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●  Cryptid Audio — field recordings of the impossible

Sounds that
shouldn’t exist.

Boutique audio plugins with the warmth of analog and the clarity of modern software. Each one a specimen you’ve caught.

Meet AuraExplore the Field Guide
SPECIMEN 001AuraCaptured
Aura — the amber aura glowing over the EQ curve, with the opto, FET, resonance and analog modules below

Modern UX

FabFilter-grade clarity. Vector, resolution-independent, readable at a glance.

Analog warmth

The character of vintage gear — opto, FET, tape, saturation — modelled, not faked.

Honest pricing

Indie prices for bedroom-to-pro producers. No subscriptions, no nags, no iLok.

The flagship specimen/ 001

Aura

A parametric EQ wrapped around an aura. The warm, sustained core of your sound glows amber. Noise and transients stay dim and cool. You don’t read the spectrum — you watch it breathe.

  • An aura that shows what's alive, not just what's loud
  • Opto + FET compression, Mid/Side and sidechain HPF
  • Soothe-style dynamic resonance taming
  • Analog saturation across the whole strip
See Aura in fullGet it — from $49
Aura detail — the amber aura glowing over the EQ curve where the sound is alive
Fig. 1 — the aura. Amber is what’s alive, not what’s loud.
Also caught/ 02

Two more out of the woods.

Nessie — lo-fi analog plugin
Nessielo-fi analogfrom $29 →
Mothman — space echo + aura reverb plugin
Mothmanspace echo + aura reverbfrom $59 →
Field principle

The picture can’t lie. Every curve you see is drawn by the same code that processes the audio — never a separate guess. What you watch is exactly what you hear.

Most analyzers approximate. Ours is measured from the real filter, guarded by a golden test that fails the build if the display ever drifts from the sound by even a fraction of a decibel.

The bestiary/ 07

The Field Guide

A whole studio, one creature at a time. Aura, Nessie and Mothman are caught. The rest are still in the field. Collect the cryptids.

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001EQ

Aura

Parametric EQ + channel strip

An EQ with an aura. The warm, sustained core of your sound glows amber; noise and transients stay dim and cool. You don't read the spectrum — you watch it bloom.

Available nowfrom $49View →
002LOFI

Nessie

Lo-fi / vinyl analog

Crispy but buttery vinyl warmth wrapped around a crystal-clear core — the character lands on the body of the sound, and the noise dodges your transients. The lo-fi you can put on a lead vocal.

Available nowfrom $29View →
003ECHO

Mothman

Space echo + aura reverb

Tape repeats that keep coming back, with flutter and warble — and an aura reverb whose tail blooms on sustained notes and lets the noise wash away. Recurring sightings, on the beat.

Available nowfrom $59View →
004DYN

Chupacabra

FET compressor (1176-style)

Fast, vicious attack that drains the level the instant it strikes. All-buttons-in when you need it feral.

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005RES

Banshee

Dynamic resonance tamer

Finds the frequency that screams and silences it — surgically, only while it's screaming, and only the harsh part, never the musical body.

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006TAPE

Bigfoot

Tape / saturation

Big, warm, elusive analog heft. The weight you can feel but can't quite point to.

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Catch the uncatchable.

Try it free for 14 days, or grab the full strip. No account, no iLok.

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