IronOxideDemo was the start of a whole lot! This plugin helped launch Airwindows. It’s an old school tape sim, by which I mean it’s ‘bandpassy’ and distorted. Back in the day, people considered that to be the sound of a ‘tape plugin’. Iron Oxide was largely created as a sort of crusade. I had friends who […]
Wah is the definitive Airwindows style plugin. It’s a wah pedal. Really—try it! It’s a one-slider freebie that works and acts like a wah pedal. I used this plugin to test out some ideas for smoothing control input, so working the frequency will give a more fluid effect than typical plugins.
SpacedOut is the ‘aliased MySpace monitoring’ section of the plugin SpaceOdyssey. This was a 2008 plugin designed to help people monitor what the MySpace audio player was going to do to their sound. At the time, MySpace was a big deal for bands and musicians, but if you uploaded music to it, your music would be […]
DrumSlam is an emulation, but not of hardware. It’s a riff on the sound of Massey’s TapeHead. Because why not? Well, the reason why not is mostly this: that’s not my favorite sound, so it’s not such a great idea. I heard a midrange drive, a sort of treble air that comes in, and low frequency […]
