Peak Limiter is the first Airwindows loudness plugin, and has a number of unique features. While these days I encourage people to not limit or distort, and to use ADClip for the cleanest possible handling of overs, and to get NC-17 if you’re looking to just do silly loudness… there have been other approaches from […]
TapeDelayDemo is a delay AU universal binary plugin. The delay return has a Tape Fat stage in series with the feedback. Will do ANY analog echo sound, even the ‘wub wub wub’ feedback of a Memory Man, or bright echo effects. Dub madness! Tape Fat was like a primitive, tone-only variant of Iron Oxide, so Tape […]
DeEssDemo is the secretest of secret weapons, apparently. It’s found its way into some surprising places, even though it’s a generic Audio Unit plugin from 2007 (updated to 64 bit around 2011) with puzzling and obtuse controls. But the thing is, this plugin sonically outperforms anything when you really, really know what you’re doing, so I’ll […]
Drive is one of the early Airwindows saturation plugins. It’s edgier and gutsier than Density, which tends to sound really smooth. Like Density, it’s got a set of controls which let you do stuff beyond simple overdrive: split the signal into dry and wet, highpass the dry before distorting it for extra grind and energy, and […]
