Softube have released Bad Speaker, a distortion plugin, available at the intro price of €19.00, increasing to €59.00 after the promotion.
Behold, the Bad Speaker in all its gritty glory! A boombox speaker plug-in, a psychoacoustic dirt fiend, and an amazingly effective vocal filter, it’s yours to use and abuse.
Bad Speaker serves three distinctly different flavors of speakers. From toy speaker to high-end monitor, we’ve got you covered! Use it to quickly add extra character or dirt to any track. It is also a really useful plug-in to widen mono sources in a very unique lo-fi way.
In addition to using it as a native plug-in, you may also use Bad Speaker in either Console 1 or in Amp Room.
Load up an instant lo-fi vibe or let nostalgic design and uncommon sounds inspire you to creatively break bad. Bad Speaker makes it easy to add spice to your productions with three distinctive speaker flavors. Play with the Portable Radio, Cassette Deck, and Hi-Fi Speaker modes. Experiment with various amounts of gritty distortion with the simple drive control. Or test out different types of sound design. No matter how you use it, Bad Speaker proves why it’s so fun to be bad.
When it comes to creating equipment that improves workflow and offers the highest quality sound, our reputation is rock solid — and long. Our partnerships with premium brands like Marshall, Tube- Tech, Chandler Limited, and Empirical Labs go back more than twenty years.
Bad Speaker is built on this legacy of creativity, passion, and attention to detail. Because to create tools that innovate, you have to have heart, soul, and Rock & Roll Science.
Get the overdriven speaker distortion you would expect from lo-fi speakers without needing to tweak parameters. Bad Speaker offers three selectable speaker modes that take you from toy speaker to high-end monitor.
In Portable Radio you get the worst lo-fi speaker we could find. Have fun driving it hard and watching it crumble. Cassette Deck gives you the ‘80s boombox at its best with a tight bass and a snarly mid-range bite. Hi-Fi Speaker is a great-sounding speaker in a room and a perfect jumping-off point for sonic excursions.
Ever notice how constraint can often lead to creativity? Bad Speaker features a streamlined selection of sliders so you can play and stay in your creative flow. Exaggerate the gritty distortion of the speaker modes with the Drive slider. Use the stereo slider to make your track sound wider or bring more power and focus by concentrating your sound in the center. With the Tone slider, you can easily tilt from lighter with more treble to a heavier bass sound.
Tip! Bad Speaker’s Extended Features are great for further distortion exploration as you can set the headroom and meter the changes in level.
You can add Bad Speaker in the shape and the drive section of Console 1 Mixing System. It’s also available for Softube Amp Room, the pro audio guitar and bass platform. Add it as a pre- or post-effect in Amp Room Suite mode or add it anywhere in the signal chain when in Studio mode.
Features include:
- Unique lo-fi speaker sounds perfect for sound design and experimentation
- From the makers of Tape, Dirty Tape, Wasted Space, Harmonics, and Saturation Knob
- Instantly apply distinctive character and dirt to your tracks
- Three speaker modes: Portable Radio, Cassette Deck, and Hi-fi Speaker
- Easy-to-use with a careful selection of modes and sliders
- Featuring a single Drive slider to exaggerate distortion
- Featuring a width slider to go from mono to stereo
- Get even more control over the dynamics with Softube Extended Features
Bad Speaker is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX) and requires an iLok account.
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