bigBASS

bigBASS is a zero-latency low-end and harmonic enhancement chain designed to add focused weight, speaker translation, upper excitement and analogue-style attitude while staying light on CPU.

MAIN INTERFACE

A focused enhancement chain split into two main sections: LOW for weight, size and translation, and HI for shine, edge and upper harmonic movement. From subtle mix-bus confidence to heavy low-end enhancement.

• FREQ LOW, selects the low-frequency area bigBASS focuses on. Use lower settings for sub weight, or higher settings for punch, body and upper-bass pressure.
• RESO, focused low-end resonance stage. Adds a cleaner, more intentional low-end shape around the selected LOW frequency, helping the bass feel deeper and more controlled without spreading mud everywhere.
• GRIT, generated low-end harmonic branch. Adds dirty, harmonically related bass information around the selected LOW frequency, helping the low end translate on headphones, laptops, cars, phones and smaller speakers where raw sub can disappear.
• LOW DRIVE, proprietary low-end saturation stage. Pushes the focused low-frequency material into a custom saturation path designed to make the lows feel thicker, denser and more exciting without simply making them louder.
• LOW DRIVE MIX, blends the driven LOW path back into the signal. Useful for anything from subtle weight and mastering-style confidence to more obvious bass enhancement.
• FREQ HI, selects the upper-frequency area used by the HI side. It can focus anywhere from low frequencies up to 20 kHz, making the HI circuit useful for far more than just top-end shine.
• WIDTH, controls how focused or wide the HI enhancement is. Use narrower settings for precise bite or detail, and wider settings for broader excitement and movement.
• HI DRIVE, saturation stage for the selected HI frequency range. Adds brightness, edge, definition, attack, string noise, pick detail, vocal presence, drum crack, synth fizz or mix clarity.
• HI DRIVE MIX, blends the HI driven path back into the signal. Lets you add just enough upper harmonic energy without overdoing the brightness.
• OUT, set the output level.

ADVANCED PANEL

• LIMITER MODE (OFF / SAFE / AGGRO), controls the final output limiter, designed to prevent clipping at the end of the chain with a fixed final ceiling of -0.003 dB. Use SAFE for cleaner, more transparent peak control, or AGGRO for faster, more assertive limiting.
• TRAFO, transformer-like output stage. Adds subtle iron-style density, firmer low end and a more grounded hardware-like finish. Useful when the signal needs more weight, mass and attitude without becoming messy.
• PH, toggles the polarity. The button shows “PH 0” for normal polarity or it shows “PH 180” for reverse polarity (180°).
• DELAY, a time alignment tool that adjusts the signal delay in milliseconds (ms).
• HEADROOM, sets the internal headroom of the processor. It changes how hard bigBASS is driven internally, helping the chain feel cleaner, more open, thicker or more saturated while keeping gain staging easy alongside IN and OUT.
• IN, sets the input level.
• MIX, global wet/dry blend for instant parallel processing. Push bigBASS harder than you normally would, then blend the chain back until the colour, movement and density sit exactly where you want them.

SIGNAL FLOW

Input → LOW FREQ → LOW DRIVE → GRIT → RESO → HI FREQ / WIDTH → HI DRIVE → TRAFO → limiter → global Mix / Output

bigBASS is built around a simple idea: focus the low end first, decide whether it should be cleaner, thicker or dirtier, add upper harmonic life when needed, then keep the whole thing controlled at the output.