Cableguys

ShaperBox 2’s latest addition breaks free of the multi-effect format, offering creatively shaped sampled noise. So how’s it shape up?

>Cableguys have established a refined formula for their ‘Shaper’ effects. While every one deals with a different process, the general principles of each are broadly the same. They are multiband, allowing different takes on the chosen effect to be applied individually to editable high, mid and low bands. Each is heavily modulation-focused too, controlled using a combination of an adjustable input follower and the highly-customisable envelope shaper that gives ShaperBox its name.

With NoiseShaper, however, the developers are deviating from that established format somewhat. For one thing, this isn’t really an effect, strictly speaking. Although NoiseShaper runs within ShaperBox 2 and will pass an incoming audio signal, here that audio is used mainly as a sidechain input that can be blended with NoiseShaper’s output but isn’t, for the most part, processed by the plugin.