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Studies

Rust

Chromium & Iron Oxide Resonator

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Description

Rust is a hybrid metallic resonator and vintage analog aging effect. It combines a resonant filter, a “ball-within-the-box” physically modeled space and Puremagnetik's analog age effect from Driftmaker and Verv. Essentially, there are two signal chains in series: Iron Oxide (Rust) and Chromium (Analog Tape).

Rust can make anything sound old and squeaky, time-worn with wow and flutter, or completely lost in time (hint: turn all the controls up!). We included a few presets to get you started, but Rust should really be tuned to the audio you feed it with the METAL control. You can use either chain on its own: turn RUST down for only the tape effects, or FLUX and DUST down for only the metal.

Rust in the Handbook

Signal path

Iron Oxide comes first. Your input goes through a resonant band-pass filter that MOTION sweeps and into the physically modeled metal space, and RUST mixes that against your clean input. Chromium then plays the result back through a short tape loop with wow and flutter, crackle and hiss. SPACE sends the aged sound to a reverb on top, and BLEND sets it all against your dry input.

  1. Motion sweep

    MOTION
    Sets the speed of a slow LFO that pulls the METAL frequency down by up to 100 Hz and back, twice per cycle. It goes from almost still up to one cycle a second.

  2. Flux drift

    FLUX
    Sets the wow and flutter. As the tape loop plays back, its pitch drifts down and slides to a new random amount about once a second. Fully up it drifts by up to about a quarter of a semitone, and at zero the tape runs steady.

  3. Metal resonator

    METAL
    Sets the center of the resonant band-pass filter, from 100 Hz to 1.1 kHz, and widens the band from 100 to 300 Hz as it rises. Tune it to the audio you feed it. You hear it only as far as RUST lets the metal in.

  4. Metal rooms

    RUST
    Mixes the resonator and its physically modeled space against your clean input. At zero the Iron Oxide chain is out and you hear only the tape effects.

  5. Tape loop

    DUST
    Adds analog crackle and hiss. Turning it up makes the crackles louder and more frequent, up to about two a second.

  6. Space reverb

    SPACE
    Sends the aged sound to a long algorithmic reverb, which is added on top. With RUST, FLUX and DUST all down, it works as a plain reverb.

  7. Master

    BLEND
    Fades from your dry input to Rust's output. It starts fully up.
    GAIN
    Sets the output level, from silent up to double. Noon is unity.

Try thisSet RUST about halfway and sweep METAL slowly until it catches the part of your sound you want to rust. Then set MOTION low so the resonance drifts around that spot, and add a little FLUX.

Demo
This video shows the standalone plugin.
Good to know

In Studies

Rust is in Studies Effects, under Glitch and Modifier.

Standalone

The standalone plugin, shown further down the page, has no BLEND or GAIN. Both are new in Studies.

Bundle

The standalone plugin is also part of Decimation Tools Vol. 1.

Formats
Studies: Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
Systems
Current macOS and Windows 10/11 x64
Rust | Chromium & Iron Oxide Resonator

Standalone version

The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.

AU · VST2 · VST3 · macOS · Windows