BustdBlown speaker effect · a torn cone that buzzes and rattles, level-matched
The only blown speaker effect you'll ever need to tear the cone on any sound.
Put an 808, a guitar, a drum loop or a vocal through a speaker that was played too loud: fuzzy and broken up, thin in the bass but farting on the low hits, with a buzz on the notes and a rattle on the loud hits. Three speakers, AUTO MAKEUP that keeps it as loud as your dry sound, zero latency.
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Formats and DAWs
Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit): VST3 and AAX
macOS 11 or later: VST3, AU and AAX
Works in any 64-bit DAW that loads VST3, AU or AAX plug-ins.
Licence
Use it on up to five of your own computers per copy you buy. Yours for good, no subscription. Unlock it with your email and a six-digit code, no dongle and no password. It checks in now and then and works offline in between.
Delivery
Download links by email within about five minutes, and always in your account under Downloads.
Hear the difference
The same dry sound, without and with Bustd.
Blown car speaker on an 808
A dry trap 808 loop · Init (CAR, clearly broken but still musical)
Blown-out 808 and drums
A trap drum and 808 loop · Car / Rage 808 (half mix, hard blow and rattle)
How to make a blown-out 808
The same 808 loop · Car / Blown Out 808 (MIX 70 %, the harmonics brought forward)
Razor-slashed amp riff
A dry electric guitar riff · Amp / Razor Riff (a torn amp cone)
Paper in the cone
A dry clean guitar arpeggio · Amp / Paper In The Cone
Phone played too loud
A dry rap hook · Phone / Played Too Loud (a tiny phone speaker pushed past its limit)
Every clip is level-matched, so the difference you hear is tone, not volume.
Bustd in action
Why Bustd
Real damage, not a filter
A torn cone does three things a filter cannot: it buzzes with the notes, rattles on the loud hits and overloads lopsided on the lows. Bustd does all three, keyed by your music.
Blown-out 808s that hit
An 808 through a broken speaker usually comes out weak. AUTO MAKEUP brings the speaker back to your dry level on any material, and MIX runs it in parallel so the 808 keeps its weight.
Two knobs to the exact damage
BLOW sets how badly the speaker is blown, from driven to torn; RATTLE sets the loose cone's rattle. SIZE and TYPE pick the speaker, from a phone to a car door to a guitar amp.
Blow. Rattle.
Two big knobs do the work: how badly the speaker is blown, and how loose its cone rattles on the hits.
- VST3 · AU · AAX
- Windows and macOS
- 0 ms latency
- 14 presets
The blown speaker effect
- Real damage. A buzz that follows the notes, a rattle keyed by the music's own hits, and a torn, lopsided overload from BLOW 50 %.
- Three speakers. A tiny phone speaker, a car door speaker and a guitar amp's cone, with SIZE from 600 Hz - 4 kHz to 80 Hz - 8 kHz.
- Level-matched. AUTO MAKEUP brings the blown speaker to your dry level on any material; OUT makes it louder when you want.
- 808s that hit. MIX runs it in parallel; zero latency.
- BLOW (drive 0 to +40 dB, torn from 50 %), RATTLE (level, ring 6 to 46 ms and sensitivity) and SIZE (the speaker's band).
- TYPE (PHONE, CAR, AMP), crossfaded as you switch.
- AUTO MAKEUP, MIX, IN and OUT with meters, and ENGAGE.
- 14 factory presets and your own preset files; A/B, undo and redo, MIDI Learn on every control; a window from 75 to 200 %; the full manual.
MIX
Blown-out 808s, in parallel.
The torn car speaker at half mix: the 808 keeps its sub while the speaker fizzes, buzzes and rattles on top.
What Bustd does
Every control has one job: the exact broken speaker you hear in your head, faster.
BLOW
From driven to torn in one knob
Raises the drive from 0 to +40 dB, linear in decibels, with a buzz that rides on the notes. Past 50 % the cone tears: the overload goes lopsided and the lows start to fart. The knob reads the drive, and TORN once the tear starts.
RATTLE
A rattle that gets worse as it gets louder
Noise bursts from the loose cone, set off by the music's own low hits: their level, how long they ring (6 to 46 ms) and how soft a hit still triggers them. At 30 % only the loudest hits rattle.
SIZE
From a phone to a woofer
One knob moves the speaker's band from 600 Hz - 4 kHz (a phone speaker) to 80 Hz - 8 kHz (a woofer), with the cheap-speaker hump following. The line under it reads the band.
TYPE
Three speakers that blew
PHONE, a tiny boxy speaker with no bass; CAR, a car door speaker played too loud (the default); AMP, a guitar amp's torn cone. They crossfade as you switch.
AUTO MAKEUP
As loud as your dry sound, on anything
A slow loudness match reads your input and the blown speaker and brings the speaker to your dry level, within 18 dB, whatever the material. It trims over seconds; it does not compress.
IN
Push the cone harder
IN drives the speaker harder for more fuzz and more rattle, and AUTO MAKEUP holds the output level, so you hear more damage, not more volume.
MIX
Parallel blown 808s
The blown speaker against the dry, equal power. 100 % by default; bring it down for an 808 that keeps its sub under the torn speaker.
OUT
Louder when you want it
Gain after AUTO MAKEUP, -24 to +24 dB: the way to make the blown speaker louder than the dry. The speaker's peaks stay under -1 dBFS.
14 sourced presets
Start from settings that work
Torn guitar amps, rage 808s, a trunk subwoofer, a door panel rattle, a phone played too loud and the meme blowout, every one level-matched to the dry.
Zero latency
Track and perform through it
Nothing is delayed, so you can play a guitar or rap through it live.
A face that moves
See the cone tear
The torn cone glows with the output and its flap flashes with every rattle. The speaker goes dark when you bypass.
Inside the plugin
The Bustd window: two big knobs, SIZE, three speakers and AUTO MAKEUP.
Every feature
Everything in Bustd, down to the smallest switch.
33 features
The speaker
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BLOW
Drive 0 to +40 dB with a buzz on the notes; torn and lopsided from 50 %
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RATTLE
The loose cone's rattle, set off by the music's own low hits
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SIZE
From a phone's 600 Hz - 4 kHz to a woofer's 80 Hz - 8 kHz
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TYPE
PHONE, CAR or AMP, crossfaded as you switch
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Read-outs that mean something
The drive in dB, the rattle in dB and ms, the band in Hz
Level and mix
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AUTO MAKEUP
Matches the blown speaker to your dry level, on any material
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IN drives, not louder
More damage from IN while the output holds
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MIX
Equal-power parallel blend, for 808s that keep their weight
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OUT
Louder when you want it, with the speaker's peaks held under -1 dBFS
Workflow and control
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A/B compare and A>B
Two complete settings, switch in one click
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Undo and redo
Step back and forward, or press Ctrl+Z
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MIDI Learn
Take complete control of your workflow: right-click any control, move a knob
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Host automation
Automate every control from your DAW
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ENGAGE
Click-free bypass, to hear the before and after
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IN and OUT meters
See the level going in and coming out at a glance
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Tooltips
Every control explains itself as you point at it
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Resizable window
75 to 200 %, and the size you pick is remembered
Presets
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14 factory presets
Starting points built from real settings producers use
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Previous and next arrows
Audition presets one click at a time
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Save your own
Keep your settings as .blownspeakerpreset preset files
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Open presets folder
Back up or share your presets in one click
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Reset to default
Back to a clean start in one step
Performance
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Zero latency
Track and perform through it live
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Mono or stereo
One cone: a mono 808 stays mono, a stereo mix keeps its image
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Audio-reactive face
The cone glows with the output; the flap flashes with the rattle
Licence and compatibility
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VST3 and AAX, Windows 7 SP1 or later
Loads in any 64-bit Windows DAW with VST3 or AAX
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VST3, AU and AAX, macOS 10.13 or later
Loads in any Mac DAW with VST3, AU or AAX, Intel or ARM
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5 computers per copy
Studio, laptop and more on one licence
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Email and code unlock
No dongle, no password, no extra app
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Works offline
No internet needed between check-ins
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Check for updates
From the plugin's menu; nothing installs without asking
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Lifetime updates
Every future update included
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Platinum priority support
Questions answered by the people who build it
How Bustd compares
Real speaker damage in one insert, with the controls most leave out.
| Bustd | Typical speaker and distortion plugins | |
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| The damage | Buzz on the notes and a rattle on the loud hits | Distortion and a filter |
| Torn cone | Lopsided, farting overload from BLOW 50 % | Even, symmetric clipping |
| Speakers | PHONE, CAR and AMP, with SIZE from phone to woofer | One speaker colour |
| Level | AUTO MAKEUP matches your dry sound on anything | Louder or weaker as you push it |
| 808s | MIX for parallel blown-out 808s | Often no mix control |
| Latency | 0 ms | Often some |
| Try-and-compare | A/B, A>B, undo and redo | Often missing |
| Hardware control | MIDI Learn on every control | Often host automation only |
| Licence | 5 computers per copy, no dongle, works offline | Often fewer activations, or a dongle |
| Updates | Lifetime updates included | Often paid upgrades |
"Typical" describes what we commonly see in this category; it does not describe any particular product. Bustd facts are from the plugin and its manual, October 2026.
What you get
Vox Samples
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Specs and system requirements
- Formats
- VST3 and AAX on Windows; VST3, AU and AAX on macOS
- Operating system
- Windows 7 SP1 or later, 64-bit; macOS 10.13 or later, universal (Intel and ARM)
- Host
- Any 64-bit DAW that loads VST3, AU or AAX plug-ins
- Channels
- Mono or stereo (one cone: the stereo image is kept)
- Sample rates
- Whatever your session runs at
- Latency
- 0 samples
- Blow
- Drive 0 to +40 dB (+16 dB at the default 40 %); the torn cone's asymmetry from 50 %
- Rattle
- Noise bursts at 1-3 kHz keyed by the music's lows; ring 6 to 46 ms
- Size
- Band 600 Hz - 4 kHz at 0 %, 219 Hz - 5.7 kHz at 50 %, 80 Hz - 8 kHz at 100 %
- Types
- PHONE, CAR (default) and AMP, crossfaded over 30 ms
- Auto makeup
- Matches the speaker to the dry's loudness, within 18 dB, over a 3 s window
- Presets
- 14 factory presets; your own as .blownspeakerpreset files
- Tail
- Reported to your DAW: 0.5 s
- Window
- 960 x 600 at 100 %, resizable from 75 to 200 %
- MIDI
- MIDI Learn from any controller routed to the track
- Licence
- 5 computers per copy you buy. Unlock with your email and a code we email you. Checks in now and then and works offline in between.
- Internet
- Needed once to unlock, then for the occasional check-in
90Day money-back guarantee
Our guarantee
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90-day money-back guarantee
Not for you? Email contact@voxsamples.com within 90 days for a full refund.
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5 computers per copy
Use it on up to five of your own computers per copy you buy, and move it yourself from the plugin's Licence menu.
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Lifetime updates
Every future update and upgrade of Bustd, included.
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Platinum priority support
A real person at contact@voxsamples.com, first in line.
Try Bustd free
The whole plugin, with the same sound as the full version and no time limit. It goes silent for a moment every few seconds; the full version never does.
Windows and macOS installers in one download. Like what you hear? Get the full version on this page, with a 90-day money-back guarantee.
Questions
How do I make a blown-out 808?
Put it on the 808 and load Car / Blown Out 808 or Car / Rage 808: the 808 through a torn car speaker, mixed in parallel so it keeps its sub. Raise BLOW for more tear and RATTLE for more junk on the hits.
Will it get louder as I push it?
No. AUTO MAKEUP matches the blown speaker to your dry level, so BLOW and IN change the damage, not the volume. Turn OUT up when you want it louder.
Does it work on guitars and vocals?
Yes. The Amp presets tear a guitar amp's cone; the Phone presets put a vocal on a tiny broken speaker. Guitars and vocals rattle less than 808s, because the rattle follows the low hits; raise RATTLE for more.
Why does the level move in the first seconds?
AUTO MAKEUP is reading your track. It settles within a few seconds and then holds; play a loop through once before you judge or bounce a short clip.
Can I use it live?
Yes. It adds no latency, so you can play or sing through it in real time.
Does it work in my DAW?
Any 64-bit DAW that loads VST3, AU or AAX plug-ins, on Windows 7 SP1 or later or macOS 10.13 or later. There is no standalone app.
How many computers can I use it on?
Up to five of your own for each copy you buy. To move it, deactivate it in the plugin on the old computer and unlock it on the new one.
Does it need the internet?
Once, to unlock it with the code we email you. After that it checks in now and then and works offline in between.
Is there a manual?
Yes. The full manual explains every control, every preset and the menus, with tips. It opens from the help key (?) in the plugin's top bar, and lives at https://voxsamples.com/bustd-blown-speaker-effect-manual.
What if it's not for me?
Request a refund from your account within 90 days.
Founder's Story
"When COVID hit, I finally had time to dive into music production—only to discover I was missing the right tools. The plugins I tried were clunky, overloaded with unnecessary features, and killed my vibe with endless tweaking. I knew there had to be a better way.
So, with my engineering background, I started making free and simple audio plugins for my producer friends. They loved them! That’s when I set out on a mission to create plugins that save you time, streamline your workflow, and keep your creativity flowing."
- Ryan Svensson (Founder & CEO)
Every blown speaker you've heard. One insert.
A torn cone that buzzes and rattles, three speakers, level-matched by AUTO MAKEUP, at zero latency.
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