Coast Driver
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.
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.
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Drive into AmpA 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.
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Tone and Presence that actually moveTone ranges from warm and full to bright and tight, and Presence adds or smooths upper-mid definition by up to 6 dB either way.
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Three cabinet voicings, or true bypassTweed 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.
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Up to 8x oversamplingSmoother 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.
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Built-in noise gateCuts 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.
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Time-aligned MixBlend dry and driven signals for parallel saturation on bass, drums and synths, with no phasing at any Quality setting.
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50 presetsClean and edge-of-breakup, classic blues, high-gain blues, bright and aggressive, and extreme saturation, plus your own presets that travel with your projects.