bathROOMs plugin interface: reverb knobs around a hand-drawn Colombian bathroom

reverb plugin · out now

bathROOMs

Everyone sings better in the shower.

Already in real studios, right now. Pay what you want — as little as $0.

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mac (VST3/AU/AAX) · windows (VST3)

colombia · august 10 earthquake

What you pay for bathROOMs goes straight to rebuilding homes.

The August 10 earthquake destroyed more than 9,000 homes in Colombia and damaged 45,000 more.

For one month I'll hand over 100% of what the plugin brings me — through the municipal government of El Cairo, Colombia — to rebuild homes and bathrooms in the affected communities. Nothing taken out. I publish here what came in and what it did.

And I added a new room: Baldosa, a Colombian bathroom. Still pay what you want, from $0 — if you can't give anything, take it anyway.

donate and download

until september 13 · figures from colombia's ungrd, august 12

why it exists

I built the room I kept chasing.

The sound I was after only ever showed up in one place. Safe, exposed, the space holding everything up. Nothing I could buy did it.

So I built it. I mix records for a living, and this is the first thing I have made for other people to use. Five of the eight knobs shape the room itself, and most of them don’t exist on the reverb you’re using now.

Alejandro Ramírez

Ramalejo

Alejandro Ramírez, Colombian
Latin Grammy–credited mix engineer

the room controls

Not your usual reverb knobs.

position

Distance. Step back and the room closes in darker and narrower around you; step forward and it opens up and brightens. One knob doing the work of three.

surface

What the walls are made of. Hard tile keeps the highs ringing; soften it toward towels and curtain and the top end gets eaten on every pass.

slap

The slap between two parallel walls, running its own feedback loop. Tile facing itself does this. Very little else can.

wash

The balance between distinct reflections and a diffuse cloud. Pull it back and you hear the walls; push it and the room turns to vapor.

temp

Water temperature. Cold runs bright and hard, closer to tile and glass; hot runs warmer and softer, closer to steam. Same room, different mood.

more in the room

five rooms

Lavender, Porcelain, Cove, Greenhouse and Baldosa — pick the space, not just the numbers behind it.

A/B, compare and copy

Two full slots, one click to hear the difference, one click to carry a setting over.

presets, from people who actually mix

A handful of starting points from engineers I trade notes with, not a factory list. Pick one, then make it wrong in your own way.

dark mode

For 2am sessions.

sidechain

A duck-shaped ducker.

Sidechain the reverb to whatever's cutting through — your own signal or an external track — so the room ducks out of the way when it needs to, and comes back on its own.

Four controls: threshold, attack, release, ratio. Turn the ratio up for more duck, down to barely notice it's there.

BathROOMs ducker panel

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Warm on purpose.

Complete plugin suite coming.

Hot
Shower
Audio

There is nothing like a Hot Shower.

It's in real studios right now. Try it in yours.

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