Netlist Effects
Punishingly Slow. So Worth It.
These are not effects built to be scattered across a session. They are complete circuit models: every resistor, capacitor, diode, transformer winding, tube, transistor, supply rail, and feedback path solved together as a single system. That kind of fidelity is expensive. A full bounce may take an hour. You may only want one instance on the master bus. We think that is a perfectly reasonable price to pay when the alternative is throwing away the very interactions that made the original machine interesting in the first place. Netlist Effects are for the moments when speed stops mattering, the mix is nearly finished, and you would rather wait for the whole machine than listen to an approximation of it.
The flagship
NETLISTSphinxographic Quartzalizer
Tidal Stereo Disruptor
An original circuit for a sound that didn't exist - yet.
- Leave the drums dry in the middle and let the tide tear the air around them
- Push HALO into its last few percent and let the sides drone
- Put GRAVITY on BOUND and hear the lines bend their own clocks
- Swing ECCENTRICITY from circle to pendulum
- Turn to THE OBSERVATORY and watch what the circuit is doing
VST®3 effect · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
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NETLISTGoodbaby
Flexible Moo Netlist Master Bus Compressor
We didn't 'model the mojo'. We modeled every single component.
- Put one on the master bus and let the whole mix lean into it
- Hear every part worked out together, not an imitation of the sound
- Play through the fast model, then bounce the real thing
- Wait for a full bounce the way you would book time on rare outboard gear
- Push it hard and hear the supply sag and the other channel answer
VST®3 effect · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
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NETLISTChicagoland
SDS-230 Bucket-Brigade Chorus
The "gooey" chorus you notice when it's gone.
- Put it on a pad and hear the room open up around it
- Switch it off, and notice what just left the room
- Hold two buttons down together and find the setting between them
- Trim a mode from inside, one part at a time
- Play through the live engine, then bounce the real thing
VST®3 effect · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
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NETLISTVertex 353
Magnetic Recording System
It takes a while because the tape is doing things. Lo-Fi things.
- Drive it hard and let the tape mangle the mix beautifully
- Pick a tape and a speed, then hear what the machine makes of them
- Wear it in: splices, a tired head, a reel running near its end
- Play through the fitted machine, then bounce the whole thing
- Wait for a bounce the way you would wait for a reel to rewind
VST®3 effect · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
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NETLISTGuilt Complex 'A'
Lamp Phaser
The phaser you leave on (because you couldn't live without it.)
- Leave it on a guitar, a pad or a whole mix, and keep it there
- Slow the sweep right down and hear it lean and breathe
- Push the feedback until the notches start to sing
- Stop the sweep and park it where it sounds best
- Play through the live engine, then bounce the real thing
VST®3 effect · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
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NETLISTOvertime
State-Variable Filter
The Genuine FIZZ you've been craving.
- Sweep a plain saw through the lowpass and hear it fizz
- Park MODE at NOTCH and let an LFO swing it to either side
- Sample-and-hold the cutoff on a bassline
- Turn RESONANCE up until the filter sings, then DRIVE it harder
- Play through the fast engine, then bounce the circuit
VST®3 effect · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
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NETLISTMadge Mustard Fluster
Bucket-Brigade Chorus/Flanger
Go from thick chorus to jet flange.
- Start on a thick chorus, then go all the way to a jet flange
- Push the feedback until it howls
- Turn the feedback the other way and try it negative
- Step the sweep with RANDOM, or jump it with SQUARE
- Play through the live engine, then bounce the circuit
VST®3 effect · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
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