Best free plug-ins this year: Top 10 free effects and synths of 2020

It’s time to look back at the best freeware plug-ins of the year! We’ve gone through all of our Sunday freeware posts and hand-picked ten effects and synths that stood out from the rest.

Best free plug-ins this week: Oldigy, Wave Observer and Freqs

This Sunday, we've got three early X-mas presents for you: low-res digital goodness and not one, but two free analysers for mixing and mastering.

Best free plug-ins this week: Air Shelf, ChowPhaser and ChowCentaur

Our three favorite free plug-ins of the week: a high frequency shaper and two open-source emulations of legendary pedals. Check out Air Shelf, ChowPhaser and ChowCentaur!

Best free plug-ins this week: Fresh Air, Bucket Pops and CHOW Matrix

This week’s collection of the best free plug-ins brings you a breath of Fresh Air, a fun vintage drum machine and a delay that grows like a tree.

Best free plug-ins this week: Warrior, Britpressor and dpMeter5

In this week’s collection of the best free plug-ins: a synth hard electronic music, a vintage compressor and an indispensable mastering tool.

Best free plug-ins this week: dearVR MICRO, Crack and Vinyl

This week’s roundup of the best free plug-ins features a 3D panner, a transient designer and a reissue of one of the most beloved free plug-ins of all time.

Best free plug-ins this week: Varispeed, sTiltv2 and Devil Spring Reverb

This week's roundup of the best free plug-ins features a tape delay, a spring reverb and a tilting equalizer. Here's Varispeed, sTiltv2 and Devil Spring Reverb.

Best free plug-ins this week: KABIN, NA808 Overdrive Pro and Odin 2

Guitarists will love these free plug-ins: We've got a free Tube Screamer and a cabinet modeler. Also, one of this year's most exciting freeware synths has made it out of beta testing!

Best free plug-ins this week: Swanky Amp, Bass Deluxe and Monique

This week's collection of the best free plug-ins brings you two brand-new tube amp simulations! And did we mention that the awesome Monoplugs Monique synthesizer is now free?

Best free plug-ins this week: Dirty Filter, FenrIR and PanCake 2

This weeks collection of the best free plug-ins brings us a filter and distortion effect, a versatile impulse response loader and a classic panning effect that should be in everyone’s collection.

Vertex Effects Steel String Supreme: Can it get you that John Mayer Continuum tone in a pedal?

The new Vertex Steel String Supreme is based on a Dumble Steel String Singer amp that John Mayer used on his Continuum album. If you're looking for that tone, this pedal may be a good starting point.

Best free plug-ins this week: Molot, Protoverb and DC1A

This week's collection of free plug-ins features three classics that everyone should have in their collection. We've got two great compressors and an experimental reverb: Molot, Protoverb and DC1A.

Best free plug-ins this week: Multiply, Graillon Free and UpStereo

This week's collection of the best free plug-ins features three classics. We’ve got a chorus with a couple of extras, a pitch shifting and correction plug-in and a stereo enhancer.

Best free plug-ins this week: Tonetta Blue, Clean Shave and MRX90

This week's roundup of the best free plug-ins features a semi-modular synthesizer, a filter for removing sub bass frequencies and a tape effect. Here's Tonetta Blue, Clean Shave and MRX90!

Best free plug-ins this week: jParaComp, GON and Fuzz Ball

This week’s collection of the best free plug-ins has a little bit of everything: A stereo compressor, a useful stereo goniometer and an open-source fuzz. Here’s jParaComp, GON and Fuzz Ball.

Best free plug-ins this week: The Seductress, QRange and Vocal King

This week's collection of the best free plug-ins has it all: a tonewheel organ emulation, a linear phase EQ and a vocal mixing plug-in. Here's The Seductress, QRange and Vocal King.

The best 1176 compressor reissues, clones and alternatives

The 1176 Limiting Amplifier is one of the most iconic compressor designs in history. Here's our list of the best hardware 1176 reissues, clones and alternatives.

Best free plug-ins this week: Spectral Attractors, Defiant WT and A1TriggerGate

This week's collection of free plug-ins brings you an experimental Max for Live device and two classics. Here's Spectral Attractors, Defiant WT and A1TriggerGate.

Best free plug-ins this week: Fracture, Nova and FreqEcho

The free plug-in developers are enjoying a well-deserved vacation. So we've gone through the archives and dug up three classic freeware plug-ins that everyone should know. Check them out here!

Best free plug-ins this week: Subdivine Lite, Speedrum Lite, CollidingCombSynth

Looking for booming 808-style basses? This week's roundup of the best free plug-ins has got you covered! We've also got a cool little drum sampler and an experimental synth.

Best free plug-ins this week: LOADED, Modern Deluxe and Mini Ringo

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a channel strip, a British guitar amp and a MIDI groove sequencer. Check out LOADED, Modern Deluxe and Mini Ringo!

Best free plug-ins this week: PreFET, TuPRE and Stochas

This week's collection of the best free plug-ins has got you covered in the preamp department with one FET and one tube emulation. We've also got a nifty performance sequencer that's now open source.

Best free plug-ins this week: Dragonfly Reverb 3.2, Yumbu and Freq 2

This week's collection of free plug-ins features the latest version of a very popular free reverb plug-in. We've also got a drum sampler and an EQ. Here's Dragonfly Reverb 3.2, Yumbu and Freq 2.

The best reverb plug-ins (of this year so far)

2020 has been a good year for reverb plug-ins so far with many interesting new releases. Here's our list of the best new reverb plug-ins that came out in the last few months.