These plug‑ins are all about warmth and distortion, and the flavours on offer range from gentle saturation at the subtler end of the scale through to crunching overload and squelchy obliteration.
Available through United Plugins, FireEQ combines several EQ methodologies with a view to making mixing and mastering flexible but without adding too much complexity.
With an array of different modelled devices and controls you won’t find on the original hardware, have Pulsar breathed new life into the humble spring reverb?
There are so many reverb plug‑ins for Mac and Windows DAW software now that, in order to stand out from the crowd, a new one needs to offer something a little out of the ordinary, and Minimal Audio’s Swarm Reverb does exactly this.
With a GUI that looks as though it was designed by an astrologer on magic mushrooms, Instant Audio’s QuickMuse is a five‑section multi‑effects plug‑in with a simple interface and some smart randomisation functions.
Recirculate is a feedback delay/echo that can process the feedback signals in various ways to make the repeats change character, with the change becoming more pronounced each time the signal passes around the feedback loop.