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Slapshot

Add Depth and Width Without Muddying Your Mix

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What Is Slapshot?

Slapshot is a slap delay plugin by Carve Audio, designed to add depth, width, and character while staying clean and controlled in a mix.

Reverbs and delays are great at creating space, but they often introduce muddiness unless you follow them with additional tools like EQ, de-essing, compression, or modulation. Slapshot takes care of that work for you. It’s built around slap delay to create the perception of space, while additional processing under the hood keeps the effect smooth, focused, and easy to blend with the dry signal.

The result is a bigger, more dimensional sound that still feels tight, clear, and polished, without long effect chains or endless tweaking.

Slapshot works especially well on vocals, guitars, and keys, but it can be used anywhere you want depth without losing impact.

Features

Slap Delay Built for Mixing

Slapshot uses slap delay as the foundation for adding depth and width, keeping transients intact while creating a sense of space. This makes tracks feel bigger without washing them out.

Clean, Controlled Sound by Design

Behind the scenes, Slapshot uses subtle modulation, compression, and de-essing to keep the effect smooth and balanced. This helps the delay sit naturally behind the dry signal without harshness, buildup, or clutter.

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Tightness Control for Instant Results

Instead of dialing in delay times manually, the Tightness control lets you quickly move from short, punchy slap delays to looser, more spacious sounds—without breaking your flow.

Multiple Slap Modes for Flexibility

Choose from stereo, mono, and BPM-synced slap modes, including left/right variations. This makes it easy to dial in anything from tight, focused slap to wider, tempo-locked effects.

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Built-In Tone Shaping

High-pass and low-pass filters shape what feeds into the delay, keeping low-end weight and harsh highs under control. This helps the effect stay clear, especially on vocals.

Character When You Want It

Optional LoFi and Drive controls add grit and attitude to the delayed signal, helping it sit behind the source or stand out when needed. You can even disable the delay entirely and use these for texture alone.

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How Slapshot Works

Hover over each control to learn how it works and how it helps Slapshot stay clean, focused, and easy to mix with.

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Hear Slapshot in Action

Built for Musicians. Backed by Pros.

“Slapshot does a great job at creating a unique depth of field on a lead vocal, synth, guitars, even drums. The secret weapon on it I found is actually the drive knob, it’s got a very Tascam Portastudio like distortion that I found pretty special and could easily use this plug in just for its distortion character”
Josh Korody
Josh Korody
(The Beaches, Japandroids, Fucked Up, The Dirty Nil)
“Really good. It’s fast, simple, and really straightforward.”
Tokyo Speirs, Walk Off The Earth, Producer, Engineer, Illuminati Suns, USS
Tokyo Speirs
(Walk Off The Earth, Illuminati Suns, USS)

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F.A.Q.

All of our plugins are available as VST3, AU, and AAX formats
All of our plugins are officially supported on the following DAWs:

AAX, AU, VST3 versions
64-bit only
Ableton Live 11+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
Bitwig 4+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
Cubase 13+ (Mac & PC: VST3)
Digital Performer 11+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
FL Studio 23+ (Mac & PC: VST3)
Garageband 10+ (AU)
Logic Pro 10+ (AU)
Pro Tools 12+ (Mac & PC: AAX)
Presonus Studio One 5+ (Mac & PC: AU, VST3)
Reaper 6+ (Mac & PC: VST3)
Cakewalk Next by BandLab (PC: VST3)

If you don't see your DAW listed above, they should still work as long as your DAW can use VST3, AU, or AAX plugins. But any unlisted DAWs are not officially supported.
One of our core beliefs/values here at Carve Audio is that making music should be fun and entertaining. Because of that, we try to bake a little personality into everything we make. Sometimes that shows up as a food pun. Sometimes it’s a playful graphic. Sometimes both. If it makes you smile for half a second before you hit play, that’s a win. That said, the sound is never a joke. Under the hood, these plugins are designed and tuned with the same care you’d expect from tools meant to deliver real, professional results. We just don’t think great sound has to come with a boring personality. So yeah, the names are a little ridiculous on purpose. The results aren’t.
Mac OS X 10.15 or higher
64 bit compatible
Windows 10
At least 400 MB of free drive space
All of our plugin manuals can be found here
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