 Spitfire Audio's lab plugin gives you access to 54 completely free libraries from quirky sound effects to useful everyday instruments. Here are my personal favorites. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. You know those 54 libraries add up to 26 gigabytes of samples. So to save you some download time, I'm gonna point you towards my favorite five of the bunch, finishing off with my absolute favorite. Now it's not only time I'd like to save you, I'd also like to save you some money by drawing your attention to the sponsor of this video, DistroKid. If you follow the link in the description down below, you will get 7% off an already incredible price to distribute your music around the world. Now let's get started with one of my favorite vocal libraries in the collection. There's actually not too much to say about this one. It's called Choir and it sounds like, well, a choir. There's no key switches or any kinds of articulations with this, just one preset sound which is called Choir Long and it sounds like this. Now it does have one kind of characteristic about it and that is a kind of a swell if you like. If I play a single note, you'll hear sort of fairly consistent and then it just gets bigger and bigger and even bigger. Now that may not be exactly what you want but I rather like it. It sounds kind of expressive to me. Now just like many of these libraries, there are a few controls to change the sound. We have volume and expression here and if we click on this button in the middle of the big dial, we can see all of the other available options. We have reverb, attack, decay, sustain and release. Sometimes you just want a straightforward bass sound without having to deal with a fancy plugin and I guess that's what you get with this bass guitar library here. There's actually four different kinds of sounds within this library. You've got your first one, which I've got here, bass, guitar, classic bass amp and then you've got classic bass DI and then you've got warm bass amp, warm bass DI. So DI is just like having it plugged straight into an interface or straight into a console, okay? So it's not, you're not getting your room sound or anything like that. Let's just have a listen to classic bass amp. And you can hear a bit of the room sound in there which you may like or you may not like. So if you didn't like it, you're probably better off to go for one of the DI sounds. I'm gonna try out warm bass DI, okay? So I click on that and we'll have a listen to that. Okay, but sounding a little bit sterile. So what I'm gonna suggest to you is when you get a DI bass sound like this, even with a virtual bass like this one, what you can do is plug it through an amp sim of some kind. Now I'm gonna put it through this, which is an amp modeler, a new one from IK Multimedia called Tonex. This is the free version I've got here. And within the free version, you do get this one bass amp. So let's switch that on and see how our bass sounds now. I don't mind that at all. We do have some control over the sound of this. Again, the usual volume and expression and then we've got a reverb tightness variation. Not quite sure what that is, attack and release. I absolutely love me some cello. And this one is called cello moods. There's a few different kind of parts to this library. You can see them here for different keys. I think that's because some of the notes tail off, so they don't stay on the same note. They go to something else, which I think is why they have some different keys available. Anyway, I'm starting off with this one. See or have a listen. So you get some nice changes in tone with some of these variations. For example, if I go to see wistfulness, have a listen to the difference, I'll just play a little bit. Much more sort of direct sounding that one. Just, I just love the sort of earthiness of this particular library. I think if I was to mix this with some piano or acoustic guitar, it would sound absolutely awesome. We do have some control over the sound with some reverb, delay, attack and release controls here. You know, with so many libraries in this collection, it's easy for some of them to get kind of lost in the crowd. And that can happen to you too when you release your music, which is why our sponsor DistroKid have some amazing features to help you out. Things like the Wheel of Playlist. So one of the ways to actually get your music heard on Spotify is to get onto a playlist. Now, DistroKid offers a really fun way to get onto one of their playlist with their Wheel of Playlist feature. Simply head over to your DistroKid account, go to the top right where it says goodies, then go down to Wheel of Playlist. 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I feel like if I take this out on my boat, I could actually attract some whales as to me. The swells version of this is also rather nice, kind of warmer, I guess, or rounder sounding. Have a quick listen. Just love that. I really should create some of that kind of music one day. Now we do have some variations that we can apply here. We've also got a reverb control, attack, decay, sustain and release. I reckon you can never have enough drums in your life, especially very acoustic sounding ones like these. Now these are not to be confused with vintage drums, which you can also get for labs. And I showed those on the channel a couple of weeks ago. These ones are just called drums, okay? I wish there was more I could tell you about them. I wish I could say there's also kinds of controls on things there isn't. You just play the keys and you have a reverb control and this expression control and they sound like this. I mean, amazing what you can get for free. If you were playing those with some real acoustic instruments, guitars, bass, et cetera, they would sound really, really great. I reckon, especially like the toms, they sound like this. Ugh, just nice sounding toms. Hey, if you're already using labs, could you let me know in the comments down below what your favorite libraries are? That really helps me out because then I'll know what to recommend to you in the future. If you'd like to find out about more free stuff, then go ahead and click on this ever-growing playlist right here.