The NanoFlux stopped guessing.
Back in September we told you something Nano was cooking. This week it got serious: we put the real NanoVerb (unofficial) on the bench next to our plugin and made them sing the same songs — guitar, vocals, drums, an organ — then compared every recording side by side until the differences ran out.
All four of its programs now come from those measurements instead of our best guess:
- Chorus — the real sweep, the real width, and the slightly dark top end you get from a little box doing its best.
- Flange — that hot, resonant jet, at the level the hardware actually runs it.
- Non-Linear — the classic gated-reverb burst: it swells, holds, and slams shut. Turn the knob and the gate gets longer, just like the unit.
- Rotary — a spinning-speaker effect with a quick kick up to fast and a lazy coast back down to slow, because that's exactly what the hardware does.
And because we're us, the Pawn Shop switch picked up one more real-world wart: our unit's right channel runs a hair hotter than its left. So now yours can too.
A happy accident
While testing the rotary on drum overheads, we stopped working and just listened for a while. Cymbals through a slow spinning speaker turn into this shimmering, swirling wash — and kicking it to fast for a chorus is a great lift. So that's going in as a preset.
Presets for everyone
Speaking of presets: The Room is getting its first set — drum rooms, vocal spaces, guitar amps, and a few big-hall ambiences — built entirely on the rooms that come with the free download. The Overhead(s)' presets are now sorted into tidy groups, and every plugin's preset menu finally looks the same. Those arrive with each plugin's next update — and they're just the start. More presets are on the way across the whole lineup, the NanoFlux included.
Behind the scenes
We built ourselves a new listening tool for all that side-by-side work — it plays a track through the plugin and the hardware at the same time and records both, perfectly lined up. It's how we hear the small stuff.
That's the week. The modeling on the NanoFlux has come a long way — from an educated guess at what the little box does to something we can hold up next to the real one, program by program, and hear it hold its own. It isn't out yet, but it's a lot closer to the real thing than it was on Monday, and it sounds like it.
Thanks for listening.