What’s in the ’Box?
Drive Shaper is the seventh effect to join the ShaperBox 2 roster. It joins similarlydesigned tools for modulating stereo width, pan position, filtering, amplitude and audio playback speed. ShaperBox also features another distortion tool, in the form of CrushShaper, which is fairly similar to DriveShaper in its application but instead deals exclusively with digital lo-fi/bit reduction effects.
DriveShaper is the latest effect to be added to Cableguys’ modulation-focussed multieffect plugin ShaperBox 2. It arrived as a freebie for existing Cableguys users towards the end of last year, meaning all existing ShaperBox owners had it added to their collection without paying. For those that missed out, it’s now available for €39, which is still rather reasonable for such a feature-packed distortion.