DryerDe-reverb effect · turns the room and the tails down on voices and drums
Closer, drier vocals without a new room.
Recorded in a bedroom, a bathroom or a booth that rings? Dryer turns the room down where you hear it most: the tails after every word, note or hit and the gaps between them. One knob, zero latency, and DELTA to hear exactly what it takes away.
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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 roomy recording, without and with Dryer.
A sung verse in a tiled bathroom, the tails cut short
A dry sung verse heard in a real hotel bathroom · Closer Vocal (the default)
A voice line with its reverb baked in, the tails pulled back
Spoken lines with a reverb already printed on them · Dialogue / Room Echo
A voice-over in a small bedroom, closer
Dry spoken lines heard in a real treated bedroom · Voice / Untreated Room
Snare ring and room, tightened
A close-miked acoustic drum loop heard in a tiled bathroom · Drums / Snare Tighten
A drum loop in a small room, the mic pulled closer
A close-miked funk drum loop heard in a real bedroom · Room Mic / Pull Closer
Every clip is level-matched, so the difference you hear is tone, not volume.
Dryer in action
Why Dryer
Closer in one turn
REDUCE turns each of three bands down while it rings on its own, after every word, note or hit. At the default the tails after a phrase come down about 5 dB and ring about a quarter shorter, and the voice sits closer.
Drier between the lines
GAPS sets a floor between phrases that follows your voice's level, so a quiet take and a loud one get the same treatment. Turn it up and the spaces go dry.
Hear exactly what goes
DELTA plays only what is being taken away: the room and the tails. If you hear words in it, back off. Every preset stays within a fraction of a dB of your level.
Reduce. Gaps.
Two big knobs do the work: how far the room's tails come down, and how dry the spaces between phrases go.
- VST3 · AU · AAX
- Windows and macOS
- 0 ms latency
- 12 presets
The de-reverb effect
- The room comes down. At the default the tails after a phrase drop about 5 dB and ring about a quarter shorter.
- Voice or drums. DRUMS shortens a snare's ring and a room mic's wash, with nothing gated.
- Zero latency by default. Record, stream or call through it; HQ adds a 10 ms look-ahead when you mix.
- Your level, kept. No make-up gain; every preset within 0.1 LU of the input on average.
- REDUCE, GAPS and FOCUS; VOICE or DRUMS.
- DELTA, HQ, the CUT and FLOOR meters.
- MIX, IN and OUT with meters, and ENGAGE.
- 12 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.
DRUMS
Shorter ring. Tighter room.
Switch to DRUMS and each hit's ring and the room after it shorten, with nothing gated. Aim FOCUS at the snare's ring or the toms' boom.
What Dryer does
Every control has one job: a closer, drier take, faster.
REDUCE
The room comes down
Each of three bands (below 250 Hz, 250 Hz to 4 kHz, above 4 kHz) is turned down while it is dying away, up to 15 dB at 100 %. 50 % by default. The line under it reads OFF, LIGHT, CLOSER or DRY.
GAPS
Drier between the lines
A floor between phrases that follows your voice's level, from 40 dB under it at 0 % to 12 dB under at 100 %. Above 30 % it opens the floor up to 18 dB deep. The line reads FLOOR OFF, FLOOR ON or NO FLOOR.
FOCUS
Aim at the room you have
Toward LOW the boomy low end of a small room is cut hardest; toward HIGH the bright splash of tiles and glass. CENTRE treats all three bands alike.
TYPE
Voice or drums
VOICE: the cut plus the floor between phrases. DRUMS: the cut only, so each hit's ring and the room after it shorten and nothing is gated.
DELTA
Hear what is taken away
One key in the footer plays only the room and the tails being removed. A quick way to set REDUCE: if you hear words in it, turn down.
HQ
Cleaner word starts
Off by default for zero latency. On, it looks 10 ms ahead, so the start of each word keeps more of its attack; the 10 ms are reported to your host.
MIX
Blend some room back
The dried sound against the original. 100 % by default; lower it for a natural, less dry result.
IN and OUT
Gain where you need it
Input and output gain, -24 to +24 dB, with meters. The floor follows your level on its own, so gain staging does not change the result.
12 sourced presets
Start from settings that work
Close vocals, untreated rooms, podcasts, room echo on a stream, sung legato lines, a boomy bedroom, snare ring, tom ring, room mics and overheads.
A face that moves
See the room dry out
The flooded floor dries in puddles as Dryer cuts and the water spreads back as it lets go; the far window glows with the output. In silence it rests.
Inside the plugin
The Dryer window: two big knobs, the aim, the type and the meters.
Every feature
Everything in Dryer, down to the smallest switch.
35 features
The room
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REDUCE
Each band turned down while it rings on its own, up to 15 dB
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GAPS
A floor between phrases that follows your level
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FOCUS
Aim at a boomy room or a bright, splashy one
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TYPE
VOICE with the floor, or DRUMS without it
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Three bands
Split at 250 Hz and 4 kHz; they add back to your sound exactly
Hear and blend
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DELTA
Hear only the room and the tails being taken away
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HQ
10 ms look-ahead keeps each word's start
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MIX
Blend the dried sound with the original
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CUT and FLOOR meters
See how far the room is being turned down
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Level held
Every preset within 0.1 LU of your level on average
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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12 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 .dereverbpreset 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 by default
Record, stream or call through it live
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Measured CPU
About 3.5 to 4 % of one core for a voice
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Mono or stereo
On a voice-over, a vocal, a drum bus or a room mic
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Audio-reactive face
The floor dries as the room comes down
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 Dryer compares
Zero latency, DELTA and a drums mode, with the controls most leave out.
| Dryer | Typical de-reverb plugins | |
|---|---|---|
| Latency | 0 ms by default; 10 ms with HQ | Often a buffer or more, always |
| Hear what goes | DELTA, one click | Often missing |
| Drums | A DRUMS type for snare ring and room mics | Often voice only |
| Aim | FOCUS at a boomy or a splashy room | One broadband amount |
| Level | Every preset within 0.1 LU of your level | Often louder or quieter |
| Controls | Two big knobs and three keys | Pages of settings |
| 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. Dryer facts are from the plugin and its manual, October 2026.
What you get
Vox Samples
90-day money back · Thank you
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
- Sample rates
- Whatever your session runs at
- Latency
- 0 samples by default; 10 ms with HQ (441 samples at 44.1 kHz, 480 at 48 kHz), reported to your DAW
- Bands
- Three, split at 250 Hz and 4 kHz; they add back to the input exactly
- Reduce
- Each band's sustain cut 0 to -15 dB (-7.5 dB at the default 50 %); above 50 % the floor opens up to 18 dB
- Gaps
- The floor's threshold 40 dB under the programme's level at 0 % to 12 dB under at 100 %; above 30 % it opens the floor too
- Measured
- At the default, on 15 sung and spoken takes in real rooms: tails after a phrase -5.2 dB, ringing 0.74 times as long, loudness within 0.1 LU
- Presets
- 12 factory presets; your own as .dereverbpreset files
- Tail
- None
- 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 Dryer, included.
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Platinum priority support
A real person at contact@voxsamples.com, first in line.
Try Dryer 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
Does it take away all the reverb?
No, and nothing honest at zero latency does. Dryer turns the room down where it rings on its own: the tails after each word, note or hit, and the gaps between them. The reverb that sits under a word stays, so a very wet room comes out shorter rather than dry. On a close vocal in a small room the result sounds clearly closer.
How do I use it on a vocal recorded at home?
Start on the default, Closer Vocal. Turn REDUCE up until the tails are as short as you want and the words still start cleanly, then turn GAPS up to dry the spaces between phrases. Press DELTA: if you hear words in it, back off.
Will it cut the start of my words?
A little: at zero latency the first 10 ms of a word come down about 4 dB on average. Switch on HQ when you mix: it looks 10 ms ahead and keeps more of each word's start; your host lines up the 10 ms.
Does it work on drums?
Yes. Switch TYPE to DRUMS: each hit's ring and the room after it shorten, and nothing is gated. Drums / Snare Tighten, Drums / Tom Ring, Room Mic / Pull Closer and Drums / Overheads are ready to go.
Will it change my level?
No. It only turns the room down, with no make-up gain, and every preset sits within 0.1 LU of your level on average.
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/dryer-de-reverb-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)
The room you recorded in. Turned down.
Shorter tails, drier gaps and a closer voice, at zero latency, with DELTA to hear exactly what goes.
$42.55 AUDRegular price $141.86 AUD70% off
- 90-day money back
- Five computers
- Lifetime updates
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