Frequency-shaped overdrive.
From cold bite to warm glow.

Move the harmonic emphasis from highs to lows — and anywhere in between.

Heat knob shifts the drive from crisp highs to full lows
Dry/wet mix blends the original signal with the effect
Carefully tuned parameter ranges for musical, perceptual control
High-quality anti-aliasing for clean, artifact-free overdrive
Zero-latency processing for immediate, real-time response
Deep white-box component-level modeling for authentic analog behavior

Subtle or driven — it holds up either way.

Demos

Demo video thumbnail - Vicenzo De Caro playing guitar in studio with a Darkglass Anagram in foreground — "**Yastem**" by Vincenzo De Caro

Guitar demo by Benn Romano

Bass demo by Benn Romano

"Slow" by Michele De Finis

Guitar demo by Giuseppe Monzo

Amp Squeezer is not just a highly accurate digital clone of a classic guitar overdrive pedal. It's also a complete re-engineering designed to work across all instruments while unlocking a much wider sonic range and offering more musical control.

Temperature control

Non-transparent overdrives boost mid frequencies, right?

Well, not necessarily anymore.

Amp Squeezer lets you choose which frequency range gets pushed via its Heat knob. Retain low-end on bass or shift the focus upward to drive and emphasize highs.

Magnitude response plot of Amp Squeezer's clipping stage with Heat knob at 0%, 50% (original), and 100% — Magnitude (frequency) response of the clipping stage at different Heat knob positions

Heat 50% (original)

Heat 0%

Heat 100%

Extended signal flow

Sometimes you want to add gritty texture to your sound, perhaps even heavy distortion, without sacrificing dynamics or clarity.

Amp Squeezer has you covered. Its simple but powerful dry/wet Mix knob lets you blend in more clean signal when needed to preserve articulation.

Series of Clipping stage and Tone control, like the original, blended into the newly introduced Mix with the clean input, and finally going through Volume, again as in the original — Improved signal flow with added dry/wet Mix

Mix 0% (dry)

Mix 100%

Mix 50%

Play what you mean

Ever feel like you need to memorize knob positions just to get the sound you want? You're not imagining it, it's because most gear controls aren't mapped to how we actually perceive sound.

Amp Squeezer fixes that.

The Drive and Tone knobs are linearly mapped to passband gain and cutoff frequency, which directly reflect how we hear changes in sound. No more guesswork. Just dial in what you mean.

Distorted Mona Lisa on the left, the original painting on the right, and a left-to-right arrow in between — What would the Mona Lisa look like if the coordinate axes were mapped as the knob rotations are in the original device in perceptual terms? Fixing that!

Mapping plots of Drive and Tone knob rotation travel (%) to passband gain (dB) and cutoff frequency (Hz, log scale), respectively, original and improved — Drive and Tone knob mapping to passband gain and cutoff frequency, respectively

Sounds great, plays fast

Amp Squeezer is built to meet the highest sound quality standards while maintaining maximum playability.

Specifically:

The engine runs internally at least at a 176.4 kHz sample rate to suppress digital aliasing.
High-quality IIR resampling ensures zero added latency.
The original analog circuit is modeled at the component level using white-box techniques, capturing not just the sound, but also the feel and behavior of the hardware.

Go get it!

Curious to hear what you do with it.

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