Creative Effects
ECHO BRIGADE
An analogue-modelled delay whose repeats get quieter and dirtier at once.
- Formats
- VST3 · AU · Standalone
- Operating system
- macOS · Universal
- Version
- v1.0.0
What it does
The colour lives inside the loop.
Most digital delays are linear and time-invariant, which is why their repeats are identical scaled copies, why high feedback rings metallically, and why the tail is the same colour as the source. ECHO BRIGADE breaks all three properties on purpose.
The colour lives inside the feedback loop, so it compounds — a gentle one-pole at −3 dB per pass is −24 dB by the eighth repeat. There is no repeat counter anywhere in the plugin: the loop traverses once per repeat by construction, so every “each repeat gets more of X” behaviour is implemented as “a little X, in the loop.”
The loop saturator is level-normalised, so character intensifies as the tail decays instead of fading with it. A plain saturator in a loop is driven less on every pass, making the first repeat the dirtiest and the twentieth clean — which is backwards.
Key features
Twelve character models
Built as coefficient recipes over one engine, from bucket-brigade to tape to clean digital.
Level-normalised loop saturation
Normalising the drive by the signal's own slow envelope makes every pass contribute the same proportion of harmonics — so repeats get quieter and dirtier at once.
Modulated read position
Successive repeats no longer align sample-for-sample, so the coherent reinforcement that produces metallic ring never accumulates.
Zero reported latency
The oversampler's group delay, the diffuser's length and the gap-loss filter's latency are all subtracted from the delay line read rather than reported to the host. The delay you ask for is the delay you get, and the dry path is never delayed.
Feedback past 1.0, stable by construction
Self-oscillation is stable because everything in the loop saturates and compresses — the small-signal gain exceeds one, the large-signal gain does not.
Age is mechanical, not tonal
It underbiases the tape, widens the effective head gap, increases head-to-tape spacing and adds transport drift. It also scales the between-channel component tolerance, which is why Age 0 is the mono-exact setting.
The interface
Audio
Audio demos for ECHO BRIGADE are not published yet.
We would rather show you nothing than show you a demo that was not recorded through this plugin.
Measured
DelayLabTests · 48 kHz · 128-sample blocks
- CPU, worst model
- 3.0 % of one core
- Instances per core
- 32
- Interpolator spread at 12 kHz — sinc-16
- 0.0001 dB
- Interpolator spread at 12 kHz — linear (BBD model)
- 3.0103 dB
- Aliasing, 7 kHz driven 18 dB into tanh, 2× oversampled
- −89.7 dBc
- Tape gap loss vs sinc(πfT), above −6 dB
- within 0.1 dB
- Spectral centroid, first repeat to eighth
- 1615 → 558 Hz
- Repeat interval accuracy at every delay time
- within 1 %
- auval
- passes
Figures are produced by this plugin’s own test suite and benchmark, on the hardware and sample rate named above. They are not estimates.
Technical details
- Formats
- VST3 · AU · Standalone
- Operating system
- macOS 10.13 or later
- Architecture
- Universal — Apple Silicon and Intel
- Plugin code
- Ebrg
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Latency
- 0 samples reported
- CPU
- 3.0 % of one core, worst model
Worth knowing
- The full control surface is not yet documented in the repository; the controls section will be published once it is.
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