Softube Valley People Dyna-mite

Light the fuse.

In the 1800s, a Swede named Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. In the 1980s, an American named Paul Buff created Dyna-mite. Could the two have ever imagined that, someday, worlds would collide and produce the most perfectly unruly processor plug-in known to man?

Valley People Dyna-mite is a powder keg of character. And what did we do when we got it in Softube’s Swedish lab? Throw more fuel on the fire, of course. Not only is it more versatile and easier to use than ever, but now it’s bigger. We added two highly-concentrated plug-ins, based on the Dyna-mite sound and cloaked in Scandinavian style. Hit the deck—it's Dyna-mite Original, Slam, and Gate!

Legendary Processing, Full Blast

The singular sound of Frank Zappa is due, in part, to the brilliance of Paul Buff, the founder of the company that would eventually become Valley People. Buff built custom gear for Zappa, including the console used to record Zappa's early music. By the time Buff patented his TA-101 VCA, known as The Electronic Gain Control Device (and the eventual heart and soul of the Dyna-mite), in 1980, his profile had blown up.

Dyna-mite is an invaluable mega-processor for any recording or mixing application. Powerful when used for limiting and gating, it is a fireball compressor, expander, and de-esser too. It brings together several highly sought-after hardware products of its era. Hardware that would be hard to get your hands on today.

Lucky for you, our precisely-detailed and hyper-accurate model brings the sound of Dyna-mite exploding into the DAW-based modern studio. Officially licensed and approved by Valley People, Softube’s Dyna-mite plug-in trio carries with it the legacy of Zappa and Buff in every banger it helps produce.

Rock and Awe

Want drums that burst through a wall of sound and come out swinging? Dyna-mite can do wonders on kick, snare, and busy drum loops, both acoustic and electronic, but experiment with this plug-in on other sound sources, and you’re sure to be blown away.

Hit the desk!

This isn’t just a bull’s-eye emulation of the original. This is Dyna-mite in software form, with the official license and approval of Valley People to attest to it.

Attack…

With Slam, you get compression and limiting in as close to a one-knob format as Dyna-mite can offer. Start by putting it on the snare channel and really dialing in that infamous crack.

And Destroy

Fresh-faced and super-versatile, Gate simplifies gating and expanding in the DAW without sacrificing the color and character that has distinguished Dyna-mite’s sound for decades.

Dyna-mite Mk II

The original Dyna-mite hardware is famously not transparent, so the precisely-modeled plug-in is no wallflower either. Use it when you might opt for another compressor known for color and character, and you’ll be shocked at what it can do.

Dyna-mite Slam

Slam is the compressor/limiter of the original Dyna-mite. The guts are there; we just honed in on the things you want this tool to have, such as the parallel compression knob, and made it bang-on simple to interface with. For Dyna-mite, it is as close as possible to a one-knob compressor—the detonator on explosive sound.

Dyna-mite Gate

Gate is a two-in-one expander and gate. A pared-down and super-focused version of the expander-gate component of the original Dyna-mite. The auto-release circuit makes it remarkably musical, and you won’t find a gate closer to set-and-forget. The knobs may be standard, but the sound is something to celebrate. Cue the pyrotechnics.

Console 1 Ready

This plug-in can be used within Console 1, our mixing system.

This product supports Extended Features

We love VU meters, Bakelite knobs, and analog quirks. But we want modern precision and workflow. The answer? Softube Extended Features. Easy-access panels with the innovations you need close at hand.

Highlights

• Officially-licensed and developed in close collaboration with Valley People
• Three plug-ins in one: the Dyna-mite Originial, plus the target-locked Slam & Gate
• Limiting: Peak and average limiting, including negative ratio (-20:1) limiting and detector HF filtering (for De-Essing purposes)
• Expanding: Hard or soft with extreme gate settings and detector HF filtering.
• Ducking or keying: with external side chain
• Release: from 0.05 to 5 sec/20 dB with Anticipatory Release Computation (ARC) to reduce pumping
• Distortion: analog-modeled output distortion for fierce attitude and vibe
• Control: detailed dynamic oversight, quick and easy
• An expert emulation of the original hardware that gives you famous Softube sound quality and raucous Dyna-mite style
• Includes three plug-ins: Dyna-mite Original plus the new, laser-focused Gate and Slam
• Ideal for drums, but primed for earth-shattering experimentation on any sound source