Gain staging before the gate and live meters.
Abyssal CoreAbyssal Core product overview
Abyssal Audio's first multi-amp suite: ANRS guitar and bass voices, polished amp-page workflow, cab controls, Mangle, and a Windows VST3 delivery path.
Public checkout opens after the signed installer, Stripe webhook, and fulfillment path are verified.
Signal chain
Abyssal Core keeps the surfaces guitarist-readable and the routing purposeful. Guitar mode is built around tight gain, Mangle blend, cab control, and limiting. Bass mode runs multiple lanes so clean lows, grind, clank, and saw can be balanced without hiding the bass under the guitars.
Fast cleanup for start-stop riffs and low-tuned rests.
High-pass focus before the drive stages.
Preamp push before the main saturation block.
Abyssal ANRS amp voice selected from the Core roster.
Parallel fixed-character chainsaw lane.
Stock cab responses plus owned user IR loading into the current cab path.
Bounded output for hostile settings.
Release packaging
The current buyer artifact is AbyssalCore-0.1.0-Windows.exe. The GitHub Actions workflow named Windows Installer builds tests, builds the VST3, packages the NSIS installer, verifies the expected executable exists, and uploads it as an artifact.
Abyssal Core is a paid beta, not a final product. Future individual Abyssal amp products are planned as direct amp-name releases, but downloadable amp imports are not a working customer feature in this build. Buyer-facing release still requires the Windows installer, Stripe fulfillment, support/refund path, and manual REAPER smoke checks to be verified before real payments are enabled.
Install targetC:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Abyssal Core.vst3
Launch caveatInstaller signing is not present yet, so SmartScreen warnings are expected.
Host caveatManual REAPER scanning remains a launch gate.