Tape, tubes, iron, and glue — an entire analog record chain in one photographed console. Every knob is calibrated to hardware behavior. Every meter is a real instrument. Every number we claim, we measure.
Most saturation plugins give you a color. CREOSOTE gives you the room: a tape machine with ten formulas on the shelf, a tube stage you can re-valve, eight vintage compressors with their true circuits, a summing amp with real iron on the output — laid out on a control-room console rendered with physically-baked light, down to the bulbs behind the meter glass.
CREOSOTE is calibrated and available for immediate deployment. Integrate the full analog record chain directly into your laboratory.
ACQUIRE_CREOSOTESeven transports. Ten reels. Three speeds. One WEAR knob that ages the whole transport at once.
A three-stage valve amplifier you can re-tube, re-bias, and re-era.
Not eight presets of one compressor — eight true hardware topologies.
Character saturation, stereo glue, and a ceiling clipper — all anti-derivative anti-aliased (ADAA), all measured.
Eight bands of dynamic EQ drawn on a machine-tool chart: cream card, blue graticule, red pen.
A real transport with scrape-band noise, head-gap width, and dropout aging driven by WEAR.
Real hardware never matched. CREOSOTE models that: pick UNIT 1 through 16 and the instance adopts that unit's component tolerances — filter corners drift up to ±5%, drive points shift fractions of a dB. Deterministic, recall-safe, and loudness-matched to ±0.005 dB.
Heavy drive usually costs you your transients. PUNCH detects onsets and momentarily eases the drive into the saturators (level-compensated, wet-path only) so the crack of the stick passes clean while the body stays thick. Measured: attacks pass ~1.4 dB cleaner at FULL.
Not a picture of a console — it's a console, photographed. Panels, caps, and instruments rendered in Blender Cycles under one locked studio light. Real bulb-backlit VUs, chunky bronze selectors, and light that spills organically across the plate.
Every audible improvement in CREOSOTE ships behind a DSP version gate. A session saved on any previous version recalls bit-identical while new sessions get the newest behavior. Enforced with an automated 36-pass-bar audio regression suite on every build.
Marketing says "warm." We say: 0.39% THD at 0 VU; alias floors driven down 16–35 dB by ADAA; EQ matched to analog prototypes within 0.16 dB at 20 kHz; comb-free wet/dry blending verified by null test.
Starting points voiced from the recording chains of records you know: Thriller, The Dark Side of the Moon, Rumours, Aja, Kind of Blue, Random Access Memories, Pet Sounds — plus the THETA artist set. All loudness-matched to unity.