LODESTAR AUDIO

Independent plugins · built for heavy music

Plugins that don't exist anywhere else.

Two plugins for heavy and prog guitar: Doppel turns one take into a convincing double, and Basalt turns your guitar into a bass.

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Mono-safe

Doppel goes wide up top but keeps the lows centred — so it holds together when your mix folds to mono.

What Lodestar is about

Four things we believe

Hear it first

A/B every plugin against the real thing right here — Doppel against a real double take, Basalt against a real bass. Hear exactly what it does before you decide.

Reinvent, never re-skin

We only ship when we can rebuild how a category actually works. Doppel doesn't detune a copy like every other doubler — it generates a genuinely separate take.

Pay once, it's yours

One price, no subscription, free updates for life. Activate once and it runs fully offline — no account to log into, no phone-home, no nonsense.

Has to hold up in the mix

A tone that only works soloed is useless. Ours are built to survive mono fold-down — phones, clubs, streaming — and sit right in a busy arrangement.

Doppel Shipping · v1.3

A transparent, mono-compatible doubler for heavy & prog guitar.

Generates a genuinely separate take through chaotic phase decorrelation — clean and wide, with none of the phasing of ordinary doublers, and solid when the mix folds to mono.

See Doppel →
Basalt Shipping · v1.0

A bass guitar emulation, from an electric guitar DI.

A dual-engine DI-to-bass converter that keeps your real pick attack — not pitch-to-MIDI, not a synth. Built for drop tunings, three latency modes. Hear it vs. a real bass.

See Basalt →

The catalog

The constellation grows

Doppel
Shipping · v1.3
Basalt
Shipping · v1.0
Lodestone
Amp engine · in design
Sextant
Guitar pitch correction · in design

Two shipping now; two on the bench. Lodestone, a produced-tone amp engine, and Sextant, which gets a loose guitar take back in tune, are in the works.