Mudslide was designed as a demo for the plugin DubSub. It’s a faceless, control-less bass guitar plugin designed to celebrate the magic of the mighty P-bass! I was going for an ideal thick, solid, articulate yet totally dull bass tone for driving a track from the backline, for free because you don’t get to tweak the knobs.
DubSubDemo is all things subsonic and bass! It can generate dubstep style sub-basses, fill in the bottom octave, octave-divide, synthesize house kicks from raw materials, and it defaults to a nice SansAmp-style bass tone!
Signal flow goes from top to bottom, so get sounds by starting with the grind and bass sections. The subs section (octave divided) draws on the bass section to work, so it’ll trigger differently based on what the bass section is doing. The bass section uses the lows out of the grind section’s crossover, so the whole plugin is really interactive—that’s why it defaults to a working bass tone when you first open it.
Treble Grind isn’t just a frequency band, it also distorts independently of the low-frequency sections, so to keep it clean you have to turn it down and the output level up. To distort the highs, turn the output down and crank the Treble Grind.
Drive and Output Level for each section are pretty obvious, and Voicing controls the range of power for each low-frequency section separately. High values means bass. Low values means monstrous heavy sub-lows, and putting Voicing to zero basically means subsonics and makes the low-frequency section just barely stable—if you are getting DC offset, check to see if you can make Voicing higher.
DubSub is $50.
IronOxide2Demo is the version of Iron Oxide that introduced separate controls for the top and bottom cutoffs of the plugin. It’s got input and output gains, and also was the first Iron Oxide to introduce antialiasing, which it does in an interesting way: it’s applying randomness to the ‘blur’ between adjacent samples, which is a trick that came from the plugin Chrome Oxide.
Iron Oxide 2 sounded a lot more midrangey and sonorous than Iron Oxide 1, and if you prefer this early version to the most recent ones (with flutter, and better mixing options) buy the current version and then ask me for Iron Oxide 2 in an email. I’ll send it.
ToTape2Demo is the version of ToTape where I brought in antialiasing. The earlier versions of ToTape went through changes mostly relating to the head bump: trying to get it smoother, managing its tendency to become unnaturally enormous.
If you like this earlier version of ToTape best, buy the current one and ask me for a copy of ToTape2. I’ll email you one.
