Shave the peaks. Hear what you cut.
Peaks are what stop a drum bus or a master from getting louder. Fault shaves them off, from a hard clip to a soft one, with oversampling to keep it clean, and a button that plays only what it took away.
Out now · Mac + Windows
$15 one time. No subscription, no trial, 14-day refund.
Fault in 5 parts.
Hard to soft
SHAPE slides the clip from a hard corner to a gentle knee, so the same plugin does a drum bus shave and a soft saturation.
Drive and clip level
DRIVE pushes into the clip and CLIP LEVEL sets where it bites, from -12 to 0 dBFS. OUTPUT sets what leaves.
Oversampling
1x, 2x, 4x or 8x keeps the clipping from folding back as harshness. The latency stays the same, 40 samples, at every setting.
Hear what it removed
HEAR REMOVED plays only what the clipper cut off, so you hear the damage you are doing before you commit to it. The display shows it too.
Match and Link
MATCH stops the output being louder than the input, so you judge the sound and not the volume. LINK clips both channels together so a hit keeps its place in the stereo field.
- Measured. On a hard test (a 7 kHz tone, hard clip, +9 dB of drive), the distortion that folds back is 26.8 dB under the tone with no oversampling, 40.9 dB at 2x, 51.3 dB at 4x and 64.4 dB at 8x.
- Not a hard ceiling. After the oversampling filter, deeply clipped noisy material can read up to about 3 dB over the clip level in our tests. Put a limiter after it if you need a guaranteed peak.
- Transparent below the clip level. A quiet sine comes out the same, delayed 40 samples, with the error more than 70 dB down.
- Light on CPU. About 1.2% of one core at 4x and 2.1% at 8x in our test.
- Licensed, no trial. It stays silent until you enter the license key from your purchase email. 14-day refunds, no questions asked.
- Not part of the Nu series. It is a separate release with its own look.
Quick answers.
What is Fault?
Peaks are what stop a drum bus or a master from getting louder. Fault shaves them off, from a hard clip to a soft one, with oversampling to keep it clean, and a button that plays only what it took away.
How much is Fault?
Fault is $15, one time. No subscription and no trial: it stays silent until you enter the license key that arrives right after you buy. 14-day refunds, no questions asked.
Does Fault work in FL Studio, Reaper, Ableton, Logic and GarageBand?
Fault is an effect plugin. On Mac it comes as AU and VST3 (Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, Reaper, FL Studio, Studio One and others); on Windows it is VST3 (FL Studio, Reaper, Ableton Live, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig). Pro Tools (AAX) is not supported yet.
What do I need to run Fault?
Mac: macOS 12+, Apple Silicon and Intel, AU and VST3. Windows: 10 and 11, 64-bit, VST3.
Is Fault part of the Nu series?
No. The Nu series is our separate line of free plugins for heavy music. Fault is its own release with its own look.
Fault.
$15, once.
You get a license key the moment payment clears, plus the installers for Mac and Windows. Fault stays silent until you enter the key, so there is nothing to forget about later. 14-day refunds, no questions asked.
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