TL;DW: The angry overdrive! Drive If you know how to use Airwindows Density, you know how to use this. It’s exactly the same layout, except that it doesn’t go to negative values: this one’s just for slam. Why bother with such a similar plugin? Because of the tone! Density gets a thick, full, fluid tone […]
TL;DW: Smoothest saturation or antisaturation, plus highpass. Density This one started a lot! The algorithm used here has echoed through many other Airwindows plugins. It’s literally the smoothest saturation you can have in a plugin: the transfer function’s a sine. This is what’s in Channel, too: there are many ways to adapt such a simple […]
MultibandDistortion is just what you’d think- instead of just highpassing the signal, it splits it, and distorts each band separately, and recombines them in a strange matrix with a stability control. Separate hardness controls on each band, very flexible. This is one of those plugins where I don’t think there’s really a correct way to use […]
HardVacuumDemo is a vacuum tube AU universal binary plugin. It features very smooth overdrive, warmth for asymmetrical clipping, and an Aura control unavailable anywhere else. The Drive control gives you the basic tube saturation. Warmth doctors how that saturation is applied—and Aura is something a little special. It takes the angle of the waveform and alters […]
