#3. Blue Cat Series
#2. Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series
#1. Variety Of Sound Suite x10!!
 
The "BootEQ" and the "Epic-verb" are stellar all by them selves. These are heads and shoulders above the current crop of free vst's that its amazing they are still free. The Epic Verb side by side with the UA/EMT Plate can produce astonishingly similar results considering the price difference.
 
Its the only free vst that I still use in daily production. The BootEQ is also a unique vintage color that is killer on vocals and a drum buss. All three all a good bit of programing and useful but considering Sonar now has a great set of tools included, you end up using less of them yet the Variety Of Sound stuff is still unique and powerful enough to still be viable alongside Sonar's tool set. The only drawback is they run at 32 bit so they will wrapped. But even under those conditions, they are still a completely useful daily tool.
http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/vst-effects/

Toneboosters would probably win the prize in the best cheap vsts catagory. IMHO

* Free Blue Cat Audio FX Plug-in Pack - http://www.digifreq.com/d.ifreq/download.asp?ID=83
* Free Groove Monkee 300 MIDI Drum Loop Collection - http://www.digifreq.com/d..req/download.asp?ID=100
* Free Ohm Force Frohmage Filter FX Plug-in - http://www.digifreq.com/d..req/download.asp?ID=122

Scott

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Eddie TX

chuckebaby

but theres some pretty good stuff out there, in a later project at some point id like to try and record a whole demo using just freeware.

http://www.groove3.com/str/Mixing-with-FREE-Plug-Ins.html
 
Ironically, the video is NOT free. 
 
Cheers,
Eddie

 

I have no clue what your talking about.

I think we buried Bansaw.

MrDonald is a cool Leslie effect. Kjaerhus Classic Chorus is great! Nomad Sweeper, Phaser, Tremolo are also nice.

Tal Noisemaker- great analogue style synth. 

>scook
>I think we buried Bansaw. 

I've already donwloaded a good number of these and will plug them in and try them out.  Thanks guys.     The Rapture lead for $20 really interests me.

He's back, good to hear from you. Yeah, the Rapture deal is a good one probably not going to get any cheaper.

chuckebaby

Eddie TX

chuckebaby

but theres some pretty good stuff out there, in a later project at some point id like to try and record a whole demo using just freeware.

http://www.groove3.com/str/Mixing-with-FREE-Plug-Ins.html
 
Ironically, the video is NOT free. 
 
Cheers,
Eddie

 

I have no clue what your talking about.

Oh, sorry, well, um, you were talking about doing a project using only free plugins, so I thought I'd mention a Groove3 video that does exactly that, and I thought it was funny that the video itself wasn't free, and ... um ... er ... hmm ... HEY LOOK, AN OSTRICH!  (Eddie runs away.) 
 
Cheers,
Eddie