Hell Yes Loop Lab has released new audio plugin built around a single narrow, cinematic, spring-driven electric guitar voice rather than a menu of amps and cabinets.
Ask the Dust pulls different guitars toward the same defined character instead of modeling a specific rig, with the spring mechanism built into the voice itself rather than added afterward as reverb.
The mechanical spring response can keep moving after a note stops and the guitar has begun to fade, exposing the metallic character of the mechanism on its own. The plugin explores a family of dry, narrow electric guitar tones associated with 1960s film scores, surf guitar, and spaghetti western guitar, without reproducing any specific artist or recording.
Ask the Dust is not built around choosing between amps, cabinets, eras or models. It starts with one defined voice and lets you decide how far the guitar should fall into it.
Ask the Dust features
- PULL: How strongly the guitar is drawn into the machine’s character, rather than acting as a wet/dry mix control.
- STRIKE: Pick attack, from soft and rounded to hard and percussive.
- WIRE: How much of the metallic spring mechanism is audible.
- TRAIL: How long the springs keep moving after a note fades.
- PRINT: Moves the result from open and dynamic toward narrower, compressed, and worn.
- LEVEL: Final output control.
Ask the Dust is available for Windows and macOS (VST3/AU), priced $9.50 USD through September 30th, 2026 (regular $19 USD).
More information: Hell Yes Loop Lab
