Plugin Boutique’s Mixing & Mastering Bundle is a collection of three plugins that will make your mixing life easier at no cost. The bundle is available to download for free, but only for a very limited time.
If you’re wondering how limited it is, Plugin Boutique put the words “extremely limited time” in a bold font, so you know it’s serious!
Joking aside, I don’t think this deal will be active for long at all, so jump on it while you can.
The Mixing Bundle includes the following plugins:
- Universal Audio’s Teletronix LA-2A Tube Compressor
- Pulsar Audio’s W495 EQ
- Plugin Boutique’s StereoSavage 2 Elements
The Teletronix LA-2A is available for free directly from Universal Audio, too, but if you grab it from Plugin Boutique, you can upgrade to the LA-2A Leveller Collection for the special crossgrade price of £29.
Pulsar Audio’s W459 EQ emulates the Neumann W459 EQ, a favorite of many studios over the last five decades.
Although the original W459 EQ isn’t quite the powerhouse it was back when vinyl was still king, it remains wildly popular thanks to its reputation as one of the most musical equalizers for mixing and mastering.
Pulsar Audio’s three-band W459 EQ offers wide equalization curves that mimic the original hardware with the added flexibility of a plugin, with features like an on-screen curve editor, auto-gain, and Mid/Side selection per band.
Whether you want to add presence, enhance the character of a single track, or balance an entire mix, the W459 EQ plugin brings that 70s sheen without leaving much of a dent in your CPU.
StereoSavage 2 Elements is a one-stop stereo imaging plugin with some clever features.
The interface implements a goniometer, phase correlation meter, and input/output levels.
This simple plugin has just three controls: Pam, Width, and Rotation. The Rotation control is maybe the most interesting because it pans the centre signal while leaving the sides in place, giving a different way to add movement to a track.
It’s awesome that Plugin Boutique has bundled these plugins together as a freebie; just remember to act fast; the offer won’t be available for long.
LA-2A Tube Compressor requires a free iLok account (physical dongle not required) and is compatible with macOS 10.15 -13 and Windows 10/11(64-bit only).
W459 EQ is available in AU, VST3, and AAX formats for macOS (10.9 upwards) and Windows (7-10).
StereoSavage 2 is available in AU, VST, and AAX formats for macOS (10.11 upwards) and Windows (8 upwards).
Don’t forget that Sonible’s Pure: Limit is also free with any purchase at Plugin Boutique during October 2023.
Download: Free Mixing & Mastering Bundle (FREE for a very limited time!)
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15 Comments
Arseniy
onif this EQ gives some good saturation, that could be interesting.
Arseniy
onIt has annoying iLok BTW
Kurgle
onIt’s a nice freebie pack for sure, but two of the plugins need to have the abominable iLok account, I have the said account but is a pain to use, meaning these, like the now free UAD La compressor, will stay only in my account and not on my computer!
Wing Yee
onThanks!
Olaf Tryggvasson
onthank you for the heads up!
Dirk
oniloke and the download “eko-systems” are a ******-up Money-System.
But the Pulsar Audio’s W495 EQ and the LA-2A are nice and I have ilok to use some older plugs (Exclibur, PhonixVerb) and the Vienna Symphonic Library! I love my Exponential Audio Reverbs! So I need to use ilok.
Fred
onNightmare – Didn’t try the two that need ilok (I have it installed, but as other have said it’s a pain), but thought I’d give the W459 a go.
But …… WARNING WARNING WARNING :-
Part way through the installation of W459 it says I need to download and install some other licence manage !!! FFS (sadly I didn’t take note of the name of it).
Chose no, and then it says I need to reboot to complete the install.
Already lost interest, so I uninstalled it.
Today (next boot up) my PC won’t start, main C: drive corrupt !
Now that I remember, the last time I tried something via Plugin Boutique I had all sort of problems. I should have learned !
I now have a big notice on my wall that says “NEVER EVER USE Plugin Boutique !!”
OK I understand that plugin developers want to protect their software, BUT …… any developer that DOES NOT tell you of the need to install a licence manager UNTIL part way through the installation is NOT to be trusted.
Oh, and from previous experience, once they have your email address, Plugin Boutique will bombard you with junk promo emails.
mx
onplugin boutique can not be responsible for installers of other developers, and it is unlikely that an plugin installer of pulsar is responsible for booting problems of your computer.
if you read the requirements and instruction before installation you could know it all in advance – they told you upfront, you just ignored the information obviously…
have you ever seen the little “unsubscribe”-button at the bottom of emails?
ffs…
Fred
on” they told you upfront, you just ignored the information obviously…”
NO !! ….. (nice condesending tone BTW guys ! ) …..
The point I was making is that regarding the “W459 EQ” it DID NOT say anything about a licence manager requirement (as the other two plugins indeed do).
So the FIRST time it mentioned it was part way through the installation process, and when you select “cancel” (as I don’t want yet another licence manager on my system) it THEN asks you to “reboot to complete the installation” I then uninstalled the plugin, but it clearly left a registry entry that it planned to process at the next boot up, which windows now sees as a corrupt entry. So YES it did cause my boot problem !
I am now in touch with Pulsar support directly to identify what registry entries it made, so I can delete them, and hopefully fix my boot problem.
Regarding the “unsubscribe” button, I have indeed previously ‘unsubscribed’ BUT in order to try any new plugin via Plugin Boutique, you HAVE to subscribe again !
But don’t worry, I will avoid in future – Thanks !
……”ffs”.
Alex Y
onCan’t find it anymore. Must’ve gotten pulled this AM? Or am I not seeing it? Thx all.
djsegwon kithebeats
onSearch them out they’re there. Stereo Savage is no longer free on my end
obo
onanyone who missed this (like me), Pulsar has the EQ free on their site as of now: https://pulsar.audio/w495/. UAD also had the compressor for free recently (article on BPB if I’m not mistaken). Stereo Savage… think you’re out of luck (until next time!). But the other EQ and compressor are really the 2 that I wanted personally.
anonymous
onI GET
Sadly
onIt’s gone.
dave
onCouldn’t find it, so much for that article…….