prod. by Gabs
Plugins / CLAUSTROPHOBIA
An effect for tiny rooms.
CLAUSTROPHOBIA puts your sound in a very small room. The reflections sit so close together that you no longer hear reverb. The sound rings, flutters or warbles. The plugin is made for sound design.
Listen
One drum loop and one voice, three rooms. Switching keeps playing seamlessly and every version is level-matched, so you only hear the room. The knob glows along with the beat.
Three rooms
Born from a trick I use all the time: reverb at a tiny size, start and end all the way forward, dry/wet almost at 100%. It gives a metallic, strange texture. CLAUSTROPHOBIA turns that into an instrument of its own with three rooms.
Room I
A very fast flutter echo between two walls. The walls slowly move closer and back, so the echo drifts in pitch. The louder the signal, the duller and more compressed it sounds.
CLOSENESSDistance between the walls, from 28 ms (audible flutter) down to 1.2 ms.
Room II
Metallic and ringing, like two struck metal bars, plus dispersion and ring modulation.
TINFrom a metallic room to pure ringing with ring modulation.
Room III
Every reflection wobbles at its own speed while a filter slowly opens and closes. The tail lasts up to about 2.7 seconds.
WATERHow strong the warble and the filter are.
The controls
SQUEEZE, DECAY, the room’s own character control, LOW, HIGH and MIX. In the plugin you can also drag the black walls in the picture together with your mouse.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| SQUEEZE | How tight the room is. The tighter, the higher and more ringing. |
| DECAY | How long the room rings out. Coffin always stays short, The Well up to about 2.7 s. |
| CLOSENESS Coffin | Distance between the walls, from 28 ms (audible flutter) down to 1.2 ms. |
| TIN Red Room | From a metallic room to pure ringing with ring modulation. |
| WATER The Well | How strong the warble and the filter are. |
| LOW / HIGH | Low cut and high cut on the effect. |
| MIX | Dry/wet, 92% by default. |
0 mslatency
3rooms, each with its own control
2.7 slongest tail (The Well)
= dBautomatic level matching, room switches without clicks
CLAUSTROPHOBIA runs as VST3 on Windows. If you want it or have questions, get in touch.
[ the door only opens from the outside ]