A very hi-fi model
of a very
lo-fi speaker
One terrible red plastic box, neurally-modeled at four levels of abuse.
It probably uses too much CPU for something that sounds this bad.
That's why we love it.
Just $1 more than the box. GET FOREVER Regular Price: $129
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Designed to fail.
The actual Nasty Box was built to be terrible, or dare we say, nasty.
Painted red, cartoon-like, and made of plastic with no internal damping. Two amplifiers starved of energy so they distort quickly with a raw, ugly dynamic range. It was designed to fail as an amplifier and as a set of speakers.
It's just a bad little box.
One roughed-up woofer
A vintage clock-radio speaker, beaten up until it performs badly. No real highs, no real lows. Just like every other crappy little speaker.
Four stuffed tweeters
Physically stuffed with sand, plastic shards, glue and dirt. Their way of reproducing high frequencies is completely unpredictable.
Woofer and tweeters were each captured as unique neural models at 4 increasing levels of intensity, using over 800 unique hours of modelling data. Separate amps, separate character, and different dynamics. Blend them together or solo the tweeters. Make it ugly.
WAYS TO WRECK IT.
NASTY FADER
Drive the woofer voices harder. Dynamics, tone and saturation all shift as you push.
NASTY MODES 1-4
Four woofer voices, four levels of abuse. 1 is the cleanest. 4 is the nastiest.
FIZZ MODES
Turn on the tweeters. Mix and match tweeter modes and woofer modes.
FIZZ SOLO
Isolate the tweeters and hear the tiny trash entirely on its own.
XXX
Full-quality nastiness. Flip it off to save CPU and get a more raw, less dynamic sound.
BLEND + WET BOOST
A true wet/dry crossfader plus wet output boost. Parallel filth control.
ALWAYS-ON CLIPPER
A tasty clipper/limiter sits on the output. Push levels into it and watch the light flash.
NASTY PRESETS
Factory presets plus your own. Saved once, they appear across all your DAWs.
Sounds bad.
On purpose.
Nasty Needs.
Note: Using this plugin in Pro Tools requires a VST3 host wrapper, such as the free to use, Waves StudioVerse. We do not officially support this, but it should work well in such scenarios.
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Testimonials.
Fake reviews. Real box. Genuinely awful.
“I bought it twice, but it still sounds bad.”
“I ran a forty thousand dollar vocal chain into this. It came out sounding like a drive-thru intercom.”
“Absolutely destroyed my sub bass. Best decision I've made this year.”
“As soon as I plugged my guitar in, every boutique pedal on my board listed itself on marketplace.”
“I A/B'd it against an actual broken speaker I found in a dumpster. The plugin won.”
“Client asked what happened to the mix. I said it was a creative decision. I have not been paid.”
Get nasty.
Nasty Box for macOS and Windows
