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This bucket 500 Black Friday deal from Fuse Audio Labs takes 61% off the BUCKET-500 Analog Delay, a delay plugin that brings analog bucket brigade (BBD) behavior into your mixes. It costs $19 until Dec 6, 2026.
The maker describes it as a musical delay with an instant, recognizable vibe that sits behind lead instruments and other sources. Texture and decay differ from most other delay plugins, which makes it a handy extra in your signal chain.
It is a simple processor with enough range for a wide spread of vintage-style sounds, according to Fuse Audio Labs. The design stays close to the original circuit.
The BL-3208 delay chip, the SA-571-based compandor system and the anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters are all modeled.
The maker calls it warm, grungy and organic. Each repeat degrades a little more, fading toward grit and a darker tone.
Transients smear less than they do on many other delays, so the tail doesn't turn muddy. Fuse Audio Labs sums it up as stomp box simplicity with added character.
Beyond the vintage circuit itself, the plugin includes some extras for flexibility: a feedback-path tilt filter and a cross-feed mode for the stereo channels, plus an optional LFO modulating the delay clock and host tempo sync that keeps repeats in time. According to the maker, setting two short delay times slightly apart and enabling cross-feed and modulation can broaden the stereo image of a signal.
The BUCKET-500 VST runs in a VST2, VST3, AAX or AudioUnits host on Mac, and in a VST2, VST3 or AAX host on Windows. Both platforms need 2GB RAM and a display of 1280x1024 pixels or more.
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Fuse Audio Labs also provides sound examples for the BUCKET-500.
Yes. The BUCKET-500 Analog Delay Black Friday deal takes 61% off, which brings the plugin to $19. The offer ends Dec 6, 2026.
The plugin includes a modeled BBD delay with the BL-3208 chip, an SA-571-based compandor and anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters. Custom additions are a feedback tilt filter, stereo cross-feed, an optional delay clock LFO and host tempo sync.
Yes, it is a VST plugin. On Mac it works in VST2, VST3, AAX or AudioUnits hosts. On Windows it works in VST2, VST3 or AAX hosts, in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Fuse Audio Labs says no. Repeats get warmer, grittier and darker with each pass, but transients smear less than on many other delays, so the tail stays clear instead of turning muddy.
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