Speakers

Microphone and Speaker Simulations

Speakers - Microphone and Speaker Simulations Plugin - GUI

Microphones and Speakers

Speakers is a plugin effect designed to emulate a wide range of loudspeakers and microphones using our state-of-the-art convolution engine.

Shape any sound like it’s being played by an old telephone, radio, or classic cabinet; or shape it like it’s being recorded by a vintage ribbon microphone or even a toy recorder.

Speakers features a freely configurable effects chain, comprising compression, distortion, and filtering, as well as an array of looping background noises for setting the sound in a variety of environments.

Speakers is a zero-latency* post-production dream plugin. No iLok or any other dongle required!

Speakers is available for MAC, PC, and LINUX (VST, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP, 64-bit only), and also as AUv3 and Standalone on the App Store.

Speakers features:

  • 61 speakers: cabinets, devices, phones, radios, speakers, toys
  • 42 microphones: condensers, dynamics, phones, ribbons, and more
  • 18 distortion/degradation algorithms: from carbon mic overdrive to GSM interference
  • 42 background noises: devices, places, organic, and more

Selection of Speakers’ IR Collection

TV Emulation Plugin - Speakers
TV 1
Sony Trinitron CRT Impulse Response
TV 2
Vintage Telephone (1960) Effect Plugin- Speakers
Telephone (1960)
Italian Telephone (1970) Emulation - Speakers
Telephone (1970)
Speaker Model - Speakers
Speaker
Apple II Speaker Impulse Response
Apple II
Megaphone Microphone and Speaker Emulation Plugin
Megaphone
library of congress c1 cassette player impulse response
Tape Player
Vintage Tape Recorder Plugin
Tape Recorder
Radio (big) Emulation Effect - Speakers
Radio 1
Radio (small) Impulse Response - Speakers
Radio 2
Small Radio Plugin
Radio 3
Speak And Spell IR Plugin Effect
Speak & Spell
Toy Recorder Speaker Effect Plugin
Toy Recorder
LOMO Mic IR
Vintage Mic
Sony 510C Microphone IR
Vintage Mic
SM58 IR Microphone
SM58
SM57 IR Microphone
SM57
CB Radio Microphone Impulse Response
CB Radio Mic
Talk Back Microphone Effect Plugin
Talk Back Mic
Toy Recorder Microphone Effect Plugin
Toy Mic

Full list of Speakers and Microphones

Routing

The Routing panel enables limitless reordering of Speakers’ signal flow. To move a module, simply drag it left or right. The Input module marks the point at which the source signal enters the signal path, disregarding everything to the left. This can be useful for, for example, having the Noise pass through certain modules prior to being joined by the input signal further down the path.

Speakers Routing - Speaker, Microphone, Distortion, Compressor, Filter, Noise
  • Rearrange the modules with a simple drag and drop
  • Disable a module with CMD or CTRL + Click.
  • Change the Input position, make sure the lock is open by clicking on it.
Speakers - EQ - Equalizer with Analyzer

Equalizers

Clicking the spanner button at the top left of either panel reveals a five-band EQ – low and high shelves and three parametric bands – for shaping the frequency response of the Microphone and Speaker emulations.

Drag the nodes around to set band frequencies and gains, scroll the mousewheel over a node to tweak the Q, double click to reset the band.

Distortion / Degradation

Speakers features 15 distortion and degradation algorithms for post-production and sound design.

Distortion: Carbon Mic, Classic Drive, Diode Clipper, Foldover, Soft Drive, Tape, Valve.

Degradation: Bit Crusher, Clicks, Drops, GSM, Interference, Quantization, Radio Gate, Robotization, Telecom, VoIP (by Lese Audio Technologies), Warble.

Speakers Distortion and Degradation Algorithm Icons: Valve, Tape, Bit Crusher

Also available on iOS

Speakers is available for iPhone and iPad on the App Store, as a AUv3 plugin and Standalone (IAA).

Speakers Demo

Try Speakers for free with some limitations: limited selections of speakers and microphones, silence for 3 seconds every 2 minutes, saving disabled.

It’s not possible to authorize the demo version, you’ll find the full version installer in your user area.

macOS

Requires macOS 10.13 or higher
AU, VST2, VST3, AAX, CLAP (64bit only)

Windows

Requires Windows 7 or higher
VST2, VST3, AAX, CLAP (64bit only)

Linux

Requires Ubuntu 20.04 or newer
VST2, VST3, CLAP (64bit only)

Specifications

  • 57 Speakers
  • 42 Microphones
  • 18 Distortion/degradation algorithms
  • 42 Background noises (190MB)
  • EQ, Compressor, Multimode Filter
  • Flexible Routing
  • Zero Latency* / Ultra Low CPU
  • Resizable Window
  • Preset system with randomizer

Download the Manual (PDF)

System Requirements

 Windows 7 – 11
2GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
VST2, VST3, AAX, CLAP (64-bit)

 macOS 10.13 – macOS 13
2GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP (64-bit)
Universal 2 Binary

 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
2GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
VST2, VST3, CLAP (64-bit)

Copy Protection

To activate your plugin you can choose between Online and Offline authorization.
Create an account, log in through the plugin to activate, or download your license file for offline activation.

Activation

1 license up to 3 computers

No iLok

We don’t like dongles

No Internet

No connection required to activate

Changelog

*Speakers features our state-of-the-art convolution engine with zero latency. However, some degradation algorithms will introduce some latency (based on the FFT size parameter or other parameters).

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