Mass Black Friday Deal 2026: $15, 61% off

The Mass Black Friday deal takes 61% off The Tone Foundry's saturation plugin, bringing it to $15, with the offer ending Nov 30, 2026.

Mass is a saturation plugin built around one large control. That control sets how hard the signal is pushed, from a gentle lift on the mix bus to a parallel-crushed bass.

The developer is an independent drum and bass producer. Bass music, DnB and hip-hop were the targets, though the maker says it works just as well on vocals, guitars and the mix bus.

What does Mass do?

Three styles set the flavour, and each one behaves differently:

• Modern: clean and dense. It adds solidity and level without obvious colour, so things get thicker well before they sound distorted.
• Vintage: warm and asymmetric. The curve adds even harmonics and a rounder tone, and a slow wow-and-flutter style drift keeps sustained sounds moving. It is DC-blocked, so it stays centred.

The Resonant control isolates an adjustable midrange slice, pushes it hard into clipping, and then blends that saturated signal alongside the untouched sound. Heavy mid-range basses and sharp snare hits can be layered freely, since the low end beneath them remains steady.

The maker points Modern at mix buses, drum buses and tight sub or mid-bass. Vintage is aimed at breaks, room mics, guitars and synths. Resonant is for reese growl, 808 bark and kick knock.

What else is in the signal path?

A handful of controls put the character where you want it:

• Focus: a ±3 dB tonal tilt around 700 Hz in Modern and Vintage. In Resonant it tunes the driven band anywhere from 250 Hz to 3.5 kHz.
• Phase: a six-stage all-pass disperser that reshapes transients and thickens attacks. It is fully out of circuit at 0.

The Mix control balances the unprocessed and saturated signals at constant power, which suits parallel saturation, and both the input and output stages give you 24 dB of cut or boost.

• Hard Clip: a brickwall ceiling at 0 dBFS, processed at the oversampled rate.

Automate Focus in Resonant and you get vowel-like movement.

How does Mass keep you honest about loudness?

Saturation raises level, and louder tends to sound better. Auto Gain level-matches the output to the input, so you compare tone instead of volume. It behaves the same in realtime and in offline bounces.

Delta plays only what Mass is adding. You hear which transients it catches and which harmonics it builds before you commit.

How does it behave in a session?

Oversampling runs 1x, 2x, 4x or 8x, linear-phase, and covers the saturation and the hard clipper. The latency is reported to your host for automatic compensation, and host bypass is click-free and time-aligned.

Mass lets you automate all of its primary parameters, and a single move of a knob gets captured cleanly whether you record in Touch or Latch mode. The interface resizes from 75% to 150%, Shift-drag gives fine adjustment, and hovering a control shows built-in help text.

20 factory presets are grouped by style, and user presets are stored as cross-platform files. No internet connection is required.