8008 - 808 Sub Bass Shaper Black Friday Deal 2026: $10, 83% off

The 8008 808 Black Friday deal takes 83% off Thenatan Audio's sub bass shaper, bringing it to $10 until Nov 19, 2026.

8008 is a transient shaper and bass-processing plugin for Mac and Windows. It runs 7 processors at once, all tuned for the 30-150Hz region where a sub bass lives.

According to the maker, 8008 was designed specifically for bass work rather than being an all-purpose processor that also handles low end. It is built around one job: making an 808 land without stacking five plugins.

What does 8008 do to an 808?

The whole chain runs in one pass, in one window, at zero latency. The maker describes the signal path like this:

• A transient shaper that sharpens the click without touching the fundamental
• A lift of up to 18dB on the note itself
• Eight saturation characters
• A compressor with attack timing set so it cannot chew a sub
• A mono maker that sums the lows with no phase artefacts
• Tape hiss, then a brickwall limiter

Sharpening applies solely to whichever frequency range you target with the transient shaper. Because the mono maker leaves no crossover seam, the result is club-ready and vinyl-ready with no artefacts.

Lo-fi tools and the hiss

Rather than hovering at a steady noise floor that peaks during silence, the tape hiss follows the dynamics of whatever you feed in: it rises when a hit lands and fades out as the sound dies away.

For grit, there is bit-depth crushing from 16 bits down to 3, aimed at early-sampler character. A steep 24dB/oct highcut doubles as an aliasing tamer for the harder saturation modes.

CPU and bypass

Every effect lives in its own processing node. Switching one off stops it computing, rather than mixing it to zero and leaving it running.

Bypassed blocks dim and grey out their knobs, so the state is never ambiguous. Run all seven or just two, and the CPU meter shows the difference.

Presets and interface

There are 88 hand-tuned factory presets in six families: Clean, Punch, Phat, Grit, Lofi and Extreme. Names run from Studio Standard and Velvet Floor to Sub Whale, Growl Monster and Speaker Killer.

Presets remember which stages are bypassed, and any stage that isn't doing anything for a given sound stays completely disabled. A quick look tells you exactly which processors that patch relies on.

Each of the seven processors gets its own colour-coded section on a single screen, so nothing is buried in separate pages. Pointing at a knob or switch brings up a short, easy-to-read explanation along the bottom of the plugin.

Knobs respond to dragging, and a double-click returns any of them to its default. An output meter sits beside the master section. The plugin window scales between 50% and 200%, and Ctrl-clicking the corner handle restores the original size. Nothing in the chain uses lookahead, limiter included, so there is no added latency when tracking live.