@maruPlosive Repair Lab
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Plosive Repair Lab

Catch low-frequency bursts and hear what you remove.

@maru shared this effect so you can play it in your DAW, remix it or put it on your site.

What it does

A stereo effect that tames low-frequency bursts in recorded voices: the thump of a hard "p" or "b", a handling knock or a gust of wind on the mic. It turns down only the low band, only while a burst is happening, and lets you listen to exactly what it takes away.

The idea

A plosive is mostly energy below a few hundred hertz that arrives suddenly. Plosive Repair Lab splits off that low band, watches for it to jump in level, and reduces it for as long as the burst lasts. Everything above the band passes untouched. Because the removed part is simply subtracted from your signal, you can solo it and hear whether the repair is taking only the pop or some of the voice too.

Guide and controls

How it works.

A one-pole low-pass extracts a low band from each channel. A linked stereo detector controls band attenuation, capped by Amount, and the reduced portion is subtracted from the original signal. Auto uses fast attack and adjustable release, with optional transient gating; Manual uses a fixed reduction.

Processed and Removed sum back to the input. During playback, the solid response curve follows the current Processor gain and filter coefficient; without fresh telemetry it shows a labeled idle model. Auto's Processed and Removed views also show a dashed bound for the maximum selected reduction. There is no lookahead, so the beginning of a burst can pass before detection responds.

What would you make with Plosive Repair Lab?

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Prototype

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Parametric EQ

Six bands, a curve you can drag, and a bit-exact bypass.

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