The Ultimate Full Spectrum Audio Sweetener
Designed by a team of award winning engineers to offer their most useful and most essential harmonic enhancement techniques in one centralized plugin.
The resulting color palette is a fast lane to pro-sounding records.
This full spectrum enhancer will add punch, thickness, depth, warmth, edge and grit to all your tracks.
The Ultimate Full Spectrum Enhancer
4 Faders, 8 Colors
Select a color. Push a fader.
3 Types of Saturation
A Unique Jog Wheel Control
Linear Phase Filters
Designed to be the Perfect Enhancer. Listen for yourself.
All before/after examples explained
- Bass 1
- Bass is a difficult instrument to place in the mix. Often is does not read well and you’re stuck with it being too loud or too soft. Sugar’s LOW and MID sections were designed in part to help with that. The DRIVE circuit is also very useful to bring out harmonics and help the bass cut through. In this example you can immediately hear how the LOW section creates a pillow at the bottom and how the saturation brings the harmonics up. It also adds a cool buzz to the track which will help the bass cut through the mix without having to be pushed up.
- Bass 2
- Electric basses have a tendency to sound thin in context of a fat mix. Adding EQ does not help. Sugar does. In this example the bass harmonic content is brought forward by the saturation circuit of Sugar and will allow the bass to hold its own without having to compress or EQ.
- Drum set
- The parallel processing structure of Sugar’s harmonic enhancers is perfect to beef up drums and percussions. Just raise the sections that feel lie they are lacking or (secret trick) just raise all four sections with the big knob until the drums come to life. In this example, you can hear how Sugar fattens the bass drum and opens the snare drum up as if they were processed by a bunch of plugins, but only Sugar is used.
- Floor tom
- Real tones are one of the most difficult instruments to capture. They often sound think and clicky. IN this example Sugar helps transform this decent tom track to something that sounds like it was enhanced with a sample. But it’s only Sugar.
- Guitar 1
- Sugar is great for enhancing boring guitar tones. The saturation circuits are particularly useful in that respect. In this is example the Drive circuits helps this amped guitar feel more special and have more crunch. It’ll sit much better in the mix this way.
- Guitar 2
- Often when tracking a band, the guitar tone seems perfect but then at mixing time you realize that it's too dull or too bland. Sugar’s processes provide easy access to vibe and presence. In this example you can hear how this basic part gets thickened by the WARM circuit and then driven by the Saturation circuit to bring it forward and sound more like it did in the room.
- Guitar DI
- Lots of sessions have guitar DIs that were recorded ‘for safety’. And then had way through the mix you realize that the ‘safety’ is your only hope. Sugar is great to bring out the original intent of guitar sounds by adding more grit and filling the blank in the spectrum. In this example the DI is post pedal but has no vibe and is rather dull. Sugar brings out the high end and distorts the tracks to make it stand out.
- Kick in 1
- Sugar is very useful for bass drums. The LOW section particularly has been tuned to fill the gap and fatten kicks in ways that other plugins cannot do. In this example you can hear how a simple D112 mic inside a standard 24’’ acoustic bass drum gets turned into a sound that can be used as the main kick for a finished track.
- Kick 808
- 808s kicks are everywhere and they are hard to pull off. Samples are often clicks and too lean. Nowhere near the original sound. In this example Sugar is used to fatten the sample and soften the click so the 808 sound a lot closer to the real thing and is useable as a main kick for a hip hop or pop track.
- Mix bus 1
- On Mix Bus Sugar is a great way to open the top and extend the bottom of the whole mix without unwanted artifacts. In this example, focus on the lead vocal and the bass tones when A/Bing. Notice how the mix gets taller and fatter but the balances stay the same. Using Sugar only.
- Mix bus 2
- On Mix Bus Sugar is a great way to open the top and extend the bottom of the whole mix without unwanted artifacts. In this example, notice how Sugar is able to add a whole layer of bottom end to the mix without changing the balance or creating unwanted peaks. Only Sugar was used here like in all other examples in this player.
- Snare 1
- Sugar excels on percussions instruments because it lets you bring out the desirable part fo the signal without creating artifacts. In this example you can hear how the snare drum goes from the regular SM57-near-the-rim sound to a ready to use final sound using only Sugar.
- Synth Bass Arp
- Synth basses are awesome. In plugin from they tend to be very slick and can disappear in a busy mix. Sugar can bring out the harmonics using the DRIVE circuit with some ‘WARM’ action to anchor the roots of the line. This example shows just that.
- Vocal 1
- On Vocals Sugar is perfect to bring out the top of the range without creating peaks or unwanted sibilants. It’s also perfect for fattening vocals that are too thin. In this example you can hear how Sugar brings the shine up and lifts the presence of the vocals without creating issues with ‘ssss’ or making random notes sticking out like an EQ would.
- Vocal 2
- Everyone has a proper vocal sound in their ear. It can be difficult to get that magic sound though. Modern recordings can be a bit thin. In this example notice how Sugar fills in the mid range of this otherwise good recording. It had the presence and heft needed to fit in a mix.
- Vocal 3
- Vocalists tend to want to ‘eat the mic’ when tracking. It creates several issues like too much proximity effect which results in a dull and uneven sound. In this example example Sugar is used to saturate transients, evening out the presence, and to open the high-end of the vocal using High and AIR sections which allows to compensate for the low end buildup without having to thin it out
Magazine reviews
Sugar never tasted so good… This is a highly usable, enjoyable plugin and a no-brainer if you don’t have a sonic sweetener in your plugin folder.
The Air band, in particular, is pure magic in its lifting effect, and it’s always worth trying both modes for every band, as the differences between them can be profound.
Sugar is an appropriately ‘suck it and see’ sort of a processor. And, for the most part, it’s on that delivers gratifying results very quickly.
Sugar definitely sweetens tracks. Whether you are a songwriter just trying to quickly enhance tracks or a seasoned audio, tired of placing a few plugins, Sugar does the trick brilliantly.
I’ve been looking for the right processor for this for a long time, ad I think I’ve found it with Sugar.
The Secret Weapon to Pro-Sounding Records
Sugar is my new best friend on the mix bus. Just a spoonful.
Sugar is my new go to tool. Having fun enhancing sub low frequencies on the bass drum. High frequency air for vocals. And of course helping sonically stale recordings come to life in a mix.
Sugar is great, it's the perfect tone shaper.
Sugar is a next generation plugin that lives up to that analog ideal. It’s unique and intuitive controls make sense right from the start. Sugar will live on many of my future mixes.
Sugar was designed from the ground up to bridge the gap between classic analog sound and digital reality. I find myself using it on every mix.
Sugar is my new best friend on the mix bus. Just a spoonful.
Sugar is my new go to tool. Having fun enhancing sub low frequencies on the bass drum. High frequency air for vocals. And of course helping sonically stale recordings come to life in a mix.
Sugar is great, it's the perfect tone shaper.
Sugar is a next generation plugin that lives up to that analog ideal. It’s unique and intuitive controls make sense right from the start. Sugar will live on many of my future mixes.
Sugar was designed from the ground up to bridge the gap between classic analog sound and digital reality. I find myself using it on every mix.
System requirements
Minimum requirements
macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) minimum, Apple Silicon compatible (M1+)
Compatible with all DAWs
Compatible with all DAWs
Pro Tools
Cubase
Logic Pro X
Ableton
Studio One
Luna
Formats
Formats
User Manual
User Manual
Press Kit
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