TL;DW: BrassRider is One Weird Trick for drum overheads in metal! BrassRider.zip(353k) So this is pretty simple, and pretty distinctive. I made it for my friend Tim (one day I’ll repost his amazing rant, on the brink of his possible death, to musicians about ‘stop buying DAWs! Stop buying mic pres and plugins and becoming […]
TL;DW: Highpass2 is an unusual-sounding variable-slope highpass filter. Highpass2.zip(351k) Much like Lowpass2… and yet, not entirely :) So, the way the interleaved IIR filters act in Highpass is like this: the harder you filter, the more the filter rolls off the very highest frequencies. That’s because it’s like the inverse of Lowpass2. It’s got the […]
TL;DW: Lowpass2 is an unusual-sounding variable-slope lowpass filter. Lowpass2.zip(353k) This new version of Lowpass exists to fix a bug, but then I added stuff to it that makes it entirely a new animal! The existing Lowpass tries to produce the same cutoff no matter what sample rate you use, but doing that meant high sample […]
TL;DW: Compresaturator fades between compressing and soft clipping. Compresaturator.zip(357k) This is eagerly anticipated. For some, it needs no introduction. For everyone else: one of the final plugins from the Kagi era, this stopped being available for a while when Kagi went out of business. It’s like a soft-saturator in which you can dial in even […]
