Slew2 is just the slew section of what’s in Channel2. It’s very different behavior from the original Slew—on a meter, the original will just convert highs into noise and eventually choke them off. The new version will not go to silence at all, but slams just the 20K range (or whatever’s really near the Nyquist frequency) down very strikingly, leaving everything else untouched.
Incredible behavior for a freebie, way more useful than version one, and this is what’s in Channel2.
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 were being given a hard time by the customer service of another plugin company, which I shouldn’t go on about but nobody would be surprised at this point to learn it was DUY.
So, the goal was to put out a Tape-alike plugin that sounded just as good or better, sell it, and SUPPORT it.
If you measure even the first Iron Oxide and compare it with its ‘inspiration’ by running sines through it—sines that ramp up and down in volume—you’ll quickly learn that Iron Oxide handles that more gracefully, without artifacts or weirdness.
Iron Oxide’s now 64 bit Intel, plus 32 bit Intel and 32 bit PPC at the same time. That’s the old version I’m talking about, plus all intermediate versions, plus the current version, all of which were given to Iron Oxide owners as free updates.
So, the ‘better support’ side of things turned out also to be not that hard :)
If you’d like this version of Iron Oxide, buy the current one and ask me for this one in email. I’ll send it.
EnergyDemo is unusual.
Special algorithms exploit secret interactions with the sample rate to produce hot, vivid colorations loaded with crackling energy. Not your DAW’s EQ by a long, long shot. Doesn’t exist anywhere else in any form…
This has become my ultimate ‘hyping’ EQ tool, and it comes complete with descriptive names for each band. Note: these do not exactly correlate with a simple boost to a frequency center—they’re roughly associated with escalating frequency, but they aren’t confined completely to the frequency, and they interact in complicated ways. The descriptions apply less if you’re running at higher sample rates, but the plugin will run at any rate you like.
There is just a touch of Energy in the flagship Airwindows channel strip, CStrip, in the top EQ band when you boost it a whole lot. The plugin Energy, however, is the full-on real deal. It defines aggressive hypey boosts, and would work great in an ‘unrealistic’ EDM context.
Energy is $50.
Desk was the precursor of algorithmic Airwindows console modeling. The techniques used in these plugins are still present in the current Desk, but back in the day there were three, not one.
Desk was the subtlest: slew limiting and saturation calibrated to be very, very subtle.
TransDesk had that plus a trace of TubeSag set in a high range, bringing out some edge and tizz to resemble an SSL desk.
TubeDesk had the most slew limiting and saturation, and also had TubeSag in a lower range.
Part of the concept of Desk was the use of no controls: they’re just blank, like ADClip or Righteous or Mudslide or ShortBuss. The idea was you just put ’em in and they’re part of the circuitry.
If you’d like the first Desk plugins, buy the current Desk and ask me for ’em in email. I’ll send them.
