Name: Woody
Brand: Desert Moon Audio
Price: 49.00 USD
Availability: InStock

DI Acoustic Guitar Enhancer

Your pickup, heard through a pair of studio microphones

Woody is a DI acoustic guitar enhancer plugin for Mac and PC. Plug in a pickup and it gives you back the guitar as a pair of studio microphones would hear it: the body, the air inside it and the space around it.

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 a pickup through Woody. Tap DI for the pickup on its own, at the same moment.

Acoustic 1

Acoustic 2

Acoustic 3

Acoustic 4

Where it goes

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

Dreadnought
A dreadnought pickup gets its body back, the boom kept in check with WOOD.
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Fingerstyle
LIFE and AIR bring out the fingers and the string noise a microphone would hear.
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Strumming
SPACE puts a strummed part in a room, and GLUE keeps the dynamics in one place.
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Tracking
Track through it with the DI blended in, and the take sounds finished on the way in.
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About Woody

Woody is a DI acoustic guitar enhancer. A pickup hears the strings through the bridge; a microphone hears the whole instrument: the top and back moving, the air inside the body, the space around it. Woody puts that back. Plug in a pickup and out comes the guitar as a pair of studio microphones would hear it.

The front panel is the sound. Put Woody on a DI track and it is already right: Dreadnought 1, every control at rest. From there, six walnut-capped knobs and a MIX fader move it wherever the song needs, from a tight, focused part in a busy band to a big, open guitar that carries a song on its own.

Each of the sixteen voicings is a guitar body heard by two microphones, one at the neck and one at the body, spread left and right, with every resonance ringing for as long as it should. Then a gentle input stage gives the playing the bloom and push of a good recording chain.

Key features

Sixteen voicings
Four Studio, eight Dreadnought and four Jumbo, each a different instrument with its own pair of microphones. Change voicing while the track plays and Woody crossfades to the new body without a click.
WOOD
How much the body sings: toward TIGHT the resonances settle into a controlled, even response; toward DEEP they stand out and ring longer for a bigger, woodier guitar.
SPACE
The air around the instrument: a short, diffuse tail either side. Not a reverb; the room a microphone hears.
PICKUP
Every pickup is different: an under-saddle piezo arrives bright and thin, a soundhole magnetic mid-heavy, an internal mic boxy. With PICKUP on, Woody listens for a few seconds and brings any of them to the shape the body was built on, so the voicings sound the same whatever the guitar is wearing. Off leaves the pickup as it is.
MIX
The pickup's own signal, time-aligned, blended back in, for the attack and directness that help a part cut through.
LIFE, AIR and GLUE
LIFE sets how hard the playing pushes forward, AIR adds a broad, silky lift on the top, and GLUE levels a performance into place over phrases.
Track through it
Four samples of latency, so the player hears a miked guitar in the headphones instead of a pickup.
12 factory presets
From Tight and Deep to Open Room and Record.

The panel at a glance

Power The host's bypass, with its pilot lamp.
Body Sixteen voicings: Studio, Dreadnought and Jumbo guitars, each with its own pair of microphones.
Space The air around the instrument. Not a reverb: the room a microphone hears.
Wood How much the body sings: Tight settles the resonances, Deep lets them ring for a bigger guitar.
Pickup Listens for a few seconds and brings piezo, magnetic or internal-mic pickups to the shape the body was built on.
Mix The pickup's own signal, time-aligned, blended back in for attack and directness.
Air A broad, silky lift on the top.
Life How hard the playing pushes forward.
Glue A slow, musical leveller that settles a performance over phrases.
Input & Output Set input once per guitar; output trims the result.

More details

Yes — 14 days, fully featured, from the first time the plugin loads. Every voicing, every control, no interruptions and no signup. When the trial ends, audio passes through dry until a license is entered, so your sessions always open.

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 Woody, click the trial notice on the panel, paste the key — done.

Can’t find the email? Check spam, then write to info@desertmoonaudio.com 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.

Tech specs

Mac: AU, VST3 and AAX — universal, native on Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 10.15 or later.

Windows: VST3 and AAX, 64-bit Windows 10 or later.

DAWs: All major DAWs — Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper and Reason.

Engine: sixteen voicings, each a guitar body heard by a neck and a body microphone; an oversampled input stage; four samples of latency — 44.1 to 192 kHz. Mono in, stereo out.

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