Shoegaze Essentials Bundle

Your Sonic Palette for Shoegaze Music

Shoegaze, a genre known for its dreamy, ethereal, and heavily layered guitar-driven soundscapes, has captured the hearts of music enthusiasts worldwide. If you're a shoegaze musician or aspire to create the mesmerizing soundscapes that define this genre, we have great news for you! Kuassa, a renowned name in the world of music production software, presents the Kuassa Shoegaze Essentials Bundle, a tailor-made bundle that's destined to take your shoegaze compositions to new heights.

Amplifikation Matchlock

Kuassa's best Amp Simulator (Yet), American Style!

The second product from Kuassa’s 3rd gen Tube Simulation technology following the much-hyped Amplifikation Caliburn. Amplifikation Matchlock is inspired by Fender* combo amps and thanks to the 3rd gen Tube Simulation engine guarantees a more dynamic natural-sounding, realistic amp recording experience for guitarists.

Features

• 3 amp types, taken influence from Fender’s* popular amps; Twin Reverb*, Super Reverb*, Custom Vibrolux Reverb*.
• 2 channels for each amp; Clean and Boosted.
• Power amp Sag and Bias feature / Five types of cabinets / High pass and low pass filters.
• Seven types of workhorse mics: Shure* SM57, Sennheiser* MD421, Sennheiser* MD441, Shure* KSM313, Royer* R121, AKG* C414, Neumann* TLM103.
• Freely adjustable dual-miking with mono or stereo configuration, just like a real-life guitar recording session with mix option.
• Noise Gate and Limiter / Photorealistic graphics for lifelike guitar playing experience.
• Straightforward and easy to use interface / Supports up to 8x oversampling.

Learn more about Amplifikation Matchlock.

EFEKTOR FZ3603 Fuzz

The Good Old Fuzzy Woolly Distortion Box

Probably the most primitive type of distortion device. Instantly recognizable from the woolly, gritty, and compressed ‘artificial’ sound. There are five types of buzzy tone benders on the FZ3603.

Kuassa Efektor is a new line of plug-ins which consists of several of most requested effect units. The grandfather of ‘artificial’ effect units. Recognizable from its distinct sound, heavily clipped and compressed to the point where the waveform is squared, adding harsh and complex harmonics and inharmonics, almost synth-like. Select from five models of fuzzboxes:

• Big Fuzz: The gritty and woolly sustaining note
• Sustainer Fuzz: Blistering rhythm and singing leads
• Trans Fuzz: The familiar fuzzy transistor sound
• Vintage Fuzz: Modern recreation of the sound from the 60s
• Zepp Fuzz: The vintage British rock sound

Find out more about EFEKTOR FZ3603 Fuzz.

EFEKTOR DS3603 Distortion

The Red Hot Chilli for Your Tone

There are always demands for more 'gain’ - the search for the perfect distortion sound that never ends. DS3603 brings five types of massive amount of gain for demolition.

DS3603 Distortion clips the input signal by increasing the signal to maximum overload. Adding musical harmonics and overtones while still maintains the characteristics of the originalsound, or not. You choose. For heavy metal guitars or abrasive and pounding industrial drums, seek from five types of distortion:

• Lead Distortion: Ringing mids for screaming leads
• Heavy Distortion: Penetrates from mild to heavy
• Metal Distortion: Dark and thick, the solid metal gear
• Classic Distortion: Singing leads and rockin’ hard
• Pro Distortion: Fat and sharp edge for your tone

Find out more about EFECTOR DS3603 Distortion.

EFEKTOR DL3606 Delay

(((ON REPEAT)))

Delay.

It’s probably one of the most essential effects in audio effect processing, even before it was widely used in music. It all started in the 1940s, where studio engineers utilized multiple tape machines to create repeats of a signal for creative uses. Along with the advancement of technology, this particular kind of effect is still developed continuously with more features, new sounds, and modern routing possibilities. On the other hand, many players still seek classic delay sounds that can be heard on a great number of timeless records.

In the path to complete the line of Efektor pedal effects software, Kuassa present the Efektor DL3606 Delay. Efektor DL3606 brings five most desirable types of delay effect audio plugins to your DAW, complete with modulation parameter to add life and movement to the repeats or echoes.

Starting from utilizing multiple tape recorders, oil can electrostatic units, portable tape delay machines, to rack units and compact delay pedals; Kuassa Efektor DL3606 Delay provides 5 types of delay pedal effects software at your disposal:

• Digital: Clean and clear, with wide frequency range.
• Analog: Dark and mushy, inspired by the bucket brigade delay pedals
• Lo-Fi: Grainy and dirty, lower bitrate with reduced frequency range
• Tape: Simulated the warm and lush sound of vintage tape units
• Reverse: Repeats the signal backwards for ethereal and ambient effect

Learn more about EFEKTOR DL3606 Delay.

EFEKTOR RV3604 Reverb

Efektor RV3604 Reverb comes with 5 different types of versatile reverbs, found on guitar pedals used on the greatest recordings of the century. RV3604 uses simpler controls so you can create roomy ambience, surfboard crashing waves, far-reaching space, sun-over-the-clouds moments and holy-lights-from-the-sky epicness.

Reverb is the most commonly used effect on every source of every recording. It can be found anywhere from small practice amps to big touring amps. It can also be found on stompbox pedal effects to large studio rack units. Its usage can be somewhat tricky, but reverb is often the fine border between a professional's recording and a beginner’s work. Reverb is a powerful tool to add depth, distance and also to build emotion for the listener. It gives ambience, creates space, and produces a sense of three dimensional to the original sound. 

Taken the algorithms from the sounds of natural spaces to artificially created electrical and mechanical devices, Kuassa Efektor RV3604 Reverb provides five types of Reverb to enhance your recordings:

• Room: Tight and fat roomy sound.
• Hall: Big and wide concert space.
• Plate: Simulated vibrating metal plate. Grainy and unique because the low frequency propagates slower than the high freq.
• Spring: Simulating mechanical springs commonly found on guitar amps.
• Shimmer: Haunting and atmospheric reverb, created by pitch-shifting the reverb tails.

Learn more about EFEKTOR RV3604 Reverb.

EFEKTOR CH3604 Chorus

From Classic to Vast Spectrum Chorusing Effect

Recognisable from its doubling effect, this type of effect is known as a standard built-in effect from gears such as the Roland Jazz Chorus amp and also the Roland Juno synthesiser. 

Choose your favourite chorus sound from these three types:

• Dimension Chorus: Add thickness, 3-dimensional depth, and width from true analogue circuit modelling.
• Ensemble Chorus: A true classic chorusing effect with great tone. soft, deep, and rich.
• Tribunal Chorus: Big spectrum creates rich soundscapes in stereo. The sounds of multiple modulations combined together.

Learn more about EFEKTOR CH3604 Chorus.

EFEKTOR CP3603 Compressor

For Firm, Better, Well-Balanced Guitar Tracks

Completing your virtual pedalboard with our Efektor series, now introducing: KUASSA CP3603 Compressor unit. This unit is a result from the endless research of many compressor pedals, a lot of characteristics and finally, we narrowed down everything into one st unit that can represent many other compressor pedals in a straightforward package.

Compressor FX Engine

Will suppress the loudest part of the incoming audio signal, based on the specified threshold. Following the ‘compression’, it will increase the softer signal, narrowing the dynamic range thus delivers a more consistent overall level.

Guitar players. Bass players. They are the same. They love long sustaining notes. A Compressor is the one thing that should help with that desire. It is an effect that does not always sound too obvious, but when taken away, it surely will be missed. A compressor will suppress the loudest part of incoming audio signals, based on the specified threshold. Following the ‘compression’, it will increase the softer signal, narrowing the dynamic range thus delivers a more consistent overall level. And please take note, although this unit is designed specifically for guitar and bass players, you can also use it on any other instruments as well. Well, why not?

There are three types of compression style in this unit:

• VCA: Stands for “Voltage Controlled Amplifier”. It’s fast, modern, and sounds very clean. 
• FET: Stands for “Field Effect Transistor”. Known for its aggressive behaviour and also adds distinct colour to the resulting sound. 
• OPTO: Shorts for “Optical”. It has the slowest reaction but gives more characteristics and tightness to the result.

Find out more about EFEKTOR CP3603 Compressor.

EFEKTOR PH3605 Phaser

The Phase Shifter from Outer Space

Full name, Phase Shifter. Typically more subtle than flanger, but sounds like warblers coming from outer space. Often used on electric piano, and of course by guitarists such as Brian May (Queen) and Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen). 

The Efektor PH3605 Phaser provides three types of sound:

• Phase One: Mild phasing effect, great for a clean tone. Less dramatic sweep.
• Dual Phase: Warm and thick phasing sound that sounds great with distorted guitar tones. Great for many instruments such as guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals.
• Multi Phase: More intense effect. Offers more than a standard wobbling effect.

Learn more about EFEKTOR PH3605 Phaser.

Features

• 1 Amplifier and 7 FXs at a great value. 
• New Shoegaze presets.
• Includes everything you need for shoegaze, post-rock, ambient, and everything in between.
• Use it as a single plugin or in Amplifikation 360.

System Requirements

Windows:

• Windows 7 or Later (64 bit)
• Core2 Duo, or AMD Phenom ii X4 or better (latest Intel i3, AMD Ryzen, or better is recommended) with 4GB minimum RAM
• VST or VST3 compatible host/DAW
• Pro Tools 11 or later for AAX format

Mac:

• Mac OSX 10.11 or later (64 Bit).
• Core2 Duo, or better (latest Intel i3 recommended) with 4GB minimum RAM
• Native Apple Silicon Processors Compatible (M1 & M2)
• VST, VST3, or Audio Units compatible host/DAW
• Pro Tools 11 or later for AAX format