ManualDI Regan plugin →

DI Regan

A mono acoustic-DI channel strip: it turns a thin, quacky acoustic DI (piezo / magnetic / SBT) into a mic’d acoustic through a PA in a room. A full series chain — Input → Quack Tamer → Guitar IR → 4-band Saturator → Compressor → Anti-Feedback → PA/Room → Output. Part of the suite but completely standalone (no brain, no shared state).

CODE Rgn1FORMAT AU · VST3 · StandaloneCATEGORY Acoustic DI Channel StripBUNDLE com.inotrak.di-regan

The interface - every control mapped

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1Presets - Voiced starters; < > step them, the name opens the menu; save · copy · undo · redo · options.

2ACTIVE · POL - Bypass and polarity.

3Input - HPF (freq + 12/24 dB/oct) · Pickup US/MAG/SBT/LINE.

4Quack Tamer - Dynamic dip over the piezo quack — Amount · Freq · Sens.

5Guitar IR - The body/mic core — ON · pick an IR · Remove · Low/High trims · live IR curve.

64-Band Saturator - Crossovers (drag or type) → four bands; per-band Drive / Gain / Solo.

7Compressor - Acoustic-voiced glue — Amount, transfer curve, Ratio · Attack · Release · Makeup.

8Anti-Feedback - Engage · Phase Rotate · Sensitivity + manual N1/N2 notches.

9PA / Room - Engage · ALGO/IR speaker · Room Type · Tone · Push · Size/Distance/HF Damp/Pre-Delay.

10Meters - In / Out and the output fader.

11Input / Output / Mute - Input trim, output level, mute.

Quick start

Insert on a mono acoustic DI track; set the Pickup type (US / MAG / SBT / LINE).
Clean the input: HPF + Trim, then load or pick a Guitar IR (the body/mic core).
Dial the 4-Band Saturator and Compressor to taste (it’s a full series strip — no dry/wet blend).
Optional: engage PA / Room for the “amplified in a space” voicing; add Push for moving air.

Input & Quack Tamer

Trim / Polarity / HPF

Input gain (−24…+24 dB), phase invert, and a high-pass with a 12 / 24 dB/oct slope switch.

Pickup type

US / MAG / SBT / LINE — voices the strip for your source and sets the Quack Tamer defaults; filters the guitar-IR browser (does not hard-gate loading).

Quack Tamer

A dynamic dip over the piezo “quack” region — ducks on transients, leaves sustained tone alone (not a static notch). Amount / Freq (1.5–4 kHz) / Sens.

Guitar IR & Saturator

Guitar IR

Zero-latency convolution — the body/mic core. ON, the IR picker (embedded factory IRs or *Load from file…*), Remove, and Low / High trims for the IR extremes.

4-Band Saturator

Linkwitz-Riley crossovers into one shared, oversampled saturation curve. Three moveable crossovers = four bands; per band Drive (loudness-compensated — pushing changes tone, not level), Gain, Solo (for dialling).

Compressor & Anti-Feedback

Compressor

Gentle, program-dependent, acoustic-voiced glue. Amount macro (auto makeup) with Ratio / Attack / Release / Makeup always on show for detail; a live transfer-curve graph.

Anti-FeedbackLive

Catches resonant peaks (including ones the IR itself creates) before the room adds reflections. OFF/ON + Sensitivity (a bank of auto-hunting notches) and Phase Rotate for extra gain-before-feedback.

PA / Room & Output

PA / Room

The final “arriving in a space through a PA” voicing. Engage (section master), Speaker ALGO vs IR, Room Type Stage/Club/Theatre/Hall (algorithmic), Push (LF-weighted saturation + level-dependent compression — the “moving air” no IR reproduces), and Size / Distance / HF Damp / Pre-Delay / Tone (Pre-Delay: 0-40 ms before the room’s reflections arrive). Distance also sets wetness (further = wetter) — there is no separate room-mix knob.

Output

Trim (output level) and Mute. Mono in → mono out throughout; zero added latency except the saturator oversampling (reported to the host).

DI Regan is standalone — no brain, no shared state — and mono by design (width is another plugin’s job). Presets group by pickup type; every value is a starting point to tune by ear.