Sun-soaked vintage tones. The most timeless chain in music
Three modules, three machines. Each one custom-built to capture the sound of a specific piece of vintage gear. Run in signal order, or use them individually. Click any module to learn more.
Sunburn-A800
Built around the Studer A800 - the tape machine on the records you're trying to sound like. Push it gently and the low end firms up, the top end smooths out, and everything sits together with that analog weight. Push harder and the saturation builds: harmonic color, compression, and the feeling of a signal that's been through something physical. Run it on guitars, drums, vocals, synths - it works on anything.
Sunburn-201
Inspired by the Roland RE-201 Space Echo - the tape echo unit behind some of the most iconic vintage sounds ever recorded. The RE-201 didn't just repeat the signal, it degraded it. Each echo came back darker, warmer, more saturated than the last because it was literally passing through tape. Sunburn-201 captures that same behavior: repeats that age and breathe, trails that feel physical. Run a guitar or synth through it and it immediately sounds like a record.
Sunburn-Bloom
Two machines in one: a Fender spring reverb tank and a Roland Dimension D chorus. The spring puts the signal in a room - short, physical, alive. The Dimension D spreads it wide: slow, natural chorus that sounds nothing like a guitar pedal. Together they finish the chain. Stack parts through Bloom and they sound like they belong in the same space. It's what classic engineers reached for last - and it's usually what makes the difference.
The Sound. What makes Sunburn different
We were obsessed with the warmth on 70-80s records - the way everything sounded alive, physical, like it was recorded in a real room. That sound came from specific machines. We studied them, modeled them, and built them into one plugin. Sunburn is the vintage tone toolkit: tape saturation, tape echo, spring reverb and chorus, all in one chain. Put anything through it.
The most timeless chain in music is now the best songwriting tool.
The gear that defined the greatest records ever made, rebuilt for how music gets made today. Same warmth, same depth, same analog character. No tape machine required.
Built around the sound, not the spec sheet.
Each plugin starts with a specific sonic reference - a piece of gear, a tone, a moment in a recording. The DSP is written from scratch to capture that character.
No feature checklists. No generic algorithms. Just tools built for the actual sounds you're chasing.
1,000+ musicians using Vynl Audio
System Requirements
macOS 10.15 Catalina or later
Formats: VST3, AU
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