5+ Best Plugin Deals for Guitars, Drums & Mix Tracks 🎸🥁

Every now and then, a wave of plugin deals surfaces that actually makes you stop scrolling. But could they really change your workflow? We scoured the internetz for the hottest deals in October and these five best plugin deals stand out not because they’re hyped, but because they solve real problems such as tone shaping, mixing, vocal alignment, and analog character.

So, without further ado, let’s get started.

5+ Best Plugin Deals for Guitars, Drums and Vocals (Diwali Sale)

1) Amplitube 5

Even if you’re not a guitarist, there’s something deeply satisfying about AmpliTube 5. It’s so much more than an amp sim. It is more on the lines of a fortress for tone-building, tone-sculpting or whatever you may wanna call it.

You can set up virtual rigs that mimic mic placements, cabs, pedals, and amps, then re-route everything however you want.

For someone who’s recorded guitars through various sims, what stands out here is how playable it feels. The responsiveness, especially with a decent interface, comes surprisingly close to the real thing.

Amplitube 5 delivers an authentic dynamic response and is a great practice tool when you want to jam quietly without losing that “amp in the room” vibe.

If you’ve been stuck using the same two amp sims in your DAW, this might be the right time to move up.

All together, Amplitube 5 is not just another tone library but a full studio guitar suite for shaping electric and bass guitar sounds.

2) FabFilter Essentials Bundle (Pro-C 2, Pro-Q 4, Pro-R 2)

FabFilter plugins are some of the most sought after in audio production. And, the Essentials Bundle includes three of the best-designed tools ever made for digital production.

Pro-Q 4 is the surgeon’s scalpel: transparent, intuitive, and ridiculously fast once you get used to it. 

Pro-C 2 might be the most musical digital compressor around; it never feels like it’s flattening your sound.

And, the Pro-R 2 reverb walks that fine line between realism and flexibility without turning your mix to mush.

If you ever wanted to go minimalist with one EQ, one comp, one reverb, these three plugins could easily become your daily drivers.

3) VocAlign 6 Pro

Anyone who edits vocals knows the pain of manual alignment. It’s tedious, it eats up hours, and it often still sounds off. VocAlign 6 Pro has quietly become one of those “time = money” plugins that genuinely earns its keep.

The beauty of this version is how natural it sounds. You can align double-tracked vocals, harmonies, or even ADR dialogue without introducing that robotic phasey mess that older versions sometimes caused.

And the integration with major DAWs (Logic, Pro Tools, Studio One) feels smoother than ever.

This one’s a sanity-saver. If you produce vocal-heavy music, the investment pays for itself in fewer headaches and faster turnarounds.

4) UAD Analog Classics Pro Bundle

If you are seeking that pristine analog polish for your mixes, the UAD Analog Classics Pro bundle takes the crown.

The UAD bundle includes some of the most iconic processors in music history such as the LA-2A, 1176, Fairchild, Pultec, and LA-6176 Channel Strip.

The best part is that Universal Audio’s modeling and emulation is frighteningly close to their hardware counterparts.

The compression behavior, saturation, and harmonic bloom are all right there. What’s great is you don’t have to be a vintage-gear fanatic to appreciate them; they simply make your mix feel expensive.

If you’ve ever wondered why professional mixes have that calm, glued sound, this is a big part of it. These tools don’t shout. They make everything sit just right.

5) Dawesome Kontrast

Dawesome Kontrast was created to replace the same ol’ wavetable loops that were beginning to bore serious music producers. Kontrast is not just another supersaw patch.

The USP of Kontrast is how it handles scanning through wavetables: instead of simply moving linearly through a list of waveforms, it lets you draw or define all manner of shapes from circles, spirals, to jumps and the sound moves through that shape.

So, you can easily craft a pad that shifts direction mid-phrase feels alive; or a bass tone that subtly glides into odd overtones sounds interesting rather than formulaic and predictable.

Kontrast also boasts a sequencer, with lanes for pitch, velocity, probability and gate, which open up tons of rhythmic modulation ideas.

Kontrast’s GUI is immersive and you can easily switch between trying to learn what the shape-mode does and actually making music.