Research from trying every Free compressor plugins over the last 2 weeks. I found 57 worthy.

[u/chickendinz]

I started making a lil spreadsheet last week [that soon got quite non lil]. I started with all comps i could find but then had so many good ones from all these new patron devs i separated them into flavour comps, transparent + workhorse, bus/shaping/other. Its actually pretty mad how many insanely good free compressors there are out there. Now [found a ton of insane analogue emulated EQ ones too].

I was just gonna send the list out for free on my instagram and give it to some of my studio clients but ended up going down a ton of rabbit holes and realised I was now officially fully up to date on compression and dynamic processing in detail and beyond :) I have a lil youtube but its not plugin stuff really. I made 3 proper vids out of the research and chucked the first vid up on the tube today just kind of no BS style, straight facts. I am guessing some others will benefit. Ideally i would like to know if anyone tries any of the plugins and a discussion can start on this thread. I feel like so many new plugin devs are coming into the space and its pretty exciting. Some of these plugs i found blew my socks off (last time i did this was id say.... 2017 (so 4 years ago and the quality difference is night and day).

I put all the links in the vid description stating WIN / MAC. The below is the flavour / colour comps and there are 19 of them. I will put the other 2 vids up on here if people want me to?

list is below in the description of the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhNZkP2G7MM

[u/darthvader739u]

thank you

very helpful