Dubstation 2

The Original Dub Delay Plugin

Audio Damage’s painstakingly modelled bucket-brigade delay has been the go-to plugin for that sound for over a decade, used in thousands of commercial productions, and with good reason. Dubstation’s intuitive topology brings the mojo of yesteryears' hardware delays to your DAW.

Dubstation 2 takes our most popular product and adds a whole raft of new features. With the addition of LFO and saturation controls, Dubstation 2 now fully emulates a vintage bucket-brigade delay, and the new dual-mode for separate control over the left and right delay times and ping-pong make it a Swiss Army knife for delay effects.

Double Up!

What’s better than one delay line? Two! And for that very reason, Dubstation 2 introduces dual-mode, exposing separate delay time controls for its left and right channels as well as ping-pong mode for tried-and-true cross-feedback effects making your delays alternate between channels.

Degrade!

Dubstation 2 features analogue-style saturation as well as low- and high-cut filters inviting you to shape its sound from fuzzy-warm to spiky-bright. True to its bucket-brigade roots, the plugin’s spectral character changes with increasing delay times. Whether you’re looking to add some old-school warmth to your downtempo production or wreak feedback havoc at your next live gig - we got you covered!

Modulate!

Get things moving with Dubstation’s delay-time modulation. Use the integrated Low-Frequently Oscillator to Introduce subtle chorusing, doubling effects or chirpy pitch sweeps - made possible by Dubstation’s emulation of vintage delay hardware.

Loop!

As if Dubstation didn’t give you enough ways to repeat audio, engaging its ‘loop’ switch turns the plugin turns into a squeaky clean digital looper that won’t degrade your signal. Missing some of that dirt?  Tweak the filter and saturation controls to find that sweet spot for your next one-person jam session - or leave your audience with a little something for their way out of the venue.

What's New in v2.4

• Tap Tempo with a new Sync Source switch lets you set the delay clock from a three-tap front-panel button instead of host BPM.
• MIDI Tap drives the tap button from any MIDI note or CC, configured in the new Settings panel.
• Mix Lock padlock keeps the current wet/dry balance when you switch presets, so an audition never yanks your mix.
• New shared preset browser matching the rest of the Audio Damage line, with folder navigation, copy and paste of preset state, import and export of zipped folders, and one-click random name generation.
• Default preset support. Save a user preset called Default and every new Dubstation 2 instance opens with your settings instead of the factory state.
• 30 new factory presets covering dub, slapback, ambient, modulated, and experimental territory.

Features

• Classic Delay Algorithm: Dubstation 2 features Audio Damage's renowned model of bucket-brigade delay circuits, a faithful digital recreation of vintage hardware.
• Time Controls: The user can switch between two delay time ranges, encompassing 4 to 2000 milliseconds. Frequency-response characteristics vary with delay time - a fundamental aspect of the sonic personality of analog bucket-brigade delay circuits.
• Low-Frequency Oscillator: Delay time can be periodically altered with an LFO, producing changes in both the time between delayed signals and their apparent pitch.
• Filters: Low-cut and high-cut filters with user-controlled cutoff frequencies in the delay path offer a wide range of timbres
• Saturation: Analogue-style saturation with an amount of control allowing for distortion from the subtle to the extreme.
• Feedback: User-controllable feedback ranging from almost none to full feedback of the delayed signal back into the delay lines' inputs.
• Loop Mode: Causes Dubstation to endlessly play the audio currently in its delay line without alteration. Filter and saturation effects are applied to the output signal in Loop Mode.
• Reverse Mode: The Reverse switch makes Dubstation reverse the current contents of its delay memory and the direction in which it records.
• Mix control: Blend of the processed and the dry input signal.
• Gain Staging Controls: Input and output gain controls range from -80dB to +3dB.
• Cross-Platform Preset Format: Dubstation 2 utilizes an XML-based preset manager. Work between multiple systems without troubles, make a preset on your desktop machine and paste it to the iOS version with Handoff, easily share your creations with your friends, or make a preset bundle to sell.
• Fully Resizable Hi-Dpi/Retina GUI: Dubstation 2's vector-based GUI is resolution-agnostic, and displays the same on every system and resolution. Easily resize the UI (per instance) to match your visual needs, from postage stamp to poster-sized.