THE PLUGIN YOU COMMIT
BEFORE YOU MIX
a complete analog path in one plugin
You want the sound of a full analog signal path, but at the convenience of a plugin. You’ve stacked plugins together but you keep tweaking each one, second‑guessing every move and pulling you further out from the mix. You want to hone in on "your sound," without needing a Jenga tower of plugins all with their own updates, licenses and subscriptions.
That’s why I created RoundTrip
Before the first fader moves, the magic of a great mix starts with the recordings.
Sometimes a mix falling flat isn't due to talent or taste; it’s option overload. Instead of committing to a sound, modern production makes it far too easy to undo everything. We keep auditioning chains, swapping “better” plugins, and making last-minute changes that undermine yesterday’s choices.
This makes mixes feel less intentional.
RoundTrip is my answer to that: the end-to-end signal path your audio would have taken in the analog world, gluing your tracks together before you touch a single fader.
the modules
Classic emulations.Brand new workflow
Commitment is freedom
I’ve been working this way in my own mixes for years, committing a trusted chain of my favourite gear to all my takes and software instruments, adding my own unique, cohesive fingerprint to every record.
It worked, but it also meant building and maintaining multiple chains, chasing hardware and software dependencies, licences and insert slots. I wanted a single plugin that could cover all those steps at once, so I could move faster without sacrificing quality.
RoundTrip brings the unmistakable sound of of some of the world's most coveted hardware into the digital world. But unlike individual tools, it presents the full path meticulously modelled from preamp to final tape print. I designed it to live at the front of the workflow as the first plugin printed directly to your takes, just as all your favourite classic records did.
Built on years of multi-Platinum mix experience and a hybrid engineering workflow, RoundTrip is a curated collection of my go-to preamps, timeless channel strips, iconic mix desks, classic tape machines and a unique, bonus "smile" exciter, all of which are gain-matched* for easy A/B testing.
*Gain-matched to pink noise and 1kz tone at -20 dB. Not all sources react the same way to non-linear processing, but as I want the end result to come out at relatively the same LUFS for my own work, I did my best to even out each module. That said, some gain mismatch is to be expected.
extra features &
special use cases
RoundTrip doesn’t stop there.
Each module has a calibration control, allowing up to 10x more* of each effect. At 1x, expect the same results as the hardware. Past 3 or 4 starts to enter audible distortion levels.
For extra realism, you can skip the Summing stage after recording, add it to the mix bus and recreate the final pass: hitting the Summing console, and printing the final mixdown back to tape. There is randomized wow and flutter as well as crosstalk to add tiny variations to each take, or you can dial it to 100% for extreme results.
The variable post-limiter/clipper set before the final output gain was added during beta testing as a catch-all before leaving the plugin, and I spent way too long turning it into a tiny beast, worthy of its own plugin entirely. Playing with the input gain and this one all-powerful "climiter" knob has created some truly otherworldly results.
In hardware, every component shapes the audio in subtle, musical ways. Transients are tamed, harmonics add thrust and naturally 'compress' the signal, lower fundamentals start gaining octaves, and mixes start to glue together before processing even begins. But the main difference is the mindset: no infinite undo, no plugin flipflop and less choice paralysis.
That’s the mindset I built into RoundTrip. It’s not just an amazing library of classic emulations set to time-tested settings, it’s a philosophy to speed up your workflow by choosing a trademark sound, printing into it, and moving forward.**
*Non-linearities in each algorithm interact differently, so some effects become subjectively approximate nearing the 10x level. Results can, will, and must vary.
**Unless you're just starting out in your mixing journey or have serious commitment problems you can start with the plugin as the first insert, just don't let me catch you doing this, I'll be displeased.