Nasty Channel

What It Does

Nasty Channel is a channel strip that lets you easily add grit, saturation, and distortion to your tracks. Dial in a noise layer to add crunch, grit, or shimmer to your bass, drum, and synth tracks. It serves as both a helpful mixing utility and a powerful creative effect. Add some disturbing girth or subtle thizz to individual tracks, buses, or the master channel. You can get as nasty as you want with this thing.

Barclay Crenshaw

Backstory

I wanted an easy distortion solution with good sounding thizz that I could add to make it pop in the mix. Most producers don't realize the bass is more about the nasty top and the overdrive than the actual sub bass. There are other plugins that kind of offer these features but not in this simple dirty ass format with good presets. This is the simplest, nastiest circuit available. I recorded all the top end sounds myself through disgusting analog pedals and filters. I found this insane guy who got fired from IBM in 1987 for hacking the mainframe to do all the coding. As long as I keep making fresh chocolate chip cookies he keeps working here.

Features

• Layer: Choose between 17 unique noise or oscillator layers to follow your input signal.
• Pitch: Adjust the pitch of the layer signal.
• Decay: Control the decay time of the layer signal. Crank it up for washed out soundscapes.
• HP: Cut out some low end from the layer signal with the highpass filter to keep your subs squeaky clean.
• LP: Use the lowpass filter to tame high end harshness and shape the tone of your sound.
• Warmth: Make your sounds extra toasty with this specialized low/mid warmth processor.
• Drive: Increase drive from subtle saturation to out of control heavy distortion.
• 17 layer sounds and seven streamlined controls for tweaking your sound.

System Requirements

• Minimum OS requirements: macOS 12 or Windows 10.
• Must be used within a DAW that supports VST3 or AU audio effects.