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Coast Driver | Driftlab Audio
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Coast Driver

Windows only
VST3

An overdrive pedal and a driven amp in one plugin. Push a mid-focused Drive into the Amp stage for anything from edge-of-breakup chime to thick, sustaining leads.

Drive + Amp 3 Cab Voicings Up to 8x Oversampling Mix Control
Drive & Amp  ·  Guitar
Coast Driver plugin UI
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Overview

The pedal-into-amp sound, in one place.

Coast Driver chains two stages the way guitarists have for decades. The Drive stage is a mid-focused overdrive that keeps your low end intact, and it feeds an Amp stage that thickens and sustains as you turn it up, tightening the low end so heavier settings stay clear instead of flubby.

Tone sweeps from warm and full to bright and cutting, Presence adds or softens upper-mid bite, and three cabinet voicings shape where the guitar sits in a mix. Running your own impulse responses or our Cabs plugin? Set Cabinet to Bypass and the amp output stays completely unvoiced.

The Quality setting oversamples the drive and amp stages up to 8x for smoother, less fizzy high-gain tones, and its small latency is reported to your DAW so the track stays in time. Mix blends in a time-aligned dry signal for parallel drive, and a soft output limiter keeps everything below 0 dBFS.

  • Drive into Amp
    A mid-focused overdrive that blends back its own low end, feeding an amp stage with gain-dependent low-end tightening and subtle power-supply sag.
  • Tone and Presence that actually move
    Tone ranges from warm and full to bright and tight, and Presence adds or smooths upper-mid definition by up to 6 dB either way.
  • Three cabinet voicings, or true bypass
    Tweed Chime 1×12, British Stack 4×12 and Modern Tight 4×12, or Bypass for a completely unvoiced output into your own impulse responses or Cabs.
  • Up to 8x oversampling
    Smoother high-gain tones with less aliasing. Latency is reported to your DAW, the tone stays the same at every setting, and your choice saves with the project.
  • Built-in noise gate
    Cuts hum and buzz between notes before the gain stages amplify them. Set it once for your guitar and interface; presets leave it where you put it.
  • Time-aligned Mix
    Blend dry and driven signals for parallel saturation on bass, drums and synths, with no phasing at any Quality setting.
  • 50 presets
    Clean and edge-of-breakup, classic blues, high-gain blues, bright and aggressive, and extreme saturation, plus your own presets that travel with your projects.