Nineteen bucks gets you a tube preamp plugin that makes your drum bus sound like it ate a vintage console for breakfast. M Media Audio dropped Broadcast Foundry, a two-channel saturation unit running on Windows, macOS, and Linux in VST3 and AU formats, and the whole vibe is just crank the input and let odd harmonics do the heavy lifting.
And the signal chain lowkey thinks for itself. Each side packs an 80 Hz bass shelf and an 8 kHz treble shelf that sculpt the saturation after it hits, not before, which hits way different than EQing a dry, unprocessed track. The two channels carry fully separate low-end, top-end, and level knobs.
Three routing modes handle the stereo field. Stereo locks both sides together for classic bus glue, Dual severs the link entirely for M/S work or splitting kick from overheads, and Mono collapses everything dead center for compatibility checks. A free demo exists with zero account signup, and macOS gets a Universal Binary covering Apple Silicon and Intel.
And the signal chain lowkey thinks for itself. Each side packs an 80 Hz bass shelf and an 8 kHz treble shelf that sculpt the saturation after it hits, not before, which hits way different than EQing a dry, unprocessed track. The two channels carry fully separate low-end, top-end, and level knobs.
Three routing modes handle the stereo field. Stereo locks both sides together for classic bus glue, Dual severs the link entirely for M/S work or splitting kick from overheads, and Mono collapses everything dead center for compatibility checks. A free demo exists with zero account signup, and macOS gets a Universal Binary covering Apple Silicon and Intel.
