Bedroom Producers Blog releases BPB Dirty Spring, a freeware spring reverb effect in VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX plugin formats for digital audio workstations on Windows and macOS.
BPB Dirty Spring is a free spring reverb VST plugin with a built-in bitcrusher. It’s a FREE gift for all BPB readers (thank you all for your continued support). ❤️
If you asked me what my favorite type of effect is, I couldn’t give you a single answer. I love using filters, saturation effects, spring reverbs, and tape delays.
The first two are already available as freeware plugins here on Bedroom Producers Blog (BPB Dirty Filter and BPB Saturator), so I guess it was time to follow up with a spring reverb (and hopefully that tape delay is coming soon 🤞).
Here’s a closer look at BPB Dirty Spring.
Btw, I’ve been planning to release this as a Black Friday freebie for months, so it’s a pure coincidence that Waves Audio also released a free spring reverb today. The more, the merrier, though!
BPB Dirty Spring is a simple plugin designed to sound good out-of-the-box. It’s easy to use, too. Adjust the Decay and Tone knobs to get the desired spring reverb character. You can preview it by pushing the Kick button (it simulates kicking/hitting a hardware spring delay).
The Pre knob adjusts the pre-delay time, which can be used to achieve some interesting echo/delay effects. I showed all of this briefly in the quick video demo that you can watch below.
BPB Dirty Spring’s “secret sauce” is the built-in bitcrusher. Placing a bitcrusher on reverb isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, so the feature is completely bypassed by default. However, I love crunchy-sounding spring reverbs, and I highly recommend giving this feature a try.
There are several bitcrushing modes to choose from, ranging from very subtle to over-the-top. Try using some of these on sampled drums to get that classic 8-bit sampler effect.
Use a short Decay setting and adjust the Mix knob so that the bitcrushed signal is just a subtle lo-fi layer. Or, crank up the Decay and enjoy the sound of an extremely lo-fi spring reverb.
BPB Dirty Spring is free to download and use. No authorization is required. Visit the download page linked below and enter your email address to get the download link (subscribing to BPB’s newsletter is entirely optional).
Download: BPB Dirty Spring (8.08 MB download size, ZIP archive containing EXE installer, 32-bit & 64-bit VST2/VST3/AU/AAX plugin format for Windows & macOS)
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60 Comments
Aris
onThank you so much!
Tomislav Zlatic
onYou’re welcome! Enjoy the plugin. :)
Geoff Byrd
onJust letting you know, I downloaded the new Dirty Spring plugin and it crashed Logic immediately.
Christian
onThis is so great. Thank you very very much!
Tomislav Zlatic
onThank you! :)
FrozenjaZz
onThanks soooo much! I really enjoy spring reverbs, so this is very welcome!!
Tomislav Zlatic
onHey Frozenjazz, thank you! Really glad to hear that. :)
Daniel S
onThank you!
Tomislav Zlatic
onYou’re welcome!
SNTMNTL
onThis has much better sound and choice of parameters than the Waves Black Friday offering (similar idea though, which is funny). Thanks Tomi & BPB team
Neytcev
onAgree! :)
Waves joked this time with its customers ….
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks, that’s nice to hear! Enjoy the plugin. :)
Animus
onSweeeeet, i love spring reverbs!
Tomislav Zlatic
onCool, me too! :D
Vlado Neychev
onI like the sound, but not the look of the skin,
we always prefer the better because we are creators,
artists who also take care of good aesthetics.
Thanks!
Tomislav Zlatic
onI designed the skin so that one’s on me. I kinda like it though. :D
Neytcev
onBless you! I’ll try to correct the main pic,
if it is visible inside the plugin content :)
Neytcev
onhttps://static.kvraudio.com/i/b/psp_springbox_large.png
sn
onI like the GUI design, too! :)
Brenny C
onYeah I like the GUI a lot.
pacmusik
onThanks Tomislav, I love these spring reverbs, and this one is very easy to use, I’m going to test it thoroughly !!! Thanks again!!!
Tomislav Zlatic
onSame here, big fan of spring reverbs. I hope you’ll like this one!
bmovie
onThanks Tomislav! Not too many good free spring reverbs, can’t wait to try it :)
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers, Bmovie!
Drew Lake
onThanks Tomislav! This is gonna be fun to use
Tomislav Zlatic
onHave fun using it! :)
ingver
onlinux plz
Tomislav Zlatic
onUnfortunately, I don’t think we can provide a Linux version anytime soon. :(
Jeffrey Price
onThanks a million Tomislav!!
Tomislav Zlatic
onYou’re welcome! :)
yzcoruhT
onThank you for your plugins, Tomislav (and BPB crew). 👍
Wish you all the best in 2021!
yzcoruhT
snk
onThank you so much, Tomislav, that’s much appreciated and very generous!
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks, SNK!
Humanoide
onThank you very much, They are the best, Super! greetings from latin america
Tomislav Zlatic
onGreetings and enjoy the freebie!
cmd
onAMAZING!!! If I’m not wrong there’s no post that gather all BPB plugins together, would come in handy! Cause their GUI are similar, which is also cool that you have your own aesthetic. Actually the “bpb” logo is nice and doesn’t downgrade the plugins! like it happens with the ComputerMusic logo on their free plugins… they make you feel the poorest producer on Earth :D
Tomislav Zlatic
onHey CMD, thanks for the tips! There’s our Downloads page (https://bedroomproducersblog.com/free-download/), and I’ll BPB Dirty Spring there. Yesterday was too hectic, so I didn’t have time to do it. Thanks for the comment about the logo, too! :)
Bob
onThis sounds great! Thanks for this and the other freebie plugins.
Any chance they will get M1-native support in the future?
Pisces
onThank you and thanks for the option of 32bit. My mobile setup is 32bit this will come in very handy.
Tomislav Zlatic
onYou’re welcome, Pisces!
Jay Kekkonen
onWill check out! GG Tomislav Zlatic
Tomislav Zlatic
onGG!
Jawnson
onThank you so much!!
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers!
Wing Yee
onAwesome Reverb – Thanks!
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks, Wing!
PureFire
onThanks so much Tomislav & BPB, this sounds awesome & i like the extra option of ‘Dirt’ as well, thats a nice touch. Great work & this is very much appreciated. All working perfectly on my system 😉☘️❤️
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks PureFire, glad to hear that you liked BPB Dirty Spring! :)
Gery Zenz
onVery cool, thank u so much! Good sound and a nice and clean GUI!
Animus
onTried it out a bit this morning. Love the sound! Cool how you can “kick the can”.
Luke
onHey Tomislav and team! Thanks so much for publishing this awesome plugin. I can’t get it working on my computer though, am wondering by chance can you advise? Am running MacOS 10.12.6 with Logic Pro 10.2.2. Any info appreciated – thank you!
MRG
onSuch a nice spring reverb for a 2600 vibe on synths, tho I was using ye olde U-NO 62 with it. :-) Is it me or when you go dirty, you can’t get clean anymore? (Win7 x64) Would love to be able to ‘play’ the Kick with MIDI, including velocity, hehe.
Thank you for this gem and for Win7 support, I’m looking at you, BPB Saturator… >_<
MRG
onMmm, so… Dirt knob. I can go to LOW, MID and HI+ and come back to OFF no problem, but once I reached the MPC mode, I cannot get OFF to work anymore. Win7 64bit. Automation parameter going to OFF apparently. Can anybody confirm? Ah, who cares, can’t get mad at a little bit of spring just before winter.
Tomislav Zlatic
onHi MRG, sorry for the late response. We are working on fixing that bug. :)
4Stringer
onThanks BPB. A 32bit delight… :)
james richardson
onlove your blog and your plugins. this one however isnt working in pro tools 10 for me. when i boot up pro tools is says the plugin is missing its ilok license.
Moja
onso unfair! i never get any mail to get any BPB notification in my mail to download a free reverb pluggin. its so unfair **gnashes teeth**
Mario Bradley
onhi pro tools 12 it wont bring it in its saying its not authorised …any ideas many thanks mario
Tomislav Zlatic
onHi Mario, what is your OS?
Mike
onThat KICK knob.
Finally we get the real spirit of the true analog hardware!