a free vst plugin for pretty much any situation in this video i'm going to do
a quick review of the tdr molotok vst plugin from tokyo dawn labs and my first impressions
of it are why is this thing free i'm zane welcome to simple green tech and molotok
is a free vst compressor plugin that's supposed to sound good on pretty much everything in the mix
so that's what i'm going to do in this video i'm going to test it out on several sources in a mix
and we'll see how it sounds and if you want to grab this free vst plugin for yourself
i've linked to the tokyo dawn labs website down in the description but right now let's jump in
all right so first off i'm just going to try it on this drum sampler here with an 808 drum track
so you can hear how it evens things out a little bit there and kind of
tames those highs a little bit now let's hear how it sounds with the other instrument here
all right so that helped to blend it in a little bit so it wasn't overpowering the base now we'll
check it out on a quick vocal
and you can hear
how it just brings that vocal forward so let's hear how it sounds with the other instruments
so you can hear how it brings it
forward and it makes it stand out and pop over the other instruments there
i actually really like this on the vocal track so that's how it sounds on a drum buss and on a quick
vocal clip and i'm going to get into some more demos in just a bit but first let's look at the
user interface and the controls and what i really like is that it's very well laid out it has a nice
big vu meter in the center here and that shows the gain reduction but also if you click it can show
you the total gain or you can put it back to gain reduction i like to keep it in gain reduction mode
and then you have your typical controls like your threshold your attack release makeup gain
and ratio plus you also have a knee control down here so you can control the knee a little bit and
then in the center here you have this weird knob and what this does is it switches the compressor
between three modes and it's weighted so you can have a little bit of each mode as you're
turning this and mode one which is all the way to the left this is alpha mode and in alpha mode
the compressor reacts almost immediately and then if we turn this more to the center it starts to go
into beta mode which is the dead center here this is a dual stage release circuit which reduces over
compression artifacts on complex program material and then if you turn it this way to the right
you get into sigma mode and in here the compressor action is delayed and the attack passes through
almost untouched so the tip here is to use alpha and sigma mode on individual tracks and then you
can try the beta mode on buses and groups tdr molotok can be used in mono mode or stereo mode
but it can also be used as a side chain compressor which is pretty cool then over here you even have
the side chain high pass filter and then you also have this other modern touch which is
the dry mix knob so you can adjust how much dry and mixed signal you have here this compressor
actually reminds me a lot of my hardware comp 54 from golden age projects which i really like
on bass guitar but where this compressor has an advantage is it can be run in stereo mode
whereas my hardware one is only mono unless i buy two of them apparently it's not modeled after
any specific hardware but molotok's behavior is definitely inspired by vintage gear so let's test
this free vst out on some other instruments and i'm going to start with bass guitar
and you can hear it just makes the bass guitar sound nicer kind of smooths it out a little bit
and brings some energy to it so let's hear how it sounds in a mix
so that's on bass guitar in a mix sounds pretty good to me in my opinion tdr molotok is a great
free vst plugin that you can find a use for throughout your mix
again why is this thing free and if you want to check out even more free vst
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon