01 / 05 · Transient Console
TCX-1
Shape the transient. Then choose the console it passes through.
An 8-band transient shaper with analog-behaving detectors, feeding a console front end with transformer iron, rail sag and channel crosstalk.
$59$79
Audio engineers · Kraków, Poland5 plugins in development
The tools we
kept missing.
SOLIDLAB is a team of audio engineers in Kraków. After years behind the desk we started building the processors we couldn't find: five plugins, each built around one idea you can hear.
Prototype phase · announcing soon
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About us · Kraków, Poland
Engineers first. Plugin makers second.
We're a team of audio engineers based in Kraków, and we've worked in the industry for a long time: recording, mixing and mastering other people's music, in rooms large and small.
Over the years the same gaps kept showing up in our sessions. Tools that looked the part but didn't behave like the hardware. Meters that guessed. Processors that did one job when the session needed two. So we decided to build what was missing.
The lab
Kraków.
- Coordinates
- 50.0647° N · 19.9450° E
- Local time
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- Team
- Audio engineers
- Building
- 5 plugins · AU · VST3
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Built from the gaps
Every plugin starts from something we needed in a session and couldn't find.
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Circuits, not curves
Passive networks solved node by node, detectors that charge and release like the parts they're named after.
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Screens that tell the truth
Heat maps, harmonic readouts and VUs with real ballistics. What you see is what the DSP is doing.
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Heard before it's sold
Every prototype already plays in your browser. Judge it with your ears, not our adjectives.
Good-looking plugins are everywhere. What we kept missing were tools that behave like the gear they're named after, and do the job the session actually needs.
The line-up
Five ideas,
five processors.
All five are in development. Every prototype already plays in your browser.
02 / 05 · Ambient Reverb
HALCYON
Spaces that bloom, drift and hold.
Plate, feedback-network and tape characters with bloom, shimmer, motion, ducking and an infinite hold.
$79$99
03 / 05 · Mastering Compressor & Equalizer
MX-2
The last two processors on your master, in signal-flow order.
Four-band console EQ into a soft-knee programme compressor, with Mid/Side, gain-reduction and output VUs and a short-term LUFS meter.
$99$129
04 / 05 · Program Equalizer
PEQ-2
The passive program EQ, solved as a circuit.
A passive program EQ modelled from its schematic, with the famous low boost-and-cut trick, tube drive, transformer iron and a modern monitoring row.
$45$59
05 / 05 · Class A Preamp
PRE-1
One red knob. Free, forever.
Stepped −10 to +20 dB class-A gain, an 18 dB/oct low cut, polarity, Auto Gain and a VU with real ballistics.
Free
Listen · all five
Don't take our word for it.
Pick a plugin, press play and switch scenes while it loops. Same eight seconds, same level, rendered offline through each prototype. Headphones help.
0.0001 dB
PEQ-2's response against the reference circuit
1 %
CPU per PEQ-2 instance at 48 kHz
8 bands
of analog-behaving transient detection in TCX-1
3 detectors
Opto, Diode and VCA, modelled as circuits
Complete Bundle
All four. One licence.
Free at launch · Class A Preamp
One red knob.
A stepped class-A line preamp in the 1073 tradition. Three controls, a real VU and an Auto Gain that keeps your levels where they were while the colour changes.
In development · announcing soon
The lab is almost open.
Every plugin on this page is a working prototype. Join the waitlist and you'll hear about the launch before anyone else.
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Launch pricing
20–25 % off every plugin for waitlist members at release.
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Beta access
We're recruiting testers for the prototypes. Tick the box and tell us your DAW.
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PRE-1 on day one
The free class-A preamp, in your inbox the day we launch.
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Notes from the lab
A few honest emails: what we're building and why. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Questions
Before launch
01Can I buy the plugins yet?+
Not yet. All five are in development and the interfaces and sound you see here are prototypes. We'll announce the launch shortly; the waitlist hears first.
02What does the waitlist get me?+
Launch pricing (20–25 % below the normal price), the free PRE-1 on day one, and a chance to beta test the prototypes.
03How do I become a beta tester?+
Tick "I'd like to beta test" when you join and tell us your DAW. We'll pick testers across hosts and roles.
04Which hosts will be supported?+
The plan is AU and VST3 on macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon and Intel), plus a standalone app: Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig and more.
05Are the demos real?+
The audio is rendered offline through each plugin's prototype DSP and level-matched to the dry loop. The interfaces are the real plugin UIs running in your browser with a simulated signal.