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The KickShaper Black Friday deal from W. A. Production is 74% off, which brings this kick designer plugin to $10 until Nov 29, 2026.
KickShaper is built for kick drums that sound thin, over-compressed or short on fundamentals. It works on kicks in any genre, from EDM and hip-hop to rock.
The maker says the algorithms were tested on thousands of kick samples by audio engineer Emrah Celik. The interface is streamlined, so a usable kick can come together in seconds.
The maker aims for natural-sounding tails, well-defined transients and depth, while keeping the full dynamic range of the digital domain.
The processing is split into dedicated modules, so each part of the kick gets its own control.
The Tone section has four knobs: Cut trims the lows lightly, Low adds punch, Mid handles muddiness and High controls the click.
The Enhance section adds three more tools. Depth applies analog hardware convolution to make a kick larger while taming excess highs. Heat adds subtle saturation. Punch is described as console-style compression tuned for kicks.
Clip squashes the peaks of the kick. The maker says this keeps it punchy and impactful even on smaller speakers.
The interface is vector-based and resizable. A central window shows the live audio and what happens to the signal as it moves through the plugin.
AB comparison lets you set two processing chains against each other, and undo and redo buttons roll back changes. Factory presets cover kick processing across several genres and work as starting points.
System requirements: Windows 8 or higher (64 bit), macOS 10.10 or higher (64 bit), and AAX for Pro Tools 11 or higher. If you run Apple Silicon, the maker asks you to review the plugin's compatibility status on your system before buying.
Yes. The KickShaper Black Friday deal is 74% off, which brings the plugin to $10. The deal runs until Nov 29, 2026. It is a kick designer plugin from W. A. Production.
KickShaper reshapes kick drums. Tail, Deboom and Click modules handle the low end, the length and the transient. Tone and Enhance controls add trimming, punch, saturation and clipping, plus a Frequency Finder that detects the kick's dominant frequency.
Deboom shortens the wavelength of low frequencies for kicks that stay punchy but concise, and the maker says it is more than a low-cut or compressor. Tails extracts the sub frequencies from your kick and harmonizes them, aiming for resonance without boomy artifacts.
KickShaper runs on Windows 8 or higher (64 bit) and macOS 10.10 or higher (64 bit). It also comes in AAX for Pro Tools 11 or higher. Apple Silicon users are asked to review the plugin's compatibility status before buying.
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