Buckets And Decay

BBD (bucket brigade device) chips create warm, analogue delays with a natural high frequency roll-off and increasing color on each repeat.

Introduced in the 1970s, they became a defining sound of chorus, flanging, vibrato, and analogue delay throughout the 1980s, and remain popular today.

PT2399 chips are inexpensive digital echo processors originally developed for karaoke systems.

Their limited bandwidth, distinctive filtering, and gritty repeats have made them favorites in countless guitar pedals.

Although they work in very different ways, both technologies are prized for the character they bring to echoes and modulation effects, offering musical imperfections that can be desirable over pristine digital delays.

We’ve modelled both delay chips, and combined them into a single, versatile plugin.

Chorus, flanger, and vibrato

Create a wide range of modulation effects with rate, depth, and lots of LFO shapes (triangle, sine, square and smooth random).

Spread

Turn mono sources into giant, wide textural beds of sound with the spread control, which offsets the delay time for the left and right channels.

Self-oscillation

Crank up the feedback and Buckets And Decay will scream like a banshee, just like the hardware units do.

Multiple models

Buckets And Decay features two BBD models and two PT2399 models. They’re all different, so you can find the right tone to meet the moment.

Requirements

Buckets And Decay is an audio plugin. It is available as an Audio Unit version 3 and VST3 plugin for macOS and Windows.

Buckets And Decay works with a wide range of audio apps. We have setup guides for Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Reaper, and Bitwig.

Not a subscription

When you purchase Buckets And Decay, all 1.x updates are included. There’s also a 30-day free trial, so you can use it for a while before making up your mind.

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