Light the fuse.

• An expert emulation of the original hardware that gives you famous Softube sound quality and raucous Dyna-mite style
• Includes three plug-ins: Dyna-mite Original plus the new, laser-focused Gate and Slam
• Ideal for drums, but primed for earth-shattering experimentation on any sound source

 

In the 1800s, a Swede named Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. In the 1980s, an American named Paul Buff created Dyna-mite. Could the two have ever imagined that, someday, worlds would collide and produce the most perfectly unruly processor plug-in known to man?

Valley People Dyna-mite is a powder keg of character. And what did we do when we got it in Softube’s Swedish lab? Throw more fuel on the fire, of course. Not only is it more versatile and easier to use than ever, but now it’s bigger. We added two highly-concentrated plug-ins, based on the Dyna-mite sound and cloaked in Scandinavian style. Hit the deck—it's Dyna-mite Original, Slam, and Gate!

Legendary Processing, Full Blast

Rock and Awe

Hit the desk!

This isn’t just a bull’s-eye emulation of the original. This is Dyna-mite in software form, with the official license and approval of Valley People to attest to it.

Attack…

And Destroy

This product supports
Extended Features

We love VU meters, Bakelite knobs, and analog quirks. But we want modern precision and workflow. The answer? Softube Extended Features. Easy-access panels with the innovations you need close at hand. 

Explosive Sound

Acclaimed for its color and character, Dyna-mite is the secret weapon of many A-list recording and mixing engineers. The transient, decay, and tone shaping capabilities it possesses—as well as that shattering distortion—make Dyna-mite extraordinary. Use it on kick and room mics, and in parallel on a drum bus. On a snare it makes that distinctive crack sound heard on so many records. It can tighten a busy drum loop and compel it to stand up straight in a mix, or make that swelling room sound that causes the drums to sound longer and to cut through a dense mix.
 

Dynamic Trio

Already an important part of any engineer’s arsenal, we made the original Dyna-mite more versatile in a digital workspace and then used it as the basis for the new Gate and Slam plug-ins. These three Dyna-mite plug-ins make it easier to gate or expand something, create a ducking effect from an external sound source, or to really smash a part but mix it in parallel to the original sound source. With Slam and Gate, you can do more specific and dedicated processing. The updated Dyna-mite Original plug-in is there for expert-level mixing, but Gate and Slam bring the fun and fireworks in a more focused way than ever before.


 

What's Included

Dyna-mite Mk II

The original Dyna-mite hardware is famously not transparent, so the precisely-modeled plug-in is no wallflower either. Use it when you might opt for another compressor known for color and character, and you’ll be shocked at what it can do.

Dyna-mite Slam

Slam is the compressor/limiter of the original Dyna-mite. The guts are there; we just honed in on the things you want this tool to have, such as the parallel compression knob, and made it bang-on simple to interface with. For Dyna-mite, it is as close as possible to a one-knob compressor—the detonator on explosive sound.

 

Dyna-mite Gate

Gate is a two-in-one expander and gate. A pared-down and super-focused version of the expander-gate component of the original Dyna-mite. The auto-release circuit makes it remarkably musical, and you won’t find a gate closer to set-and-forget. The knobs may be standard, but the sound is something to celebrate. Cue the pyrotechnics.