Name: Meat Shop
Brand: Desert Moon Audio
Price: 59.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Meat Shop MS-10 - Desert Moon Audio plug-in

Sub Weight / Tube Fattener

The last box on the bass chain

Meat Shop is a sub bass and tube saturation plugin for Mac and PC: tuned low-end weight through a Class-A triode stage, the last box on the bass chain.

14-DAY FREE TRIAL

Full version, free for 14 days. No payment details needed.

Works with all major DAWs

AU / VST3 / AAX for Mac · VST3 / AAX for PC

Yours forever — no subscription

Instant download after purchase

Hear the difference

Press play to hear it through Meat Shop. Tap DRY for the original, at the same moment.

Pad

Electronic Bass

Bass

Kick

Where it goes

Four of the places it lives, each with a demo above.

Pads
GUT under a pad adds weight you feel more than hear, through the tube for warmth.
Hear it
Electronic bass
A sub under an 808 or a synth bass, tuned to the note, with HEAT so it speaks on small speakers.
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Bass guitar
The last box on a bass chain: floor, girth and a little tube grit.
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Kick
A tuned boost under a kick and the whole track gets a floor.
Hear it

About Meat Shop

The MS-10 does one job: weight at 50 Hz you feel in the gut, wrapped in Class-A tube warmth. GUT is a tuned bell placed before the tube, so the frequencies you ask for more of are exactly the ones that drive the triode.

The signal splits at 180 Hz. The low band runs into a Class-A triode stage — second harmonic first, an operating point that drifts with the playing, and a power supply that sags up to 3.5 dB under a held bass note. That push-then-bloom is the thing you feel in the chest, and those even harmonics are what small speakers translate as weight.

Both bands recombine through output iron — flux-based transformer saturation borrowed from our tape engine, which distorts in the bass and stays clean on top. Exactly this box's job description.

Key features

GUT and FREQ
Up to +14 dB of weight, tunable from 35 to 80 Hz. 50 is the number on the box.
HEAT
Class-A triode drive, 0 to +30 dB — and level-compensated by construction, so the knob changes the meat, not the volume.
MEAT
The console send trick in one knob: a vari-mu compressor that hears only the gut band and returns its squashed copy in parallel under the dry signal. The deep end comes forward contained; nothing at mud height is touched.
FLOOR
SUB (18 Hz) or TIGHT (30 Hz) high-pass under everything.
Delay-aligned MIX
Parallel weight that never comb-filters.
A VU that means it
Real 300 ms ballistics, 0 VU at −18 dBFS, a latched clip lamp in the bezel — and the tube jewel, idling at a deep ember and breathing with the sag.
The whole nonlinear chain runs at 4x oversampling, and bypass is ramped, click-free and host-linked.

Meat Shop panel, with its controls numbered

The panel at a glance

VU meter Real 300 ms ballistics, 0 VU at −18 dBFS, with a latched clip lamp in the corner.
Gut Up to +14 dB of weight at the tuned frequency, boosted before the tube so the triode answers with its harmonics.
Meat The console send trick in one knob: parallel vari-mu on the gut band only. Nothing at mud height is touched.
Output Level, unity at 7.
Freq Where the weight sits, 35 to 80 Hz. 50 is the number on the box.
Heat Class-A triode drive, level-compensated: it changes the meat, not the volume.
Floor SUB (18 Hz) or TIGHT (30 Hz) high-pass under everything.
Mix Parallel blend, phase-aligned, so it never comb-filters.
Tube The jewel. Idles at a deep ember and glows as the triode works.
Byp True bypass, ramped and click-free; it also puts the meter lamp out.

More details

Yes — 14 days, fully featured, from the first time the plugin loads. The whole signal path, every control, no interruptions and no signup. When the trial ends, audio passes through dry until a license is entered, so your sessions are never damaged.

Yes. It's a one-off purchase, not a subscription, and there's nothing to renew. Updates to a plugin you own are free — download the current installer and run it over the top.

Every plugin is sold on its own, so you can buy just the one you want.

Your license covers up to 4 computers you personally own — studio desktop, laptop, spares. Enter the same key on each; the first activation on a machine takes one quick internet check; after that it works offline, apart from a once-a-day check for a newer version. Moving on from a computer? Deactivate This Machine in the plugin's preset menu hands the seat back, and if a machine dies before you can, just ask us.

Your download link and license key are in the order confirmation email sent at purchase. Run the installer, open Meat Shop, click the notice on the panel, paste the key — done.

Can't find the email? Check spam, then contact us and we'll resend it.

Yes — after activation. Entering your license key needs an internet connection once; from then on it works offline — the only other time it goes online is a once-a-day check for a newer version.