
Ice9 Automute seems interesting, but I've had it on my Master bus all evening and I can't say whether it has saved me from anything. I have been playing with Waves' TrueVerb, but while it seems to have amazing potential, I think it suffers from a lack of usable presets to show off what it can do and to act as good starting points. I just put the Orilriver Reverb on my latest project and am liking it already. Thank you, Jon! Both of these are relevant to my interests. Ice9 Automute from Cerberus Audio - Stick this at the end of your track signal chain and you'll never have to worry about that occasional surprise blast of sound from ? that can damage your hearing or speakers: This one may be the best free reverb I've ever heard: Orilriver Reverb - Released late last year. JonInc wrote:Not going to include any of the plugins bundled with Mixcraft, since I assume the purpose of this is to share plugins others may not be aware of. New home studio musicians these days have it great and can really build a great plugin library for little money. There is a lot of great free stuff out there including the Tokyo Dawn Labs stuff and of course the Sonimus free EQ plugin. Its a small, unique little synth but for whatever reason I find its presets highly usable and have now for many years.
CERBERUS AUDIO ICE9 AUTOMUTE PRO
The Pro version of Mixcraft includes the Glass Viper synth which I absolutely love.


For that matter, the same company makes a free saturation plugin called the IVGI that's equally as impressive for its intended purposes. Black Metal Keys is a virtual instrument that makes available to you the most common patches used by 90's black metal classic albums, such as Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse, Dimmu Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, Odium's The Sad Realm of the Stars or Limbonic Art's Moon in the Scorpio.

I of course own its paid big brother but the free version is quite capable for most tasks. Klanghelm makes a killer tube compressor called the Mjuc Jr that I would find hard to live without. The distortion is thick and heavy and in many cases preferred to several of the paid alternatives. If you play any kind of hard rock or alternative, the Poulin Legion amp head is an absolute must coupled with of any of the numerous free cabinet simulators out there.
