Valves
At a Glance
| Type | Effect |
|---|---|
| Category | Overdrive |
| Platform | WiN |
| DAW | Any |
AudioThing Valves is a vintage tube overdrive plugin for adding warmth, grit, and amp-style coloration to your tracks. Its valve stage draws on classic tube designs, with gain control to shape the drive. Use it to roughen up synths, give bass more attitude, or explore guitar amplifier tones with eight modeled cabinets and dedicated bass and treble EQ controls. A resonant multimode filter offers low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch settings, with 2-pole or 4-pole operation. Place the filter before or after the valve stage to change how the distortion responds or refine its output. With up to 16x oversampling, 35 presets, a preset randomizer, and a resizable interface, Valves suits producers who want flexible tube coloration and hands-on tone shaping without a complicated effects chain.