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Punk Boost is aa plugin that pretends to emulate the behaviour of a bass preamp pedal effect.
This is a simple vst3/au booster plugin made with JUCE that I built to introduce myself in the JUCE framework. The functionality is somewhat inspired by the Harmonic Booster by Darkglass, but I implemented my own processing without trying out the original pedal.

Features

• Pre equalization controls:
  • Bass: ±12dB at 80Hz.
  • Mids: ±12dB at selected frequency.
  • Highs: ±12dB at 5kHz.
• Boost: ±12dB of gain that feed a parallel exciter processor.
  • As of now, the exciter is simply a saturation processor made with compressors and waveshapers that are blended with the clean signal to generate some harmonics.
  • I may change this behaviour if I find any kind of exciter processor that (IMO) sounds better.
• Character, a post-boost equalizer controlled with a single knob inspired in the VPF control on Markbass amplifiers.
  • At minimum, the eq curve is flat.
  • At maximum, the eq curve boosts lows and highs and dips the mids (around 500Hz). It kinda acts like a cab IR.

• Complex non-linearities for audio signal processing

https://github.com/gmoican/PunkBoost

Punk.Boost-0.1.0  ( 17 MB )