Uppercut
Private betaPush it back. Leave everything else alone.
Uppercut turns the familiar “less level, less top, more room” recipe into one Depth control. The source moves away from you; its original stereo position stays where you put it.
AU + VST3 · macOS + Windows
Distance is normally a chain of small jobs.
Pull the level down. Soften the top. Change the room balance. Nudge the reflection timing. Spread the ambience. Then repeat the whole thing when the arrangement changes.
Depth moves those cues together. You turn it until the source sits where it should, then carry on with the mix.
The whole front panel
Three controls, because that is the point.
- Depth
- Near and present at one end; further back in the room at the other.
- Room
- Changes the size and character of the space, not the position of the source.
- Mix
- Backs the complete placement move away without unpicking it.
Nothing hidden
It is not a reverb editor.
There is no decay page, pre-delay menu or built-in EQ to manage. Uppercut creates the short room it needs for placement and keeps those decisions behind the Depth control.
What stays put
The direct sound remains the anchor.
Uppercut does not widen the original source or smear its pan position. The room provides the space around it. In mono, the width falls away cleanly while a centre component of the room remains.
The direct path is not delayed, so the plugin reports zero latency. The timing you hear belongs to the room, not to the source itself.
Private beta
Uppercut is working. Now we're listening to engineers.
If you regularly build this move with a fader, an EQ and a reverb send, tell us what you would put it on.
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