Lossy

A screenshot of the Lossy interface
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  • “I absolutely love my options while using Goodhertz plugins. I love adding some grit to a sample using Lossy and Wow Control to give it some serious character. Goodhertz gives me every color in the coloring box.”

    Melvin “Chaos” Lewis Multi-Platinum Producer (Jaden Smith “Icon”/”Plastic,” Black Eyed Peas, Logic, The Roots)

  • “I’ve been using their plug‑ins for years. The Lossy plug‑in is probably my favourite. It kind of effs up the audio, which is what I like about it.”

    Charlie Handsome Multi-platinum producer & songwriter (Post Malone, Jack Harlow, Travis Scott, Juice WRLD)

  • “There is a plugin we used very effectively [on Phoebe Bridger’s Punisher] that shall go unnamed, so that you at home can’t imitate this record.”

    Tony Berg

  • “Your plugins have been my rock. I don’t use anything else if I can get away with it. Megaverb and Lossy in particular go on most tunes.”

    Scott Harper a.k.a KNOBS

Lossy

Digital artifacts, on demand.

What is Lossy? It’s the infinitely desirable sound of crappy mp3’s, broken cellphones, streaming videos, and much more. Everything you thought you hated, but maybe now you don’t?

Are you ready to nostalgize the beautiful harmonics of heavily compressed digital audio? Are you ready to enter the underwater cathedral?

Downloads 💾

Download the latest version of Lossy on the Downloads page.
Advanced Controls

Lossy has 1 page of advanced controls. Click on the image below to see the advanced page in detail. You can also read about the advanced controls in the plugin manual.

Lossy advanced page 1

The History of Lossy

In June of 2014, producer & friend-of-Goodhertz, Tyler Duncan, wanted a certain drum fill to sound like the year 2001 — that is, like a low bitrate digital mp3 ripped from KaZaA.

We understood him immediately. Since the dawn of the second recording format, mankind has longed for the aesthetic imperfections of the previous recording format.

“Would a bitcrusher do?” No, Tyler didn’t have 8-bit in mind. He wanted lossy digital audio: streaming music on a 56k modem, an mp3 ripped from a CD-R, light jazz music streamed over a cellphone, a YouTube video uploaded in 2007. What if a plugin could degrade digital audio and simulate those quintessential compressed sounds in realtime?

So we built Lossy: artifacts of heavily compressed audio in a highly tweakable realtime plugin.

-> Original blog post from 2015 about the story behind Lossy: “Lossy’s Uncharted Waters”

Lossy in use