BSA Drum Bundle

Get the Very Best from Your Drums

Sort your snares, tame your toms, control your kicks, and simplify your cymbals – Black Salt Audio’s BSA Drum Bundle is here to help you gain full control over your percussion, with three specialised plugins designed to bring out the absolute best sound possible from your drums.

Containing a one-dial combined compression/saturation/distortion plugin, a high-quality gate built specifically around curtailing cymbal bleed from your mixes, and an ‘all in one tool’ to sit on your drum bus channel, this bundle really could be the answer to all of your drum processing woes.

Bundle Contents

• Escalator
• Silencer
• Drum Bus

Escalator

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Instant Energy, Depth & Character

Escalator is a combination of compression, saturation & distortion that allows you to quickly color your sound with a variety of flavors. It’s a one-knob plugin that instantly adds depth, weight and size to your mix. 

Warmth & Body

Escalator will add some light saturation that will add more body and thickness to your sounds.

Character & Depth

Escalator will start to introduce some compression and gentle distortion. This is great for adding some character and depth to your signal.

Destruction

Escalator will start to introduce a clipping distortion to your signal. Great for making your sounds cut through the mix without them getting too harsh.

Learn more about Escalator.

Silencer

Cymbal bleed is the enemy of great drum mixes. Traditional gates can only help so much before the gating itself becomes obvious. Silencer is the ultimate solution, eliminating cymbal bleed while preserving the integrity of your original sound. It’s not just a gate… it will forever change the way you mix drums.

More Than Just A Gate

Unlike a traditional gate that simply reduces volume, Silencer incorporates a transparent & musical sounding gate with an advanced de-bleeding circuit. This allows you to kill all of the nasty high-frequency bleed while preserving the attack, tone and body of the original sound.

Get 2x From Your Drums

For decades, mixers have had to rely on samples and compromise their live drum mixes because of bleed. With Silencer, all that nasty bleed will disappear – so go ahead and crank that EQ, saturation and compression twice as much as before. It’s so good that your live drum tracks will sound as clean as drum samples.

Intuitive Controls, Extreme Precision

With dedicated processing for Snare Top, Snare Bottom, Kick and Toms, Silencer intelligently filters out other parts of the kit to avoid mis-triggers. Its true lookahead means the transients you want always get through undamaged. The visualizer and simplified interface allow you to dial in your de-bleeded drum track in seconds.

Features

• Unique De-Bleed circuitry, absent in conventional gates, allows precise and natural gating across the frequency spectrum.
• Multiple predefined drum modes, ensure instant adaptability to any audio material.
• The DeBleed circuit is meticulously tuned by ear, delivering a natural high-end sound that blends seamlessly into any mix.
• The mode-dependent lookahead behavior ensures that no transient snap or attack goes unnoticed.
• Fine-tuned Gate Decay curve allows for gated drums that decay naturally at any length.
• Ghost Note toggle for easy automation, allowing ghost notes to pass through even when below the threshold.
• Precise Waveform Visualizer that provides a clear visual context for setting the Gating Threshold per Mode, allow for quick mix decisions.
• Sidechain Support so the plugin can react based on inputs from various sidechain sources, unlocking a world of flexibility and creative mixing potential.
• User-adjustable Reduction amount to either mute gated material entirely or blend it in to achieve the desired sound.

Learn more about Silencer.

Drum Bus

The all-in-one tool for massive drums

More Punch, Glue, Power and Clarity for your drums – all in one plugin.

Top mixers know the secret to a competitive drum mix lies in the perfect blend of bus compression, parallel processing, saturation, and EQ. Black Salt Audio have distilled decades of pro-level techniques into one ultra-simple plugin that delivers the punch, energy, and edge your drums need to stand out.

Simplified Drum Compression

At the heart of BSA Drum Bus lies simplicity and power, designed to energize & glue your drums with just a few controls. They’ve already dialled in the time-tested compression settings for modern drums, so you can add punch, warmth and tightness in seconds without worrying about ratios or milliseconds.

Two Precise Modes

Standard mode offers a clean, transparent compression that tightens your drum mix and creates cohesion and glue across your drum bus. Slammed mode delivers aggressive, in-your-face compression to achieve that punchy, larger-than-life drum sound you’ve heard on your favorite records. Perfect for your parallel drum bus.

Auto Gain

Auto Gain built in to each control for easy A/B’ing and no wasted time.

Color Your Drums

Fine-tune and shape your drum tone with the TONE and SALT controls. Use the Tone knob to go brighter and more present, or smoother and warmer. The Salt control adds flavor to your drums, subtly enhancing key frequencies that add power, clarity, and punch to any drum bus.

Saturation Tailored for Bigger Drums

The heat control adds tasteful saturation, enriching your drums with fitting harmonic content depending on which mode you’re in. Heat in STANDARD mode adds warmth and fullness. In SLAMMED mode, it adds grit and edge.

Learn more about Drum Bus.

System Requirements

Mac

• Mac OS X 10.11 or higher
• At least 200 MB of free drive space
• AAX, AU, VST3 versions

PC

• Windows 10
• At least 200 MB of free drive space
• AAX, VST3 versions