Dead Signal AudioMake your palm mutes hit like a truck.
NuSat is a free saturator built for heavy guitars, bass and drums. Tight lows, thick grit, no mud. No email, no account, no catch.
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Why your distortion turns to mud
You know the sound. Detuned guitars that chug so tight they hit like a second kick drum. Then you crank the distortion and the low end swells into a wet blanket, and the palm mutes stop punching.
The problem isn't how much drive you're using. It's where the bass is when the drive hits. Push big lows into a clipper and they smear everything above them.
Metal guitarists solved this decades ago by putting an overdrive pedal in front of the amp to cut the lows before the gain stage. NuSat builds that trick in as its first knob.
What you get
- Palm mutes that punch instead of smear. 01 / TIGHT Cuts the low end before the distortion, so the mud never gets made.
- Grit you can push all the way. 02 / DRIVE Up to 36 dB into a lopsided clipper that adds the warm, uneven harmonics real gear adds.
- Lose the rumble and the fizz. 03 / LOW CUT + HIGH CUT Clean up the boom and the bees-in-a-can top end after the distortion.
- Crush the drum bus and keep the punch. 04 / MIX Blend the clean signal back in for parallel saturation.
- Judge the tone, not the volume jump. NuSat turns its output down as you push Drive, so more grit doesn't just mean louder.
- No digital hash up top, even cranked. It runs at 4x internal resolution, so the high end stays clean.
A starting point
Rhythm guitar, on a distorted amp track
Tight 250 Hz · Drive 12 dB · Low Cut 80 Hz · High Cut 9 kHz · Mix 100%. The exact settings from the demo. Tune by ear from there.
Why is it free?
Straight answer: Dead Signal Audio is brand new, and NuSat is the first plugin. I'd rather it end up on a thousand mix busses than sit behind a paywall nobody's heard of. No email, no account, no trial timer. It's yours.
If it earns a spot in your chain, tag @officialdeadsignalaudio in what you make with it. That's the whole deal.
What it runs on
- Mac: macOS 12 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel. Audio Unit and VST3.
- Windows: 64-bit Windows 10 or 11. VST3.
- Not on Linux, iPad or phones (yet).