Another free plug-in. This time it's Tapehead from Steven Massey, Tapehead is saturation plug-in inspired by analogue tape machines. In their own words "add a little saturation to your mix. Make your drums fuller & louder. Add some grit to vocals." Not only is Tapehead amazing it's also free, you can download it here. To share the love, we've made an introductory screencast, to show some of the possibilities, you can see it here.

As regular readers will know, we love free stuff or cheap ways of making things sound expensive. To that end we've added a page which will focus on free plug-ins. While we're not suggesting that free plug-ins is always better than paid for, they are a great way to add tools or tones to your armoury. The other bonus is that because they are developed free of financial constraints they are often more innovative, extreme and just downright weird.
We've kicked off with Prosoniq's free filter North Pole. The good news is, it's now available as an AU, so compatible with Garageband, Logic and other hosts that support the AU format. You can download North Pole from Prosoniq.com.

We've also knocked up a quick introductory video, which hopefully you'll find useful.

Browsing round the web this morning I came across a free samples offer. SampleLogic are offering 500meg of samples for Kontak 2 or 3. As free sounds are always welcome, I signed up for the offer, which takes the form of the usual request for address and email details. They're downloading as I type, so I haven't had a chance to try them yet but I thought it was worth sharing.

You can download them here, SampleLogic.

James