Drum knock box · with Dawgs Dabato Free

RSL DawgBox

Three knobs that make drums bite.

PUNCH lifts the hit, SUB tucks a tuned sub under the kick, and CLIP holds it all at 0 dBFS. A 500-series module made with producer Dawgs Dabato, as a plugin for your DAW, with zero latency.

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Free. Version 1.0.0 installs through RSL Hub.

macOS: Audio Unit, VST3 and Standalone. Windows: VST3 and Standalone.

Built with Dawgs Dabato, voiced on real beats and made to the same standard as the plugins we charge for. It costs you nothing.

Hear it before and after

Each clip runs dry, then through one factory preset. Both sides are matched in loudness, so what changes is the knock, not the volume. Flip the switch while it plays.

Preset DRUMS - Knock Bus

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Drum bus DRUMS - Knock Bus

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Kick KICK - Click & Weight

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Snare SNARE - Crack

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808 808 - Clipped

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From the beat No Competition, produced by Mev. Rendered with DawgBox’s own engine.

The eyes are the meter.

The Rottweiler’s eyes are red LEDs wired to the input: the left eye is the left channel, the right eye the right, and a mono track lights both. They flash on every hit and fade in about 150 ms. They never touch the audio.

Every knob starts at zero, and at zero DawgBox passes the audio through untouched. Turn up only what the drums need.

The Rottweiler engraved on the RSL DawgBox plate, its eyes lit red

3Knobs: Punch, Sub and Clip

0Samples of latency

9Factory presets, voiced on real beats

+10dBOf lift on the front of each hit, at full Punch

Three knobs, top to bottom

The signal goes in at the top and comes out at the bottom. Scroll down the plate and each knob lights up in turn.

Knob 1
Punch

Lifts the front of every hit by up to 10 dB and leaves the tail alone, so kicks and snares jump out without the room or the ring coming up with them. The knob over the Rottweiler glows amber as it works.
Knob 2
Sub

Finds the note the kick is playing and boosts a band right on it, with a shelf at 45 Hz underneath, so the low end gets heavier at the kick's own pitch instead of turning to mud.
Knob 3
Clip

A clipper that goes from soft to hard as you turn it, with up to 15 dB of drive into a ceiling at 0 dBFS. Push the drums louder and the peaks stay put.

9 presets, voiced on real beats

They load from the preset bar across the top of the window, in folders by what they are for. Step through them with the arrows, or save your own.

Folder	Preset	Settings	What it does
Drums	Knock Bus	Punch 4, Sub 2.5, Clip 3	Lifts the front of every hit and tucks a tuned sub under the kick, with the peaks held.
Kick	Click & Weight	Punch 4, Sub 3	The beater forward and more weight at the kick's own note.
Kick	Clipped Knock	Punch 5, Clip 4	A harder front, clipped flat so it hits louder.
Snare	Crack	Punch 5, Clip 3	The crack up front, the peak held.
Clap	Snap	Punch 5, Clip 3	A sharper start on every clap.
Perc	Snap	Punch 3, Clip 2	A lighter lift for percussion and hats.
808	Clipped	Punch 2, Clip 4.5	Drives the 808 into the clipper for a louder, denser tone.
808	Sub Lift	Sub 4	More weight at the 808's own note.
Bus	Peak Shave	Clip 2	Takes the top off the peaks and nothing else.

Specifications

Controls: PUNCH, SUB and CLIP. Each one at zero passes the audio through untouched
macOS: Audio Unit, VST3 and Standalone
Windows: VST3 and Standalone
System: macOS 11 or later; Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
Latency: Zero. Nothing to compensate, so it stays in time anywhere in a session
Sample rates: Runs at the session rate
Presets: 9, in Drums, Kick, Snare, Clap, Perc, 808 and Bus folders
Interface: Resizable, from 360 to 1440 points wide
Availability: Free. Version 1.0.0, installed through RSL Hub

Free. Yours to keep.

Install it from RSL Hub, put it on your drums, and turn up only what they need.

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DawgBox works on the hits. For the color of the whole beat, put the RSL Dual Core Saturator on the bus after it.