Mass
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About this plugin
Mass is a saturation plugin built around a single, purposeful design philosophy: add weight and character without conflating loudness with tone. The core control, named Mass, determines saturation intensity across three distinct modes. Modern delivers clean, dense compression-like behavior ideal for mix bus glue. Vintage imparts warm, asymmetric distortion with a tape-like quality that sustains complex tones naturally. Resonant is the standout - it isolates and drives a tunable mid band into parallel clipping, allowing bass fundamentals to remain uncolored while midrange elements crack and growl. This parallel approach proves particularly effective on synths and percussion.
The surrounding toolkit is equally thoughtful. A Focus control tilts tone or tunes the resonant peak across 250 Hz to 3.5 kHz. Phase, a six-stage all-pass disperser, reshapes transients without adding conventional distortion artifacts. An equal-power Mix control enables true parallel saturation, while ±24 dB input and output trims provide practical range from subtle density to extreme destruction.
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The technical implementation justifies the design choices. Linear-phase oversampling up to 8x minimizes aliasing across saturation and clipping stages. Auto Gain level-matches output to input, letting you evaluate tone rather than perceived loudness. A Delta function isolates only the added saturation, clarifying exactly what the plugin is doing to your signal.
Mass works on any source - bass, vocals, drums, mix bus - though its bass-centric design philosophy (creator is a drum and bass producer) feels most natural in that context. Automation remains smooth and time-aligned. This is utilitarian saturation for producers and engineers who value transparency and control.