Feet on a scuffed, cracked parquet floor in a dark club, shot from above.

Bass rig + guitar rig, at once

La Bestia

Play bass.
Sound like the whole band.

macOS · Windows · Linux · VST3 · AU · Standalone · offline license

What it is

La Bestia turns one bass into a whole band.

Plug a bass in and it splits the signal two ways at once: one path runs through a tight, heavy bass rig, the other through a filthy guitar rig. One holds the low end down, the other screams on top, and a single bass suddenly fills the whole room, like the two-piece bands where one person is somehow the entire wall of sound.

Simple face, whole rig behind it. Two knobs and a mix on the front; the whole split-and-stack chain on the back when you want it.

The front

Two knobs and a mix. That is the whole face.

Dirt — the grit

How hard both rigs get pushed. From a clean split to a room full of filth. This is the character that ties the two amps together into one beast.

Blend — bass ↔ guitar

The balance between the two rigs. All the way down for tight low weight, all the way up for screaming top, or park it in the middle where one bass sounds like a band.

MIX sets the finished beast against your dry signal, full for an insert or pulled back on a bus to keep your dry attack out front.

Hear it

One bass, dry, then the same bass through La Bestia.

The chain

Flip it around and there's the whole rig.

Input · Dirt Split

▲ splits two ways ▲

Bass rig

the tight low foundation

Drive bass amp gain
Sub the octave-down weight
Comp holds the low end together

Guitar rig

the snarl on top

Fuzz guitar amp filth
Octave harmonics that cut
Bite presence up top

▼ back into one ▼

Output · Blend Mix Output

The plugin

Simple front. Chain in the back.

Front. Two knobs and a mix.

La Bestia back panel: the input split into a bass rig and a guitar rig, back into the output. — Back. Bass rig + guitar rig.

Ingredients

What's stacked inside, in the order your signal travels.

A splittersends one bass two ways at once
A tight bass ampthe low, heavy foundation
An octave-down subfloor-shaking weight
A tightening compressorkeeps the low end punchy, not mud
A filthy guitar ampthe snarl and fuzz on top
An octave-up biteharmonics that cut through
DIRT & BLEND macrosthe whole rig, worked into two knobs
Hours of tuning by earhow the two rigs sit as one
A generous pour of je ne sais quoithe part that never makes the label

Why it sounds like this

The trick behind the bands where a single bass somehow sounds like a full rock group is not a secret: they split the bass and run it through a bass amp and a guitar amp at the same time, one holding the bottom, the other screaming on top. La Bestia builds that whole rig into one plugin, and gain-stages it to a proper studio level, so it fills the room but never clips your channel. Play bass, sound like the whole band.

Formats & requirements

VST3, AU and Standalone. No AAX format, so it runs in any VST3 or AU host. macOS 10.13 and up, universal. Windows 10 and up, 64-bit. Linux x86_64 (VST3 + Standalone, tar.gz). Offline license, works on every computer you own, free updates forever.

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