Chrome Oxide was an alternate technique to go for ‘tape grunge’, originally sold as a separate plugin. It worked like this: it threw in a random noise, but instead of just overlaying the noise onto the sound, it used the noise to interpolate between the current and previous sample. What that did was noise up the […]
Flutter includes mono and stereo versions. It’s a great-sounding tape flutter effect that can be fairly intense, but there’s a problem: because of the design of the algorithm, I never got this version to have correct delay compensation. It does declare tons of latency, but it can’t lock on to the correct delay. It declares a […]
Bite is a precursor to Cojones. Here’s how it works. It works out what the average sample would be, between two points (if you smoothed off the sound completely and there were no transients in there). Then, it checks what actually IS there (not with the sophistication of Cojones, it’s just pretending the ‘smooth’ value would […]
Vibrato is a very adaptable freebie. It can be set with vibratos so fast they become ring modulation, and it can do two frequencies at once. Try doing chimelike sounds or similar effects!
