Soundtoys
100 gecs
“some things are just like, we're gonna throw a little little Decapitator on something just to try to get it a little bit thicker”
A. G. Cook
“I've also got this FilterFreak on it, Soundtoys. I actually don't use this plugin very often, but the ethos was embracing the chaos.”
Arlo Parks
“it's a guitar DI, so it's mono, but then we use the little Soundtoys MicroShift to widen it as the drums come in”
Bleachers
“That's me just playing the Moog... but you put a tremolator on it, it starts to get really tense.”
“I have them kind of slightly underwater... There's a filter freak, which I like. It makes it feel like someone's inner dialogue.”
“If I'm going to take off high end on my vocal, I like a Soundtoys Filter Freak. I know how to play with it in a very specific way.”
“Sometimes I'll just fuck with the formant in the vocal... I like Little AlterBoy. This is always nice under a vocal.”
“If I had like, uh, my favorite slap, like an Echo Boy, right? If I had that on, very cool tone. Extremely not personal”
Bob Vylan
“Shout out to Soundtoys every time because it's so good. The Radiator is wicked as well for just warming up those sounds and giving it some grit”
Bonobo
“The first thing it's going through is Decapitator, so we get a bit of distortion.”
“Then it's going to Alter Boy and it's pitching it. This one's pitched to fifths.”
Bring Me The Horizon
“It's got Alter Boy like sweeping it up and down, making it sound weird.”
“AlterBoy. Alter Boy is— I mean, I must say that for every song we write. Can you put Alter Boy on it?”
Charli XCX
“but then there's this, the phaser MicroShift as well. These kind of details”
“we did use specifically the robot mode in AlterBoy to do these kind of harmonies, static one-note things”
“again, AlterBoy, isn't it? Just AlterBoy and having those really hard pans... leaning into all that extra dirt”
Declan Mckenna
“it's just our voices but pitched in different ways using AlterBoy, just like a Soundtoys pitching plugin, quite a popular one for that.”
“on Alter Boy, which features fairly heavily on this album, you can change the pitch, you can also change formant.”
“we've got more of these Alter Boy vocals I was talking about earlier... doing these little fake laughs.”
Djo
“Little Echo Boy. Little brigade chorus. I love how chewy that sounds.”
“This is an old trick I like on percussion, some Soundtoys Devil-Loc. I use this a lot, all the time.”
“And some Micro Shift on there gets used a ton.”
“Yeah, more EchoBoy. A little bit of EQ. Not doing too much.”
“A little bit of MicroShift for the width. Soundtoys.”
“I think it's Little AlterBoy… we use a lot of Little AlterBoy.”
Four Tet
“I've used this plugin called MicroShift on it, which makes things sound more sort of 3-dimensional... MicroShift, Soundtoys”
Fred
“I put it into this thing that moves the filter, Filter Freak. Though to be honest, I'm not sure that's doing much”
Hayley Williams
“We threw a phaser on it just to put it in a weird space — I use this Phase Mistress, the Deep Phase preset.”
“A lot of my vocal chain will have some Soundtoys stuff — I like having MicroShift especially for chorus vocal buses.”
Holly Humberstone
“And then I love this plugin, Soundtoys PanMan. That's just going around the ears, a bit of tape on it.”
“I think plugin-wise, Soundtoys Decapitator has always been my sort of go-to.”
IDLES
“I didn't have a bass in my home studio, so it's just a guitar that I've detuned with like Soundtoys or something like that”
Jacob Collier
“there's a plugin called Little AlterBoy that's on there that's slightly differently pitched, hard panned left to hard panned right”
Jamie xx
“it's just this Crystallizer thing, which a lot of people are using these days, a delay that also pitches the delay down and has this widening effect”
“I love to experiment with new plugins. I've been trying to dig into Soundtoys ones at the moment. Any tips or favourites?”
“I use the Crystallizer without the pitching quite a lot now because it has a very widening delay”
Joy Anon
“a combination of like Safari pedals and some Soundtoys stuff. We have Micro Shift, which I love. It's amazing kind of spreader”
“just a bit of Decapitator, Crystallizer on there. Nothing crazy”
“just a bit of Decapitator, Crystallizer on there. Nothing crazy. Really wanted to let their voice sit on top”
Kae Tempest
“There's some MIDI going on at the top with these racks... low-cut lo-fi keys racks with this Phase Mistress Soundtoys plugin I love.”
“There's this Soundtoys Filter Freak on the drum bus, which I don't usually use, but it sounds pretty cool. Just take some of the high end off.”
“There's like a ton of plugins on here, compressors and Decapitator, which I use a lot.”
Kasabian
“There's a Decapitator and then Valhalla. That pretty much is the chain for a lot of things for the last few albums.”
“Just a bit of Decapitator and a bit of Valhalla. That seems to get that sound instantly.”
“You add a bit of Little AlterBoy and a bit of Valhalla and you get a really nice— and then you go to Mark's.”
“So Decapitator is pretty good. It's not as good as the VST distortion. That's the true one.”
Lorde
“Devil-Loc is just something I kind of put on everything. That kind of cranks it up, pulls it all together a bit more”
“just some Decapitator, giving it some more juice and cut. I kind of always use this E setting”
“And then some Filter Freak, I think, because we do some automation eventually here”
“Devil-Loc again, we put on a lot of stuff just for a good kind of crunch and squeezing into your face”
“a good example of what I often do on drums, which is just like little Radiator. It's pretty basic”
Myles Smith
“A little bit of Decapitator on the piano. A favourite plugin.”
“It's called the Myles sauce background vocals, and it's honestly just Decapitator, 1176 and Valhalla”
Pomplamoose
“There's some Decapitator on that to give it some crunch”
Porter Robinson
“I love EchoBoy... its default preset has a little bit of pitch modulation, so the delay taps won't be redundant with the sound itself.”
RDS
“using an EchoBoy on this kind of like impulse with a few little rim samples”
Rex
“We put some effects on it, some Crystallizer, just to give it this little thing”
“Your vocal had to be Alter Boy... there are a lot of weird artifacts that came from Little Alter Boy taking the formant down”
“On this OG one I had this effect rack... a setting called EchoBoy's Galaxy on Effect Rack by Soundtoys”
“A setting that I tweaked a little bit that I really love called EchoBoy's Galaxy”
Royal Blood
“It's a clav, like a clavinet sound that I think I'm putting through a Devil-Loc and a chorus, basically destroying the integrity of the clav sound.”
Rudimental
“if you go to Echo Boy, reverb spaces... Echo Boy Galaxy. It just has an amazing long tail”
“I've got to say that Soundtoys EchoBoy. And the Galaxy preset, I literally put that on everything”
Sam Gellaitry
“Then I have EchoBoy with the classic tape slap... it really made me feel more confident, it gives this '80s sound”
The Favours
“Decapitator... it's definitely not distorting it, just kind of heating it up, the way I'd put it.”
“There's also an Echo Boy... yeah, so here's just Echo Boy.”