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 […]
TL;DW: BlockParty is like a moderately saturated analog limiter. BlockParty.zip(359k) What do you get when you cross an Airwindows compressor, with OneCornerClip? Pretty much this. Okay, so it wasn’t a very difficult riddle, was it? BlockParty acts like a somewhat distorty limiter. It’s not at all about lookahead (in fact it doesn’t have any) or […]
TL;DW: PurestSquish is an open-sounding compressor with bass bloom. PurestSquish.zip(355K) This time, the video’s enormously long so I’ll be brief: PurestSquish is a compressor, with its own sound. In the video I compare it to Pressure4, Logical4, and SurgeTide, and also show how it can be used in conjunction with SurgeTide (a real ‘sleeper’ plugin […]
TL;DW: New kind of distorty. Cojones We’ll take a break from the Big Important Stuff to play with a weird experiment. This one’s easy to hear and difficult to understand! Cojones is one of the promised releases from back when I started all this. What’s interesting is, Cojones is also the seeds of Dither Me […]
