BPB Dirty Spring is a freeware spring reverb effect with adjustable pre-delay and a built-in bitcrusher.
Use the Decay and Tone knobs to shape the spring reverb algorithm, and adjust the reverb level with the Mix knob. You can preview the reverb effect by pressing the Kick button. It simulates kicking a hardware spring reverb.
The Dirt knob controls the bitcrushing effect. There are six bitcrusher presets which range from subtle to over-the-top.
BPB Dirty Spring is available in VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX plugin formats for digital audio workstations on Windows and macOS. Both 32-bit and 64-bit plugin hosts are supported.
Features:
Price: Free.
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Reviewed By darioarizmendi [all]
October 17th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows
If you use it, check the highs even without bitcrusher added you will get some nasty and harsh artifacts.
Read ReviewReviewed By Trader One [all]
November 28th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows
I do not like idea to combine spring reverb with bit crusher. It's best to keep them in separate plugins. Spring reverb is just very basic one - use it if you do not have anything better but bit crusher is actually quite usable for current lo fi music craze.
There are better free spring reverb plugins, and yes there are better bit crushers too. Both parts of plugin do something but not much while crusher doing more then spring reverb. I think crusher is included to encourage people to distort not very good spring reverb.
If you are not perfectionist you will use it, everything fits into current EDM and if mix quality is bad you can call it lo fi. Overall it's just average quality we see in free plugins, nothing you have to download.
Read ReviewReviewed By Faydit [all]
November 27th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows
Really nice and good sounding and working spring reverb.
Well adjustable, even more flexible controls than most real hardware spring reverbs offer.
The bitcrusher allows some additional lo-if colorations, which also work well.
Nice, twangy, typical spring reverb, to be honest, I have already heard some commercial spring reverbs, whose tones convinced me much less.
As spring reverbs can sound very different, it might be a matter of taste, if you like the character of this one, but you hardly can do much wrong, as it is freeware.
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