decapitator is a really good saturation and distortion unit echo boy is
fantastic for delays you've got the little altar boy which is great for playing with vocal formants
again you know it's a really good value bundle the crystallizer is kind of a unique effect that
is really nice for background ear candy so yeah definitely check this out again
recommend this to my masterclass students and then we've got sonox plugins now these guys
have got loads of really really high quality plugins there's a few i specifically recommend
the inflator is an absolute must like get the oxygen inflator they've got a couple of other well
as i said they're all really high quality their eq is fantastic their compressors are fantastic
but the inflator is the main one i would recommend you've also got the transmod which is a really
good transient shaper only worth getting if you don't have any really high quality
transient shapers already so yeah that's really good now we're on to the ozone 9 advanced bundle
from izotope which is two hundred dollars instead of five hundred dollars at the moment
if you don't have any mastering software if you don't have like the fab filter pro l2 for example
this is all you need to be able to master your music to a really professional standard at home
so i do recommend this to my master class students and if you don't have any mastering software yet
this you cannot go wrong with this one really then we've got the cable guys black friday sale now i
like using lfo tool i like using nikki romero's kickstart now the shaper box does a similar thing
to those except you get a bunch more stuff in it as well so you've got saturation you've
got the volume control you've got panning so i actually do recommend the cable guys shaper box
instead of those alternatives nowadays so that's worth checking out as well and then we go on
to a couple of um yeah a couple of other bits of software over and above what we've already covered
so another auto-tune kind of master in the industry is antares it's a bit more high end
but you get a big reduction so if you're going for a really professional auto tune
antares are the guys to go to the waves one is is fine if you're not needing loads and loads
of loads of control it's good enough quality but do check these out if you want something
really high-end and then we've got finally the salamoni guys who create melodyne now this is
definitely something i recommend to my master class students to anyone who wants real control
over their vocals they've got a big discount i think it's 50 off on black friday at the moment
again and this is different from normal auto tunes because if you see here you can actually go in
and you can move each separate note you can change the modulation it's a very very powerful tool and
it's on um offer at the moment the version i actually recommend to people is the d the
assistant version so it's a bit more expensive the essential version i find a bit too limited
so if you do go for this go for at least the melodyne assistant again you've got a link to
it below there are some more excellent plug-in providers that i'm going to give an honorable
mention because they've got big discounts on at the moment you've got the polyverse guys
really really good creative plugins you can check them out on my last video you've also got baby
audio again creative plugins you could go down the rabbit hole and buy everything i don't recommend
that you know it's it's a matter of preference i've tried to share what i personally use and what
i recommend but that's not to say that these other guys aren't just as good this is just
what i'm using at the moment in my workflow so let's get on to the sounds themselves so samples
presets all of that good stuff if you want to see any more plugins because we've got loads in the
blog post below this video as well and leave a comment what do you want to see next year because
i always will reach out to these guys see what deals i can kind of get for you now in terms of
samples you cannot go wrong with f9 audio now james wiltshire is the guy that runs this he
was one half of the freemasons and he is one of the best producers i've ever known his music has
topped the charts in many genres over many years and he is an absolute master of sound design and
mixing as well he really knows his stuff when it comes to kit so if you want any like classic
sounding warm analog samples from classic drum machines like 909's 808 good quality synths as
well this guy really understands music on a whole other level and he's got a fantastic sail on at
the moment for f9 audio so do definitely check that out we've also got the black octopus guys
again really high quality worth checking out because they've got black friday deals on at the
moment then we've got loot masters again loads of crazy deals you can use my link below yes i will
get an affiliate payment for any sales made but if you don't feel comfortable with that of course you
can just google it and do it independently but loads of different genres in here like drum and
bass house trap yeah really big website with loads of good samples but do listen to the examples of
the sample packs before buying them just to make sure it's kind of the thing you're after
then we've got rocket powered sound again really good quality samples especially if you're making
more of that kind of modern edm sound they also now have their own plugins like thickify is really
good uh i've got yeah i've gotten i think another video with thickify in it but you can get a
reduction on this at the moment as well using the link below it's a bit like sausage fattener but
a bit more control so yeah check that out so yeah now is the time to be buying this stuff if you do
if you've had your eye on any of them but the most important thing as i said is knowing exactly how
to use these things that's why i recommend getting training and if you want more info
on what's going on with ableton what's going on with logic what's going on with reason all these
guys have got deals too click the link to my blog post below this video and check back every
day until you know this friday coming and it's the best thing to do if you want to get the best deals
and they'll keep you going forever okay cool so if you like this video give it a thumbs up don't
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soon as well and yeah until i see you next time thanks for watching cheers and happy producing
you