Built from playing experience
The design starts with what matters under the fingers: attack, note weight, dynamics and the way a bass part sits when the band gets loud.
About
Built by bass players, for bass that has to carry a room.
Optymyse Audio is the plugin arm of Optymyse, focused on bass tools with character, control and a clear sense of heritage.
The company is led by a founder and CEO who has spent more than 30 years as a working musician and bassist, playing across the North West in pubs, clubs, theatres, festivals and support slots. That background matters: these plugins are built around the practical details that show up on stage and in sessions, not just on spec sheets.
Those years included sharing bills with genuinely legendary British rock royalty. We are keeping that reference understated, because the point is not a borrowed badge of fame. The point is that loud rooms, fast changeovers, imperfect monitoring and real bass parts teach you very quickly what a rig has to do.
The idea
Old-school instinct. Modern control.
The best bass gear has a way of making decisions feel obvious. It adds weight without blur, edge without fizz, and control without flattening the part. Optymyse Audio exists to put that feeling into focused, reliable tools for current production setups.
Heritage without museum glass
Classic circuits and rig ideas are treated as starting points, then shaped for recall, automation and modern plugin workflows.
Bass first, mix ready
The plugins are voiced around low-end translation and useful control, not generic channel-strip behaviour with a bass label on it.
What we make
Plugins with a player’s bias.
Our first line centres on bass preamp weight, VCA dynamics and parallel rig control: the kind of signal-chain thinking that lets a bass part be clean, driven, compressed and still alive.
We are not trying to make giant do-everything processors. The aim is smaller and harder: tools that sound intentional quickly, survive repeated use, and keep the low end honest.
Formats
VST3, CLAP and Darkglass Anagram
Desktop plugins first, with hardware-aware thinking where it makes sense. Clean installs, clear controls and no unnecessary ceremony.
Contact
Talk bass, plugins or odd old rigs.
Questions, early feedback, artist enquiries and compatibility notes are all welcome. If you care about bass tone enough to have opinions, you are probably the right person to talk to us.