Nasty Box | Subsocial Studios
The Nasty Box

A very hi-fi model
of a very
lo-fi speaker

One genuinely 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.

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Nasty Box plugin interface
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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.

Inside the Nasty Box The Nasty Box speaker
Woofer

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.

Tweeter 1 Tweeter 2 Tweeter 3 Tweeter 4

Four stuffed tweeters

Physically stuffed with sand, plastic shards, glue and dirt. Their way of reproducing high frequencies is completely unpredictable.

captured, not simulated

Woofer and tweeters were each captured as unique neural models at 4 increasing levels of intensity. Separate amps, separate character, and different dynamics. Blend them together or solo the tweeters. Make it ugly.

WAY TO WRECK IT.

Nasty fader cap

NASTY FADER

Drive the woofer voices harder. Dynamics, tone and saturation all shift as you push.

Voice 1 Voice 2 Voice 3 Voice 4

NASTY MODES 1-4

Four woofer voices, four levels of abuse. 1 is the cleanest. 4 is the nastiest.

Fizz button

FIZZ MODES

Turn on the tweeters. Mix and match tweeter modes and woofer modes.

Solo button

FIZZ SOLO

Isolate the tweeters and hear the tiny trash entirely on its own.

XXX button

XXX

Full-quality nastiness. Flip it off to save CPU and get a more raw, less dynamic sound.

Blend fader capWet boost knob

BLEND + WET BOOST

A true wet/dry crossfader plus wet output boost. Parallel filth control. 

Clip light

ALWAYS-ON CLIPPER

A tasty clipper/limiter sits on the output. Push levels into it and watch the light flash.

< Ms Jackson if You're Nasty >

NASTY PRESETS

Factory presets plus your own. Saved once, they appear across all your DAWs.

Sounds bad. On purpose.

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NASTY REQUIREMENTS.

MACOS
WINDOWS
Minimum OS
10.15 Catalina
Windows 10 (64-bit)
Architecture
Apple Silicon + Intel (Universal)
x86-64, AVX2 required
Formats
VST3 + AU
VST3
CPU minimum
Intel Core i5/i7/i9 with AVX2 support.
Intel Core i5/i7/i9 with AVX2 support, or AMD Ryzen 3
CPU recommended
Apple M1+ or Intel 12th Gen
Intel 12th Gen+ / AMD Ryzen 5
RAM
4 GB min, 8 GB rec.
4 GB min, 8 GB rec.
Works in any VST3 or AU compatible DAW.
One license, up to 3 machines.
Internet required for activation only.

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Nasty Box for macOS and Windows

✓ Lifetime License & Updates ✓ Authorize on 3 Machines/License ✓ Factory Presets + Quick Start Guide
You Nasty! sticker
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