Using free plug-ins

[BobSacamano]

Since my budget is limited, and I'm not always bowled over by the processing in AA 1.5, I'm resorting to free plug-ins..one of the ones I like is Blockfish...anyone else got any free VST plug-in suggestions?

 

[JohnQuincy]

Check out the ones from this guy:

http://www.jeroenbreebaart.com/audio_vst.htm

I use Broadcast a lot...especially the "Smooth" setting.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

BobSacamano: I tracked down the W-1 that you posted about recently and I am impressed! I some rather "classic straight voice" stuff and edit church recordings. I played with all the plug-ins that come with AA2 and some of them are beyond my ability to get the multitude of settings right. The W-1 has only two that reduces the number of possible permutations considerable.

Many of the plug in are market driven in that rock music begs for a lot of strained and distorted sound. Not good for my purposes. What really impresses me about W-1 is that as long as you keep the settings within reason, there is NO audible distortion (at least to my leathery ears) and I set up a script where I run the plug in against a voice recording multiple times with a different release time on each iteration and the sound remains rather pristine.

I'm going to download the one you mentioned in this thread and see if it is useful in handling compression over a longer time setting. When a pastor drops his voice level a bit and turns his/her head away from the mic for a phrase, it can get tedious hand-editing each of those aberrations in level.