flakebelly

The plugins I’ve been building, fBox, are now on Mac: VST3 and AU, native on Apple Silicon. One licence covers Mac and Windows, and every plugin has a 14-day free trial, one click, no email. fboxaudio.com/downloads #AudioPlugins #Mac #HomeStudio #Apple #AppleMac #VST3 #AU

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youtu.befBox Console Walkthrough // Virtual Analogue 32-Channel Mixing Console Plugin with Tape MachineYouTube video by fBox

fBox Console: a 32-channel virtual analogue mixing console plugin with a 16-track tape machine built in. Full walkthrough: youtu.be/SZuFw-j3lWU Free 14-day trial: fboxaudio.com/downloads #AudioPlugin #MusicProduction #Mixing

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fBox Rack: up to eight VST3 plugins inside an analogue modelled console channel and mix bus. Mac and Windows. Full walkthrough: youtu.be/h-CZuBhwowQ Free 14-day trial: fboxaudio.com/downloads #AudioPlugins #Mixing

Black November starts Monday: 50% off every fBox plugin and bundle, 26 October to 30 November. Compressor, EQ, preamp, saturation, tape, modulation, reverb, delay, a drone synth and a mixing console. Mac and Windows. Free 14-day trials: fboxaudio.com #AudioPlugins #MusicProduction

Today's foot-drumming, electric guitar strumming, slapback vocal humming, bit of tomfoolery. I don't practice performing, I mean like ever, so you'll have to excuse me being crap. #music #livemusic #singersongwriter

Tape-warbly, out of tune, out of time, improvised blues with a dash of Dylan, slapback vocals and a whole lot of abuse for the electric guitar’s thin little strings, from a mainly acoustic player. Mixed, of course, with @fboxaudio.bsky.social plugins. #Blues #HomeRecording #IndieMusic

Greetings friends! This one’s fVerb, eight analogue modelled reverbs in one plugin: Room, Hall, Plate, Spring, Chamber, Shimmer, Nonlinear and Lo-Fi Ducking on every mode, so you can use a big tail and still hear every word 14 days free. fboxaudio.com/plugins/verb #Reverb #VSTPlugins #HomeStudio

Greetings friends! This one’s fTape, six analogue modelled tape machines in one plugin, from a cassette deck to a 2 inch studio machine. Turn the wow up and the Mix knob becomes a tape phaser against your dry signal. 14 days free fboxaudio.com/plugins/tape #TapeSaturation #VSTPlugins #HomeStudio

Greetings friends! This one’s fSat, eight analogue modelled saturators in one plugin. Silk adds weight, Glow adds warmth, Rect throws an octave on top, Fuzz never cleans up. Every unit has its own serial. 14 days free, one click. fboxaudio.com/plugins/sat #Saturation #VSTPlugins #HomeStudio

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Meet fPre: six analogue-modelled preamps in one plugin. You drive the gain and the circuit decides the rest. Tube gets thicker, British compresses, Germanium drifts like real old transistors. 14 days free, no email: fboxaudio.com/plugins/pre #flakebelly #musicproduction #homestudio

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My first cover was a lofi mostly acoustic version mixed by @flakebelly.bsky.social at Flaming Jangle. That sounds like this: tinyurl.com/562pdk5v When @marcjacksonvotra.bsky.social heard this version, he thought it would be cool to add bass and a drum kit and create a fun 1960s version. So I did!

neverthebridle.bandcamp.comProblems (cover version), by Never the Bridletrack by Never the Bridle

fBox 1.0.1 is out, free for the whole range. The thing I'm most proud of: blend fTape below 100% Mix with Wow/Fltr up and it becomes a tape phaser, going from phaser to flange to chorus. 14 days free, no email: fboxaudio.com #flakebelly #musicproduction #homestudio

Greetings friends! fMod is eight modulation effects in one plugin, from chorus to rotary to ring mod. Analogue modelled, and every one you open is its own unit. Trial is one click, no email. fboxaudio.com/plugins/mod #MusicProduction #HomeStudio #Mixing

Greetings friends! fEq is six EQs in one plugin, each its own analogue modelled machine. One removes, one flatters, one pushes back when you push it. Trial is one click, no email. fboxaudio.com/plugins/eq #MusicProduction #HomeStudio #Mixing

Greetings friends! Starting an fBox trial is now one click. Load any plugin, click Start 14-Day Free Trial, and you're in. No email, no code, no card. Every one is its own analogue modelled unit. fBoxAudio.com/downloads #MusicProduction #HomeStudio #Mixing

Here today we have Bodysnatch Pirates from my C-PTSD album. flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/c-ptsd This song was made in one day, from start to finish. I have no idea what style of music it is. Who cares? I like the songs that tumble out like this, fully formed. #music #indie #hiphop #electronic

Greetings friends! This one's fBox Rack. A plugin host, but with a preamp, mix bus and console stage built round the slots, so empty it's a complete analogue channel strip. fboxaudio.com/plugins/rack #MusicProduction #HomeStudio #Mixing

Clean, Warm, Hot or Valve on the way in. Summing, bus EQ, bus compression and saturation in the middle. Five console colours on the way out. Every rack mints its own serial and that sets its character, so mine isn't yours.

14 days free if you fancy a go. Load it up, put your email in on the activation screen, and a six-digit code comes back to start the trial. No card needed.

I built a delay, which is a daft thing to do in 2026. Everyone's got twelve. But most of them repeat your sound and turn it down. The gear I own doesn't do that: every repeat goes back through the machine and comes back darker, grittier, slightly out of tune. fboxaudio.com/plugins/delay #plugin

So fDelay is eight machines instead of eight presets. Tape that thickens every pass. A bucket-brigade chain that drops a bit more at each hand-off. An oil can that drifts and never repeats the same way twice. 14 days free if you fancy a go. Email in, six-digit code back, that's it. #vst3 #delay

Greetings friends! Sound on. This is fDrone, a drone synth, signal mangler and ring modulator I built, making an evolving drone sound from nothing. Every one you open has its own serial number, so each is a different machine. Free for 14 days, no card. fboxaudio.com/plugins/drone #plugin #drone

Of What's Been Lost from C-PTSD. A relatively simple tune compared to the rest. I thought I'd push the vocals pretty loud on this one, just for the crack. I have no idea why I'm singing like that; it just kind of happened. flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/c-ptsd #music #indie #electronic

Greetings friends! I made a thing! fBox is my virtual analogue studio. fComp: nine compressors in one plugin, and not one of them is digital. Nine separate engines, not nine presets. Free for 14 days, no card or account. fboxaudio.com/plugins/comp #mixing

Another track from my last album, C-PTSD. This is Solipsism. It's mysterious, it's marvellous, it's only on Bandcamp or Subvert This is my Genesis. My Popol Vuh. My creation myth. My philosophy of mind & matter. flakebelly.bandcamp.com/track/solips... www.subvert.fm/flakebelly/c... #music #indie

Greetings friends! I made a thing! fBox is my virtual analogue studio. fBox Console: a 32-channel analogue-modelled mixing desk with its own 16-track tape machine. Mix in your DAW, or standalone with no DAW. Free for 14 days, no card or account. fboxaudio.com/plugins/cons... #mixing

22 Sept

Today we have Impulse Control from my C-PTSD album. Available as always, only on Bandcamp & Subvert. Who needs those streaming schmucks anyways? flakebelly.bandcamp.com/track/impuls... www.subvert.fm/flakebelly/c... #music #hiphop #electronic #indie #funk

22 Sept

Greetings friends! I made a thing! fBox is my virtual analogue studio. fBox Rack: up to 8 VST3 plugins run through an analogue-modelled console channel, for the warmth and glue of a real desk. Free for 14 days, no card or account. Windows VST3: fboxaudio.com/plugins/rack #music #plugin #vst3

21 Sept

Before I paved my Hebridean valley with silicon and kick-started a tech revolution (all true), I also made music. Anhedonia, from C-PTSD. Drums through an '80s Tascam, mastered hard to tape on my Revox A77. It has hair on its chest. flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/c-ptsd #music #indie #artrock

21 Sept

Greetings friends! I made a drone machine that falls apart on purpose, if you want it to. Each copy can be a different instrument. Free for 14 days: no card or account, no mailing list unless you join. Just an email code. Windows VST3: fboxaudio.com/plugins/drone #dronesound #ambientnoise

20 Sept

When did you last check your mix in mono? It's the easiest check to forget, so I put it in a meter. fMeter tells you in one word if your mix HOLDS UP, THINS OUT or COLLAPSES. Free forever. Windows only for now. fboxaudio.com/downloads.html#fmeter #monocheck #selfproduced

19 Sept

Weekend plans? Make some noise with gear you haven't paid for. I built fBox, a virtual analogue studio: a console, a rack and nine plugins, and every instance has its own sound. Full 14-day trials, no card, nothing to cancel. Windows VST3: fboxaudio.com/downloads.html

18 Sept

I made a free audio metering plugin. fMeter is free. No licence, no key, no trial, no machine limit, and it does not expire. VU and PPM needles, sample peak, true peak, a phase scope and a loudness chart. Windows VST3. Made by me @fboxaudio.bsky.social fboxaudio.com/downloads #music #audio

18 Sept

There is a second program in there too, for measuring finished files rather than a live signal. Drop a whole album in and read the loudness column top to bottom. It also sums to mono and tells you what disappears when it does. Holds up, thins out, or collapses.

17 Sept

This is what I have been doing instead of releasing music. fBox. Twelve VST3 plugins for Windows. Nine processors, a 32-channel mixing console, a modular rack and a metering suite. It is finally out. fboxaudio.com @fboxaudio.bsky.social #music #audio #plugins

17 Sept

The idea behind it: every instance you open is minted with its own serial number and its own character. Set two compressors identically and one grabs a snare faster while the other lets the transient breathe. 14-day free trials on everything. The metering suite is free permanently.

1. Hi. I'm flakebelly. A musician. Rapper. CEO, CFO, BFF, VPL, Edgelord, Looksmaxxer and Entrepreneur. Here's a bit of #music that tumbled out from between me ears. #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #indie #artrock #electronic

It's name is A Balloon Man and it's from my album C-PTSD. Here you can both see & hear me jamming about, coming up with the intial idea, then a glorious slice of the final song.

flakebelly.bandcamp.comC-PTSD, by flakebelly11 track album

Because it's Bandcamp Friday if you visit my Bandcamp page and have a listen to the album I might just very much appreciate that and you: flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/c-ptsd Cheers very muchly #music #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #indie #electronic #artrock #cptsd #ptsd #experimentalmusic

flakebelly.bandcamp.comC-PTSD, by flakebelly11 track album

Before I was a plugin billionaire, I also made #music. Here, in honour of #Bandcamp Friday, is some of that music. An #album by the name of C-PTSD. "A woven tapestry of musically performed samples, reminiscent of J Dilla, with touches of disarmingly honest songwriting." Said one feller.

25 Aug

As we inch closer to the launch of my fBox plugin suite, the mailing list is now open, if that's your kind of thing. fboxaudio.com/join fBox: A virtual analogue studio, built by one person on a Scottish island Coming soon: @fboxaudio.bsky.social #audioproduction #vst #music #plugin #audiosoftware

youtube.comfBoxThe analogue studio. Reimagined in software. fBox is a virtual analogue studio ecosystem - VST3 plugins and console environment built for producers and engineers who demand the real thing. Coming s...

15 Aug

Can ask a favour if anyone likes the sound of home-made, analogue-modelled #audio #plugins & if YouTube is your thing & if you'd like to lend me a hand, subscribing to my fBox #YouTube channel, as I gear up for a glorious release day will surely mean I'll love you forever. www.youtube.com/@fBoxAudio

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13 Aug

fBox Console. Making things gnarly and glued. A full mix through the tape machine. fEq and fSat on the master bus. Part of the fBox Universe. Made by @flakebelly.bsky.social Coming soon. #audioproduction #analogmodeled #music #mixingengineer #vstplugins #sounddesign

13 Aug

fBox Console. Making things gnarly and glued. A full mix through the tape machine. fEq and fSat on the master bus. Part of the fBox Universe. Made by me @fboxaudio.bsky.social Coming soon. #audioproduction #analogmodeled #music #mixingengineer #vstplugins #sounddesign

7 Aug

Reached a massive milestone with the @fboxaudio.bsky.social plugins. Taking the weekend off after a few months of 20hr sessions. Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk half-speed master on vinyl. The weekend begins now!

30 July

Hi! I've been making some Windows-based audio plugins. I'm now looking for some kindly folks to do some Beta testing. Have a play about and see what happens. Probably in the next week or so. If interested, reply or message me. And if not, repost anyway and help a brother out! Ta very muchly.

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29 July

fDrone takes a clean, smooth drone and mangles it into a glitchy, untamed beast - running as a channel insert on the fBox Console, pushed through the tape machine for analogue-modelled grit. Turn a static tone into something alive. Made by @flakebelly.bsky.social - coming soon.

29 July

28 July

fDrone on the fBox Console: a clean drone mangled into a glitchy, untamed beast, pushed through the tape machine for analogue-modelled grit. Make it sound as bad as you can. Part of the fBox Universe @fboxaudio.bsky.social Made by me - coming soon. #sounddesign #ambient #vstplugin #dronemusic

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