The Dirty, the Bad and the Wasted Collection

A sonically adventurous bundle set to save Softube shoppers some coin, The Dirty, the Bad, and the Wasted Collection gives users instant lo-fi options for their mixes in the form of some of Softube’s most fun-to-use plug-ins: Dirty Tape, Wasted Space, the brand-new Bad Speaker. With this collection, users get thelatest super-fun Softube effect, plus two popular others, while saving a fistful of dollars.

Bad Speaker

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.

The Art of Rock & Roll Science

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.

Three Selectable Speakers

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.

Slide Into Experimentation

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.

Bad Speaker for Console 1 & Amp Room

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

• 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

Learn more about Bad Speaker.

Dirty Tape

Dirty Tape gives you warm, analogue vibes from the moment you load it on a track. Capable of fiercely gritty distortion and saturation, Dirty Tape can also add subtle texture and movement to a sound. Like a photo filter for your tracks, Dirty Tape will take you from static and dull to lively and colourful in a snap.

• A tape dirt machine effect with Softube-quality sound
• Add warm, low fidelity vibes to any sample, instrument, or beat
• From the makers of Tape, Tape Echoes, Harmonics, and Saturation Knob

The Art of Rock & Roll Science

When it comes to creating equipment that improves workflow and offers the highest quality sound, Softube's reputation is rock solid—and long. Their partnerships with premium brands like Marshall, Tube- Tech, Chandler Limited®, and Empirical Labs go back nearly twenty years.

Dirty Tape 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.

Two Knobs Do The Job

With two knobs to regulate all the effects it produces, Dirty Tape makes it simple to add lo-fi, vintage vibes to your mix. The Dirt and Drive controls—based on the Dirt and Drive sections of Softube Tape Echoes—are precision-tuned to dial in the ideal amount of the intended effect. From retro distortion, saturation, and degradation to tape speed variations like pitch modulation, crosstalk, and stereo imbalance to flutter, dropouts, and wow. Dirty Tape delivers it all—with ease.

Calibrate a Custom Vibe

Set the Stereo Mode to Normal or use it De-coupled (dual mono) to have a greater effect on the balance of your stereo image. Adjust the Low Cut Filter to reduce low-end rumble and increase the lo-fi vibes. Dirty Tape’s parameters let you transform the character of a sound to your taste, from nuanced to in-your-face and every rendition in between.

Make Your Beat Pop

Programmed drum loop sounding too clean? Piano loop too hi-fi for your hip-hop vibe? All the components of your beat will sit right in your mix with the perfect amount of warm saturation from Dirty Tape. It lets you add movement, musicality, and a hip lo-fi mood to your beat-making process.

This product supports Extended Features

Softube loves VU meters, Bakelite knobs, and analogue quirks. But they want modern precision and workflow. The answer? Softube Extended Features. Easy-access panels with the innovations you need close at hand.

Features

• Realistic tape FX perfect for samples, instruments, and beat making
• From the makers of Tape, Tape Echoes, Harmonics, and Saturation Knob
• Instantly apply warm, vintage lo-fi mojo to your tracks
• Easy-to-use with just two knobs to control all the effects
• Derived from Softube Tape Echoes’ Dirt and Drive sections
• Go super-distorted and saturated or add subtle texture
• Featuring effects that range from random pitch modulation to flutter, wow, and dropouts
• Work in Normal Stereo or use De-coupled mode (dual mono) to further affect the balance of your stereo image
• Use the Low Cut Filter to reduce low-end rumble and increases lo-fi vibes
• Get even more control over the dynamics with Softube Extended Features

Learn more about Dirty Tape.

Wasted Space

When you need extreme digital lo-fi character quickly, the reverb to reach for is Wasted Space. Wasted Space gives you the retro ’80s aliasing artifacts currently in vogue in pop and electronic genres and takes them to eleven.

Put Wasted Space straight on a track to bring elements to the front of the mix or get a full low-fidelity sound by using it on a bus. With Wasted Space, you can go from lackluster to out-of-this-world in a flash.

The Art of Rock & Roll Science

When it comes to creating plug-ins that improve workflow and offer the highest quality sound, Softube's reputation is rock solid—and long. Their partnerships with premium brands like Marshall, Tube-Tech, Chandler Limited®, and Weiss Engineering go back nearly twenty years. Softube develop every product with creativity, passion, and attention to detail. Because to create tools that innovate, you have to have heart, soul, and Rock & Roll Science.

The features are with you

With an inspiring retro-futuristic interface and essential features, Wasted Space is the perfect tool for innovative sound design.

Wasted Space’s variable sample rate lets you quickly find your lo-fi sweet spot. You can use the filter options to sculpt the distortion with 12, 24, and 48 dB/octave types. Off gives you the most aggressively distorted sound, with 48 dB offering the smoothest of the types. The high pass slider lets you reduce the distortion in the high frequencies while keeping the distorted low frequencies, thereby removing the rumble often caused by low-frequency buildup.

What's included

Wasted Space

Wasted Space is classic reverb pushed to the outer limits of lo-fi. The variable sample rate and selectable aliasing filter types of this native plug-in make it fun to get creative in pursuit of the perfect lo-fi vibe.

Wasted Space for Modular

Use Wasted Space in Softube Modular, Softube's infinitely expandable, modular synthesizer platform. Virtually patch it to any of Softube's modules from Doepfer, Buchla, and Intellijel—to name a few—and sonically go where you haven’t before.

Learn more about Modular.

This product supports Extended Features

Softube love VU meters, Bakelite knobs, and analog quirks. But they want modern precision and workflow. The answer? Softube Extended Features. Easy-access panels with the innovations you need close at hand. 

In short

• Intentional exaggeration of aliasing artifacts that were present in early digital reverbs
• From the makers of TSAR-1 Reverb, TSAR-1R Reverb, Spring Reverb, Atlantis Dual Chambers, and more
• Variable sample rate and selectable aliasing filter types let you quickly find your ideal lo-fi vibe
• High pass filter to reduce low-end rumble
• Predelay and time sliders to effortlessly adjust traditional reverb parameters
• Dry/wet slider for finding the perfect balance on a track or going completely wet on a bus
• Featuring Softube Extended Features for even more control

Features

• Adjustable Sample Rate from 2400 Hz-24000 Hz
• Selectable Aliasing Filter Types (12, 24, 48 dB/octave, and Off)
• Variable High Pass Filter from 20 Hz-2 kHz
• Predelay from 0-60 milliseconds
• Reverb Time from 0-4.5 seconds
• Wet/Dry blend slider
• Includes 1 module for Softube Modular in addition to the native plug-in 

Learn more about Wasted Space.

System Requirements

• macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14
• Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11
• Softube account
• iLok account
• Computer with AU, VST, VST3 and/or AAX compatible DAW host software
• Internet access (for downloading installers and managing licenses)