Product Reviews by KVR Members

My favourite of this developer's free offerings. Aside from looking nice and clean (I'm sure smarter people than me know the actual unit this is based off of), it's incredibly simple to use and very difficult to make it sound bad. I like to use it on guitars and there's minimal pumping etc. even without much tweaking.

A nice gentle compressor that's really easy to use. My only real issue with it is that adding makeup gain causes the meter to bounce around above 0dB, so it's a bit difficult to tell how much gain reduction is actually going on. The interface is clean, easy to read and pretty self-explanatory, so you can get started pretty much straight away. I also recommend the developer's other plugins, especially their RLC79 compressor.

A lush, 80's style rack reverb that doesn't use a lot of CPU. I'm not sure the developers claims on CPU usage are 100% accurate, but it's still very much suitable for live use.

A very subtle phaser effect. The interface is lovely, but there are other free phasers that are much easier to dial in: Blue Cat Phaser, Adam Szabo Phazor and MPhaser.

A really fun, authentic (in sound and operation) tape echo VST. My only real issue is that the self oscillation doesn't go completely wild.

This is probably one of the best sounding Tubescreamer emulations - can get a nice mild overdrive or can turn the gain down and the volume up to tighten up guitar amp plugins. The only issue is that I can't resize the GUI - it's absolutely massive on my laptop, which feels silly for a VST with three controls. I'd give it five stars if the GUI was resizable.

Very clean, subtle 3-band EQ. I particularly like the Russian saturation mode. I've never felt like I needed more features than the free version.

I have no idea why this is rated so low. It's a massive improvement on TAL Reverb II and III in both ease of use and sound quality, especially with the new modulation section.

This is always my final step when mastering songs - brings the levels up and glues everything together without completely crushing your mix, and you can also add some gentle saturation to the highs. I tend to use the simple GUI because it's less visually busy.

A great compressor if you're just learning how compression works, or if you need to quickly throw something on your bass, guitar, etc. Subtle settings also help glue the mix together.