A Dynamic Deliverance of Doom, Distortion, and Destruction
The proverbial arms race to ramp up how intensely our sounds can hit speakers and subwoofers has illuminated myriad methods of sound design. Yum Audio designed The Grater to bridge the gaps between compression necessary to tighten and punch up your sounds and the post-processing work required to give your tracks depth, dimension, and presence. Needless to say, Sweetwater engineers are quick to praise the multimodality Yum Audio has imbued in The Grater. Not only does this plug-in powerhouse boast three breakup modes, individuated compression input and output faders, and a trio of submodule effects, but a dedicated method to reintroduce the dynamic range typically lost during compression, giving you the best of both worlds. Did we mention the luminary level of collaborators tapped for building presets? For a multidimensional method of compression, distortion, sound design, and all-out sonic destruction, there’s no greater choice.
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Compression is only the beginning
You don’t devise a plug-in a slogan like “Extreme Doom Compressor” if you can’t back it up, but the minds at Yum Audio have more than vindicated this attention-grabbing descriptor, with The Grater. As a plug-in designed with intentionally over-the-top compression at its core, no effort was spared to guarantee both complete control and inspiring creativity. Every parameter is entirely and independently shapable, from the Compressor input and output levels and master Grater dry/wet blend to the constellation of sound-design tools and the Dynamic Reinject, the last of which is the secret sauce that reinvigorates your sound with the lost dynamic range, post-compression. Additionally, Breakup and Sharpness parameters give you even further tone-smashing terrain to traverse — the latter alters the attack and release behaviors of the master Grater control, while preserving more of your transients, and the former gives you three breakup modes — Smooth, Neutral, and Heavy — that capture the distinct textural elements of simulated speaker-breakup sonics.
Onboard effect submodules
What’s more, The Grater comes with a triumvirate of timbral-contouring capabilities that are individually adjusted and allow for one or all to be activated simultaneously.
- Reso Burst: A resonant bandpass filter that’s highly reactive, conjuring feedback-type tones that evoke boosted and mangled musical malice associated with synth basses that are heavily distorted.
- Pre Tonality: This submodule offers both filtering and EQ capabilities and sits in the plug-in’s chain, right between the input gain and the master Grater control. It influences the latter via specific adjustments to the 3-band EQ.
- Slice Up: Existing after both the Grater control and the Output Gain, this clipping circuit supplies a suite of sound-slicing versatility that chops and crushes any remaining transient values, with successively increasing destruction, as you crank the saturation.
Yum Audio The Grater Features:
- Multimode audio-processing plug-in gives you over-the-top compression and punchy distortion that’s tailored for producing warped, mangled, and creatively destroyed sounds and textures
- Breakup control introduces speaker-breakup-style errors in the compression process, with selectable Smooth, Neutral, and Heavy modes to further refine your output
- Sharpness modifies the master Grater behavior by altering attack and release performance, giving you fine control over how the plug-in operates, and how your transients are preserved
- Individual input and output faders for the compressor allow you to gain stage your audio with exacting precision
- Dynamic Reinject gives you detailed control over the sonic depth reintroduced to your sound, mitigating the issue of lost dynamic range that frequently accompanies aggressive compression
- 3 submodule effects — Reso Burst, Pre Tonality, and Slice Up —provide prismatic and potent possibilities for imaginative and advanced sonic destruction
- 136 onboard presets were meticulously crafted in collaboration with Mick Gordon, Eddie Grey, Konrad OldMoney, Tushar Apte, Christal Jerez, and HydraTek