Slate Digital is running its 2026 Spring Sale across the Virtual Mix Rack (VMR) ecosystem, covering the company’s most popular module bundles, classic compressors and EQs, saturation tools, transient designers and the Eiosis EQ range. Below is a breakdown of every product currently on sale, with a short description, current price, end-date and direct links to Plugin Boutique.
Sale period: Until May 4, 2026 (2026-05-04). All links below go to the discounted product pages on Plugin Boutique, where Slate Digital’s Spring Sale is active.
Products currently on sale
Mix Bundle One — analog mix chain starter bundle
Mix Bundle One is Slate Digital’s all-in-one starter rack for building analog-style mix chains. It packages four of the most loved Slate modules — FG-401 compressor, FG-S EQ, FG-N EQ and the FG-116 FET limiter — along with the Trimmer, Monster and Revival utility effects. Everything is modular and drag-and-drop inside Virtual Mix Rack, so you can assemble channel strips that emulate thousands of dollars worth of classic outboard.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Mix Bundle One on Plugin Boutique →
VMR Essentials — entry-level VMR channel strip bundle
VMR Essentials is the most accessible way to get into the Slate Virtual Mix Rack ecosystem. It bundles eight core modules — vintage-style EQs, compressors, exciters and a limiter — so you can build full channel strips for vocals, drums, bus processing and mastering. Because everything lives inside the same Virtual Mix Rack shell, you only ever have one plugin instance open while combining multiple classic tools.
Sale price: $29 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View VMR Essentials on Plugin Boutique →
Virtual Console Collection — six analog console emulations
Virtual Console Collection (VCC) transforms your DAW mixer into any of six legendary analog consoles, including British and American classics. Each instance colors channels and busses with the right amount of harmonic saturation, crosstalk and transient response, giving modern in-the-box mixes the glue that hardware console users have relied on for decades.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Virtual Console Collection on Plugin Boutique →
Virtual Preamp Collection — vintage analog preamp modules
Virtual Preamp Collection adds two meticulously modelled vintage preamps to Virtual Mix Rack. Pushing the drive controls yields anything from subtle warmth to aggressive tube-style saturation, making it a go-to for adding character to clean recordings, re-amping DI sources or thickening lifeless tracks.
Sale price: $29 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Virtual Preamp Collection on Plugin Boutique →
Virtual Tube Collection — three vintage tube saturation modules
Virtual Tube Collection delivers three different vintage tube saturation modules inside Virtual Mix Rack. Each models a different era of classic tube gear, from smooth hi-fi warmth to hard-driven studio sound. Drop them on busses or individual tracks for density and musical non-linear color that sits behind the mix, not on top of it.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Virtual Tube Collection on Plugin Boutique →
Chorus D Bundle — vintage chorus module duo
Chorus D Bundle captures the sound of one of the most celebrated vintage rack chorus units in two flexible VMR modules. With deep controls for rate, depth and character you can recreate the iconic width and shimmer on guitars, synths, pianos and backing vocals — or push further into experimental modulation territory.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Chorus D Bundle on Plugin Boutique →
Custom Series Bundle — boutique multi-band hybrid EQ
Custom Series Bundle is a band-by-band hybrid EQ that pulls its filter curves, transformer stages and gain cells from over a dozen classic analog EQs. You can mix and match the sound of a Pultec low end with a Neve-style mid and an API-style top for every single band — a genuinely creative mixing EQ rather than a simple vintage clone.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Custom Series Bundle on Plugin Boutique →
Custom Opto — versatile four-tone optical compressor
Custom Opto is a modern optical compressor with four selectable tone modes — Airy, Smooth, Aggro and Warm — that dramatically change the harmonic footprint while keeping the classic opto envelope. It is equally at home as a gentle vocal leveler, a slow buss glue compressor, or an aggressive drum smasher.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Custom Opto on Plugin Boutique →
FG-116 — four-flavour Blue Series FET compressor
FG-116 Blue Series FET Compressors delivers four flavors of the classic 1176-style FET compressor: two rare vintage Rev A “Blue” emulations and two more modern variants. Use it for the characteristic snap on drums, aggressive vocal grab, fast bass control or all-buttons-in parallel drum crushing.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View FG-116 on Plugin Boutique →
FG-36A — two-knob top-end exciter
FG-36A is a simple two-knob exciter modelled on a 1960s classic high-frequency enhancer. Dial in Intensity and Output to add air, clarity and expensive-sounding sheen to vocals, acoustic guitars and cymbals without the harshness of a straightforward EQ boost.
Sale price: $29 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View FG-36A on Plugin Boutique →
FG-Bomber — analog-modelled enhancer module
FG-Bomber is an analog-modelled enhancer designed to bring depth and impact to mixes and individual elements. It adds low-end weight and transient energy without simply boosting EQ, making it useful on masters that need more size, kicks that need more thump, or drum busses that need more presence.
Sale price: $29 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View FG-Bomber on Plugin Boutique →
FG-Dynamics — solid-state console bus compressor
FG-Dynamics models the compressor section of a classic solid-state large-format console. It is the kind of tight, punchy dynamic control that works equally well as a transparent mix-bus glue compressor or a mid-attack dynamics controller on drums, bass and full stems.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View FG-Dynamics on Plugin Boutique →
FG-Stress — modern take on the Distressor-style compressor
FG-Stress is Slate’s take on the legendary modern FET compressor that became a studio staple for its aggressive character. With multiple compression ratios, harmonic distortion modes and signal-shaping tools, it chases both surgical transient control and creative saturation effects in the same plugin.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View FG-Stress on Plugin Boutique →
Gates Bundle — versatile noise gate suite
Gates Bundle collects professional-grade noise gates for cleaning up drum recordings, tightening bass performances and eliminating bleed on live tracks. Fast attack and flexible side-chain options make it usable for both technical noise removal and creative gating effects on busses.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Gates Bundle on Plugin Boutique →
SD-3A — opto-style leveling amplifier
SD-3A is Slate’s take on the iconic LA-3A-style opto leveling amplifier. Its slow-ish, program-dependent behaviour excels on vocals, electric guitars and bass, adding that smooth, singing compression character associated with classic leveling amps while remaining very easy to dial in.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View SD-3A on Plugin Boutique →
SD-PE1 — Pultec-style passive EQ
SD-PE1 is an emulation of the legendary passive program EQ used on almost every classic record of the last 60 years. The simultaneous boost-and-attenuate trick on the low end produces that unmistakable Pultec weight, while the broad top-end shelves add effortless air to vocals and overheads.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View SD-PE1 on Plugin Boutique →
Transient Shaper — transient designer module
Transient Shaper is a level-independent transient designer for shaping attack and sustain on drums, percussion and melodic sources. It is especially useful for reviving flat sample libraries, pulling more snap out of overly-compressed masters, or softening percussion that is too aggressive in the mix.
Sale price: $58 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Transient Shaper on Plugin Boutique →
Eiosis Air & Earth EQ — air and low-end enhancement EQ
Eiosis Air & Earth EQ focuses on the musical ends of the spectrum — the “air” region above 6 kHz and the low “earth” region below 300 Hz. A single control instantly adds polished commercial-sounding sheen or solid foundation to any source, making it a fast problem-solver on mixes and masters.
Sale price: $29 (Spring Sale) — ends May 4, 2026. View Eiosis Air & Earth EQ on Plugin Boutique →
About Slate Digital
Slate Digital, founded by producer and engineer Steven Slate, became one of the most influential plugin companies of the last 15 years thanks to the Virtual Mix Rack platform, the Virtual Console Collection and the Virtual Tape Machines. You can browse the entire Slate Digital catalogue on the Slate Digital page at Plugin Boutique.
Summary — Is the Slate Digital Spring Sale worth it?
If you have been looking to expand your Virtual Mix Rack collection, the Spring Sale covers almost every major Slate module — from entry points like VMR Essentials and Mix Bundle One to individual flagship plugins like FG-116 and Custom Series Bundle. Prices are consistently at or near yearly lows and, because every product is VMR-native, new purchases drop straight into your existing Slate workflow. The sale ends on May 4, 2026, so plan your cart before then.