What are the best effects bundles of 2024? 

With so many music production plugin bundles around there's an excellent opportunity to save big cash on a lot of audio plugins whilst at the same time making sure you're getting top drawer quality and a set of audio plugins that truly fit your needs.

Why buy plugin bundles in 2024?

• More cost effective
• Consistent workflow
• Quick way to level up many areas of digital studio at once.
• Often better discounts on future upgrades/products

With there being some seriously good bundles around now-a-days .. let's take a look at some of the best plugin bundles of 2020.

Waves H-Series

Why Buy? 

For sheer utility and straightforward quality

What's included?

• Hybrid Comp
• H-EQ
• H-Reverb
• H-Delay

What we say.

A No nonsense bundle that offers a unique balance of tasteful colouring and versatile utility all in one package without overdoing character adding. If you want to add a bit of colour but also have a suit of FX that will serve you equally well in both your creative and mix-down process this is an excellent bundle to grab.

Soundtoys 5

Why Buy?

For their creative potential, 'that' sound and uniqueness and breadth of effect types.

What's included?

• Sie-Q
• EchoBoy
• EchoBoy Jr.
• PrimalTap
• Decapitator
• Little AlterBoy
• FilterFreak
• MicroShift
• Crystallizer
• PanMan
• Devil-Loc Deluxe
• PhaseMistress
• Radiator
• Tremolator
• Devil-Loc
• Little MicroShift
• Little PrimalTap
• Little Radiator

What we say.

Soundtoys offers a truly inspiring suite of creative FX that will lead you down musical paths you just wouldn't have explored without it. If you struggle with the creative process and looking for a bundle to boost your writing process - no question this is the one.

 

FabFilter Total Bundle

Why Buy?

For unparalleled audio quality

What's included?

• Pro-R: Algorithmic reverberation
• Pro-L2: Brickwall Limiter
• Pro-MB: Six-band compressor
• Pro-Q 3: 24-Band EQ
• Pro-C 2: Versatile broadband compressor
• Pro-DS: Intelligent de-esser
• Pro-G: Professional gate / expander
• Saturn: Multi-band distortion
• Twin 2: Versatile synthesizer
• Timeless 2: Tape Delay
• Volcano 2: modulatable quadruple effect filter
• One: Simple synthesizer
• Simplon: Double multimode filter
• Micro: Simple filter

What we say.

A host of creative, mix down and mastering style effects. Whilst it leans towards the mix down and master process there's some creative gems in here too. The pristine audio quality and sheer commitment to maintaining high quality is a reason alone to check this bundle out.

 

Softtube Volume 4

Why Buy?

Hand picked bundle of truly excellent utility and commitment to audio quality

What's included?

• Acoustic Feedback
• American Class A
• Bass Amp Room
• Drawmer S73 Intelligent Master Processor
• FET Compressor
• Fix Flanger and Doubler
• Fix Phaser
• Harmonics Analog Saturation Processor
• Heartbeat
• Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959
• Modular
• Monoment Bass
• OTO Biscuit
• Parallels
• Passive-Active Pack
• Saturation Knob
• Spring Reverb
• Summit Audio EQF-100 Full Range Equalizer
• Summit Audio Grand Channel
• Summit Audio TLA-100A Compressor
• TSAR-1 Reverb
• TSAR-1R Reverb
• Tape
• Transient Shaper
• Trident A-Range
• Tube Delay
• Vintage Amp Room
• Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer

What we say.

Looking for a bundle to supplement your mastering chain? Or something to help with mix-down duties? Softube offers an uncanny replication of many top tier mix and master worthy gear. There's also some solid creative effects thrown in so offers a good one stop shop for your production requirements.

D16 Group Silverline

Why Buy?

Relentless pursuit of emulation purity. Excellent price vs quality ratio.

What's included?

• Decimort2
• Devastor2
• Antresol
• Syntorus
• Toraverb
• Redoptor
• Fazortan

What we say.

A roundup of some excellent effects with unique character and single focussed approach means no dilly dallying around - real goto plugins which offer top quality sound when you know what you want and you just want something good to do it.

U-he All Effects Bundle

Why Buy?

Artisan developer who puts customer and audio quality equally at the heart of what they do. 

What's included?

• Twangström - Spring Reverberator.
• Colour Copy - Bucket Brigade Delay.
• Uhbik - Subtle to spectacular suite of 9 effects.
• Presswerk - Compression with musical soul.
• Satin - Tape emulation / construction kit.
• Filterscape - Dynamic filter and sound mangling.
• MFM2 - Ultra-flexible delay.

What we say.

U-he is a developer with a very loyal fan-base. And for good reason. Offering some of the very best audio quality available in plugin format today, a non intrusive and customer friendly approach to license activations and top tier customer service. 

You'll get a lot of milage out of these plugins and be in safe hands with the developer to boot.

 

DMG Audio Plugins

Why Buy?

Mixing and mastering tools that offer utility and rival hardware in their commitment to sound

What's included?

Up to you! Whilst DMG don't offer a 1 box bundle per se, they do offer a generous discount for each successive plugin purchased. Purchase 6+ of their plugins and you're getting a massive 35% off.

We recommend

• Equilibrium - A next level mastering EQ blending the best of algorithmic and impulse technologies with impulse responses from many high end hardware units.
• Equality - A no nonsense high quality track and mix EQ - ideal for day to day duties when you want something far beyond the scope and quality of your DAWs baked in EQ.
• Limitless - A truly excellent end of line limiter, we've road tested many in our own mastering house and pitted Limitless against many hardware limiters and Limitless consistently achieves the most transparent masters we've witnessed.
• Multiplicity - One box shop for all things dynamics, including multi band compression, gating, expansion and Dynamic EQ
• TrackGate - A simple but immensely high quality gate
• TrackLimit - Deceptively useful limiter meant for day to day track usage when you just need utility without compromising sound quality
• TrackMeter - Great metering is often overlooked in production and a dedicated meter can tell you much about your mix and master which may miss your hearing senses, particularly if your monitoring setup is limited.

What we say.

Dave Gamble of DMG Audio has been in the EQ game a long while and is well respected for his experience and ability in audio DSP and electric engineering.

Dave also being responsible for the much acclaimed Sonalksis EQs amongst others the commitment to audio quality shines through in his plugins and are some of the highest quality mix and master plugins available on the market today.

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If you're looking to save some money on plugins whilst bolstering your own plugin library then you should be checking out one of the bundles on the above list.