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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
ShortBuss was a very interesting experiment. The idea was to build a mix buss that did not ‘slam’, but added fullness. This was done by measuring how much was being saturated in a very soft and gentle overdrive, saving that up, and applying it as second harmonic so the fullness wasn’t lost. There’s also acceleration […]
