Product Reviews by KVR Members

Interesting effect. Its not just for voice, you can try it on different things. Ideal for Lo Fi stuff and Hip Hop beats.

It can multiply voice up to 4 times, detune them, bit stereo, some add vibrato and light saturation. Its pretty usable, it has oversampling and it is only missing DAW LFO tempo sync switch and dry/wet knob.

Fleeter is good. It really does what it claims to do and you can tune effect strength. It has UI showing its work. It can be used on guitar, drums and on clicky Hammond keys.

If you are exploring new drum sounds why not to try it.

Self resonating filter. It does not sound very natural compared to real one. It does not introduces much un natural digital sounding effects into stuff. It sounds like broken tube amp.

Its definitely not for standard music, author think its for acid. I am not sure about acid.

Because it sounds like broken guitar tube amp from 60s, why not build on its strength and add cabinet simulator to it and because author is good in making distortion plugins add also some distortion stuff to it and it can become really interesting product. Do we have broken 60s amp simulator VST? we don't.

This one is clear 5 star winner. Its very often listed between the best free compressors and really deserve this position. From technical audio measurement it is better then very good AO compressors and comparable to best paid ones in the industry.

There is more advanced paid version of this plugin - Its worth every penny.

This plugin is better then author another compressor GlowComp and I have not noticed any problems in UI. If you want to use compressor from author, pick this one.

Plugin have 2 compressors and can activate one or two. Gain control is included.

I use analog obsession compressor plugins as reference gold standard = 4 stars.

This one does not sound clean to be match for AO. It distort sound where it should not. Its not that big distortion, lot of plugins sounds much worse. Overall, if you find musical use for it because you like the sound and UI - you might sometimes use it on certain sounds which are distorted already and not very long. On clean long sounds its pretty noticeable.

Download is annoying, while it is free, you need to create account and online authorize plugin on first run.

Writing good compressors is pretty hard. They often introduce unwanted effects to audio, just very few even commercial ones can do work without them. This one has quite a lot of them, they are reduced by oversampling which is not implemented here.

Free compressor plugins are totally dominated by analog obsession and reality is that there is no reason to use worse sounding compressor plugins.

There is still lot of space where can people copy AO Patreon model and compete with AO - Reverbs, Distortion, Guitar pedals, Filters, ..

Its education tool for showing you how compressor works, its nice for that.

From musical perspective it introduces too much artifacts. Some stock DAW plugins are much worse but there are better free plugins, so no reason to use it for real music.

This plugin generated some excitement on its release. Its saturator effect is quite strong, much stronger then it would be on real hardware. Its one knob plugin with second knob controlling output gain.

It can't do negative output gain so your sound will be inevitably louder. Output trim is really needed for A/B tests in DAW. Output knob needs to be adjusted, to do negative gain in left position.

Since there is no wet/dry knob, its not for people wanting just slight effect. With output trim and wet/dry knobs it would be really good free plugin.

Dirty Pumper is pretty fun to play with. It works good on Hammond giving it soft overdrive sound without adding too much highs. I don't think it will be good on guitar, but on organs it does the good work. On DX7 it is good as well. On drums, I assume will do the job well, but haven't tested it there. Its not actually pumper, since there is no LFO tremolo.

Plugin has two knobs for IN, OUT gain - this is good and quite unusual in world of free plugins.

GUI is too big and lowpass filter is not doing much, I would make it bit stronger.

Worth downloading.