Plugin comparison
Specs, price and the Dubspot Score, side by side — with our verdict on which effect to buy.
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Contenders
Effect / Baby Audio
Super VHS is an 80s-inspired multi-effects plugin that adds lo-fi degradation: tape saturation, sample-rate reduction, pitch drift, and reverb.
Effect / Cableguys
VolumeShaper is a Cableguys effect plugin that shapes audio with a drawable volume LFO triggered by beats, MIDI or transients across three frequency bands.
Technical matrix
| Signal | Baby Audio Super VHS | Cableguys VolumeShaper 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | — | — |
| Dubspot Score | 8.4 | 8.4 |
| Formats | VST, VST3, AU, AAX | VST 2, VST 3, AU (Mac), AAX |
| Plugin type | Multi-effect plugin with six one-knob effects | — |
| Effects included | Static (VHS noise), Heat (tape saturation), Shape (sample rate reducer), Magic (ensemble FX), Drift (pitch fluctuation LFO), Wash (reverb) | — |
| Formats | VST, VST3, AU, AAX (64-bit) | — |
| Mac support | macOS 10.11 and up, native Apple Silicon (M-chip) compatible | — |
| Windows support | Windows 10 and newer | — |
| DAW compatibility | All major DAWs (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper, Reason) | — |
| Current version on official page | — | VolumeShaper 7 (version 6 no longer listed/sold by Cableguys) |
| Multiband shaping | — | Separate volume LFOs for lows, mids and highs |
| Triggering | — | Beat-locked sync, MIDI, or audio-transient triggering with external sidechain input |
| Smoothing | — | Click-free lookahead smoothing with transient pre-smoothing |
| Mac formats | — | VST 2, VST 3, AU or AAX |
| Windows formats | — | VST 2, VST 3 or AAX |
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