Chaos Audio is offering seven pedal plugins for free in their Freebie Plugin Bundle, which includes reverb, drive, delay, and EQ.
I don’t know about you, but I find it harder to find guitar pedal-style plugins. There have been lots of amp sims but not too many emulations of pedals.
There are, of course, other plugins you can use in place of guitar pedals, but often, they have too many controls. The beauty of guitar pedals is that (most often), they have a few controls but still tons of versatility.
Let’s take a look at the plugins in this bundle.
Apollo is an “asymmetrical clipping overdrive.” It can produce a variety of tones, from clean boost to crunchy to more distorted lead sounds.
It has 3 simple knobs. Drive controls the amount of breakup, Level is an output gain control, and Tone changes the overall brightness.
Starlight is a shimmer reverb “designed to produce the wonder of staring up at the night sky.” It’s a lush, ambient reverb that’s perfect for pads or atmospheric lead guitars and such.
It sort of reminds me of the Valhalla Shimmer, which is a classic plugin. Starlight can make similar sounds in a more compact UI.
Starlight has 4 controls. Space (reverb size), Lumens (shimmer amount), Tone and Mix
Cassini is a “harmonic reverb”. It can create huge and lush soundscapes with added rich harmonics that create a unique tone.
It has 4 controls: Space (reverb size), Gamma (reverb trail harmonics), Tone, and Mix.
Transit is a “true digital delay with pure digital high-res repeats.” And it is perfect for dialing in the repeats exactly how you want them to.
Transit features 4 knobs, Time (which can be tempo-synced), Repeats (amount of repeats), Tone and Mix.
Booster is what it says on the tin. It’s a clean boost pedal with a single Boost control to drive the front of an amp or anything, really.
Spectrometer is a 6-band EQ with frequencies specifically picked for guitar, so you can dial in your tone efficiently.
The 6 frequencies are: 100Hz, 200Hz, 400Hz, 800Hz, 1.6kHz, and 3.2kHz each +/- 12dB of range.
And finally, Spectrobass is a 7-band bass EQ created by Martin Bartlett. It offers 15dB of cut or boost at 50Hz, 120Hz, 400Hz, 500Hz, 800kHz and 4.5kHz. It also has a 10kHz shelf.
Chaos Audio plugins are available in VST3, AU, and AAX formats for Windows and macOS machines.
Download: Freebie Plugin Bundle (FREE)
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30 Comments
J
onNice one, thanks!
Si
onThanks!
FYI you need to download a 550mb installer that they are hosting on Google Drive…
Rob Boss
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name
onavoid at all cost. another goddamn installer that’s not even finished. register on our website, register in our installer too. press install and watch nothing happen. choose a different install location if you’re smart enough. endure a buggy ui and enjoy some “unknown errors”. you also can’t use these unless you log in. you’d think it’s worth it but the plugins are mediocre at best. delete and promise yourself to never be tempted again.
Ian / Nihil Quest
onThanks for the useful info.
Astrid
onTried it. It sucks.
Ants
onIt is NOT because they are “pedals” that they are more special !!
IT is just an UI, they are very basic plugins and do about the same as a hundred other free plugins.
mx
onui makes a difference.
choice, layout, configuration and presentation of parameters to the user, where the sweet spots are and how far from that half a turn of a knob can go from neutral, but also graphics or visual feedback, and maybe even the feeling of the controls if seen as part of the ui – all this can lead the user to different decisions or invite to try things in certain, maybe different ways.
designing plugins (and actually all that also goes for hardware, maybe even more) is not just about specs…user interfaces are very important!
alex
onWell, that’s the problem plugins – I don’t stare at my pedal board as I play just like no one stares at channel strips and outboard gear while mixing. BTW, free pedal plugins are not that hard to find at all. Nembrini Audio, Audiority, Fazertone, Mercuriall, TSE Audio are all great. There’s also some good pedals included in Amplitube CS and Plugin Alliance offers a bunch of their pedals for free ATM (I don’t know it they will remain free forever, though). VZtec Malibu and DNX Shine reverb are reverb pedals that I really like.
Ants
onNice list Alex. I also recommend Skynet reverb, easy and great long reverb,
Calidreads
onThe new one … Skynet v.0.4 its megatop:-) now with Skynet 2 algorithm inside!
Tan Nguyen
onVapor Keys free karanyisounds. com/product/vapor-keys-pb-redeem/ (Space remove)
Nick
oni can’t find the serial number, when i go to my products it only says “Serial Key: -“
Sean C
onthat offer does not work. it’s old, or something. you can get it on Plugin Boutique for free if you buy something, however
Calidreads
onYess…… me to , when i go to my products it only says Vapor Keys pb “ Serial Key: -“ and no keys inside .
The Sound Of Lex
onYou can grab the Vapor Keys serial for Free if you buy something in Plugin Boutique.
adrian
onjust ask support for a serial key, they will probably give you one. i contacted them and they gave me a serial key no problem.
sam
onthe instructions make no sense. at what point do you get the code to then go buy it on PB?
Calidreads
onLofi Lite free For a Limited Time karanyisounds. com/product/lofi-lite/ (Space remove)
MRugaW
onI have used Starlight for a while now, and it sounds great (It’s a single VST3 Folder download BTW). But I am not sure I can take anymore of these installers. Jeez!
Bob
onYou can still get Starlight with just an email if you want to see if it is worth going through all this fuss for the rest of the bundle.
Look for the old article here or just search for chaos audio starlight and you’ll find the link.
Grannitus
onJa gut, man muss was dafür tun um die 7 Pedale zu nutzen. Ist alles getan hat man 7 sehr gut klingende Pedale in seiner großen Sammlung von Plugins. Das Hall Pedal hatte ich schon doch die anderen 6 Teile finde ich soundmäßig gut. Danke dafür !
Heiner
onHalts Maul
Calidreads
onRuhig Heiner …:-D ….ich verstehe dich , muss man aber in alle ruhe die sache betrachten :-D
hahahaa..:-D
Stefan
onGehn die Argumente aus, geht die Bosheit zum Angriff über.
Calidreads
onLofi Lite free For a Limited Time karanyisounds. com/product/lofi-lite/ (Space remove)
Numanoid
onI am certain I unticked the box about receiving E-mails from Chaos Audio, when checking out yesterday
Yet today, I receive another E-mail from them about joining the “Chaos Audio Discord”
alex
onYeah, I got that one, too. I probably subscribed when I downloaded that first reverb pedal they offered for free a while ago. And then, guess what, when I clicked on the unsubscribe link they automatically logged me into an account I’m pretty sure I’ve never created. Jeez…
Arthur
onA cool free synth is out there! https://www.dawesomemusic.com/plugins/zyklop/ Really worth obtaining!
Daniel
onI should have read the comments! I installed the installer; thought I’d give it a try. You never know what gem you might find. It said to use the code in the email to register. There was no code. Especially not worth my time or theirs contacting support over a freebie bundle, considering the comments.