Recording ants Noisebud, 2012, September 27 Sol’s ventures in a world full of sound keep taking us to strange places with strange missions at hand. Last weekend we went out to the woods with a mission to record ants doing their thing in castle de Anthill. We tried several different microphones, most of them turned out too noisy for recording those small little legs running around making micro sounds far below audible db’s. So far (because Sol is not done before she is done) our own DIY Anthill microphone gained the best result. It’s two contact mics glued onto a pencil, perfect to stick into the anthill with minimal damage to the ants precious home (sorry ants, hope your new status as sound stars is enough compensation). [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/61380645″ iframe=”true” /] Blog
A tip for Mac users 2012, December 29 We get a lot of Mac versions requests of our VST’s. We decided long ago that we won’t put in the time needed to compile for Mac since we make plugins that we need our self’s and not to satisfy others (we use PC’s). At first we made them available since our… Read More
Pinky 2 2026, July 162026, July 19 The first version of Pinky was released as an early beta many years ago. I never developed it further, but a surprising number of people kept using it. I did too. There was clearly something useful in the idea. Pinky could make a small but meaningful difference to the overall… Read More
Buhdist 1.0 2022, August 302025, May 27 Buhdist is a plugin that I’ve been working on for quite some time, the actual distortion algorithm is a couple of years old but right before this summer, I decided to start cooking up a GUI and add some functionality to make it usable as a plugin. AmountThis one is… Read More