TL;DW: BassDrive is an old secret weapon, like a kind of bass amp. BassDrive.zip(381k) So here’s a blast from the past… There was this plugin called BassDrive… and it was a secret weapon. It was unlike any Airwindows plugin because it ran on painfully hard-coded biquad filter code, looked up from calculators online: which also […]
TL;DW: Biquad is the Airwindows implementation of a biquad filter. Biquad.zip(366k) This little puppy is really flexible! That’s true of any biquad filter, but I find most of them are really flexible and slightly plastic. Traditionally biquads require special handling, because you can’t push them too far before they break, and also they sound ‘DAW-y’ […]
TL;DW: ResEQ is a bank of mostly midrange resonances. ResEQ.zip(378k) Sometimes I’m just contrarian, and sometimes it’s for a reason. I keep getting asked to make a ‘Soothe’ plugin. I get that: it’s hyped, it lets you make stuff louder, my plugins are free and open source, why not etc etc. I understand why I’m […]
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 […]
