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nasty box

nasty box is a very HIFI audio plugin of a very LOFI little speaker. Make anything sound like a nasty little speaker with this VST / AU plugin for Mac or Windows.

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What's inside.

Nasty Box is ready to instantly give you that little broken speaker sound. You won’t find this sound anywhere else, because there’s only one! You may have never needed a little box that’s so nasty, but you’re here now and you can’t turn back.

The Nasty Box hardware was designed to be terrible, or dare we say, nasty. 

  • The main woofer is a vintage clock radio speaker. It lacks both high and low frequencies just like little woofers do.
  • The 4 tweeters were physically stuffed with random things like sand, pieces of plastic, glue, and dirt, so they have a very unpredictable way of reproducing higher frequencies.
  • The internal amplifiers are starved of energy, so they distort quickly and have a very raw dynamic range profile.
  • The box is made of plastic, and uses no internal damping. It's just a bad little box.
nasty box screenshot

The plugin captures every crack, buzz, and frequency-starved quirk of a very crappy little amp and speakers. It's probably using too much CPU for something that sounds so bad, but we love it. 

nasty box screenshot

Both the woofer and tweeters are unique multistate models created at increasing levels and intensities. 

The actual Nasty Box has a different amplifier for the woofers and tweeters. Blend them together, or solo the tweeters for different effects.

We used over 800 hours of source audio and far too many computers to model Nasty Box with. It probably wasn’t worth it, and we should have modelled something worthwhile. We did no such thing.

If you’re still reading this, you nasty!

nasty box screenshot

Release Details

• Plugin Formats: VST3 & AU (Audio Units)

• DAW Host Compatibility: FL Studio, Ableton, Logic, Cubase, Reaper or any app that supports VST3 / AU.

• Note: Using this plugin in Pro Tools requires a VST3 host wrapper, such as the free to use, Waves StudioVerse. We do not officially support this, but it should work well in such scenarios.

• Operating Systems: macOS 10.15+ or Windows 10+ (64bit)

• CPU Minimum: Intel Core i5/i7/i9 (AVX2 on Windows Required) / AMD Ryzen 3

• CPU Recommended: Apple Silicon M1+ / Intel 12th Gen+ / AMD Ryzen 5

• RAM: 8GB Recommended

• Internet connection required for initial activation.

• Designed in Vancouver, Canada by Subsocial Studios.

Release Notes

Nasty Box Version 1.1
• macOS Golden Gate 27 ready.
• Runs way more instances. Stack it on every track.
• Now resizable! 1x, 1.5x, or 2x.
• Faster, smoother, and leaner graphics in every DAW.
• FL Studio performance is now vastly superior.
• Now works in Pro Tools and other hosts running VST wrappers with Rosetta on Mac.

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