The Gross Button is a purpose-built pitch effect designed to create the nasty, dissonant, otherworldly guitar tones heard in modern metal, djent, and progressive heavy music.
No menus. No tweaking paralysis. Just brutal results.
Built to sit at the very start of your signal chain, The Gross Button affects your guitar DI before it hits your amp sim delivering tight, unstable, “how-is-this-even-legal” tones that cut through dense mixes.
Activation Policy: Each purchase of The Gross Button includes 2 device activations. These are for non-simultaneous use by a single user (e.g. desktop and laptop).
VST | AU | AAX
MacOS 10.13+ | Windows 10+
2 Activations
License type: One-time purchase
Drop it at the start of your chain
Pick a scene (Gross / Disgust / Putrid)
Turn NUKE & SICKEN until it feels illegal
Bright, tense, and alien. Adds unstable dissonance that cuts through the mix. Perfect for leads and upper-register riffs.
Darker and more sinister. A heavier, uglier flavor of dissonance that adds weight and menace to rhythm parts.
Maximum dissonance. Three-note chaos that sounds wrong in the best way - no mercy.
Nuke Knob = Input Gain
Controls how hard your guitar DI hits the pitch engine. Turning up NUKE pushes the input signal harder before pitch shifting, increasing aggression, instability, and harmonic chaos.
Great for dialing in how violent the effect reacts to your playing, from subtle tension to full meltdown.
Sicken Knob = Wet Signal Mix
Blends the effected signal with your dry tone. Lower settings keep things controlled and usable, while higher settings fully embrace the dissonance.
Perfect for automation, transitions, and finding the exact balance between clarity and absolute grossness.