Effects
Tools for finishing your drums.
The instruments make the sound. These effects shape it once it's in your mix. Each one is free to download, and each one runs in your browser too, so you can hear it before you install anything.
LFG-FX01 · Drum bus
Pegamento
Drum bus glue compressor
VST3 · Windows 10/11, 64-bit · browser version included
Pegamento is Spanish for glue. Put it on your drum bus and it pulls the kick, snare and everything around them into one kit that sounds like it was played in the same room. Five controls, no menus to dig through.
About Pegamento
One Glue knob moves the compressor's threshold and ratio together, from a light touch that just holds the kit steady to a heavy squash. Heat adds soft tape-style saturation after the compressor, rounding off peaks without making things louder.
Mix blends the clean kit back in for parallel compression, and the Attack switch decides whether hits punch through or get tucked in. A glue meter shows how much it's working, and a level readout helps you match the volume when you compare with Bypass, so you judge the sound, not the loudness.
Try Pegamento in your browser
This is Pegamento, running right here with three built-in drum loops. Press Play, try the presets and flip Bypass on and off. You can also load your own drum loop, such as a WAV or MP3 from your computer.
Sound starts after your first click. Best on a computer with headphones or good speakers. Loops you load stay on your computer; nothing is uploaded.
Features
Five controls
- Glue: threshold and ratio on one knob, from 1.5:1 to 6:1, with automatic makeup gain
- Heat: soft saturation that adds warmth, not volume
- Mix: dry and glued blend for parallel compression
- Output: −12 to +6 dB
- Attack: fast, medium or slow
See what it's doing
- Scrolling glue meter with the gain reduction drawn over your drums
- In and out peak readouts
- Level change readout, so you can match the volume before comparing
- Bypass linked to your DAW's own on/off switch
Presets for the gallery
- Gentle Glue and Full Kit Glue for any kit
- Golpe Punch for kicks, Chasquido Snap for snares
- Cuero Warm for congas, Polvo Dust for lo-fi drums
- Parallel Smash for heavy parallel compression
In your DAW
- Every control can be automated, and settings are saved with your project
- Works in mono or stereo
- No added latency
- Six color schemes
What you get
- The Pegamento VST3 plugin
- The Pegamento browser version, a single HTML file
- Free to use in your own music, commercial releases included
Requirements
- Plugin: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a VST3 host such as Ableton Live
- Browser version: any current browser on Windows or Mac
- Install on up to three of your computers (see the license)
Pegamento
Drum bus glue compressor
More effects on the way
Pegamento is the first. Next up are more tools built for drums.
- Transient shaperMore snap or more sustain, hit by hit.
- Drum clipperLouder drums without losing the punch.
- Lo-fi toolsGrit, wobble and dust, in the spirit of Polvo.
Hear when the next one is ready
Join the Low Frequency Gallery newsletter. New effects, new instruments, updates and the occasional sale. No spam, and you can unsubscribe anytime. See the privacy policy.
