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Multiband distortion · AU · VST3 · macOS · $19

SCREE puts distortion exactly where the track needs it.

Four bands, eight ways to break them. Tube, tape, diode, iron, fold, crush, rectify, sine — two stages per band, level-matched so drive changes the sound, not the loudness.

For mix engineers and producers who want dirt they can place. Not a pedal for the master bus, and not a guitar amp.

Buy · $19 One payment, every update · 14 days money back
The SCREE interface: the spectrum with three movable splits on top, four band tiles, the focus field with transfer curve and the two stages, the joystick for wet and inject, and the eight-band mid/side EQ below.
Rendered by the plugin itself · preset Tar Pit, four mid/side EQ bands set by hand · a sine at 110 Hz with one overtone running through it · not photographed in a DAW
What it does

Aim it where it burns

Four bands

Split where the music splits. Drag the three handles on the live spectrum. Linkwitz-Riley crossovers, phase-compensated — the sum stays flat to 0.02 dB.
Eight units, two stages

Each band gets its own character. One knob runs a pair of opposites — triode to starved, germanium to silicon, iron to steel. Put a second unit behind the first.
Inject

A distortion that feeds itself. The joystick runs wet across and inject up: the broken sum goes back into the input, limited and filtered. Small amounts thicken, large ones grow.
Mid/side EQ

Eight surgical bands behind the damage. Each one stereo, mid, side, left or right. Right-click a node for shape and track.
The numbers

Four bands that stay level

0.02 dBcrossover sum, 30 Hz – 16 kHz
8character units · two stages per band
±0.2 dBlevel match at −6 and −40 dBFS
8×oversampling, switchable
The licence

A serial, not a leash

Offlineno account, no activation server, no dongle
Every machinestudio, laptop, the one at the venue
Foreverit keeps working if this label stops existing
Freeevery update, for as long as there are updates

The serial is a calculation over your email address, not a key on a server — so nothing has to be switched on for the device to run, and nothing can be switched off. The full rule, including why prices here never drop after launch, is on one page.

Pricing policy
Get it

Nineteen dollars, once

No trial clock. At this price a demo costs you more time than the plugin costs money, so instead: the measurements are public, the interface is shown at full resolution, and if it turns out not to be for you, Paddle refunds you within fourteen days — no reason needed.

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$19SCREE · one payment, every update

Download link and serial arrive in the same email, and stay available under My licenses for as long as this label exists.

Sales tax or VAT added at checkout for your country.

  • macOS, Apple silicon + Intel, AU and VST3
  • Bound to your email, valid on every computer you use
  • Offline — no account, no licence server
  • Every update included, for as long as there are updates
  • Fourteen days money back, handled by Paddle

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