Mouth of Sorrow ($15, less, or free) is the second addition to the Freakshow Industries Vaporware Series of mutated classics.
This multi-voice chorus plugin comes after the similarly disturbing multi-delay, The Dream Eater.
Freakshow Industries is also the company that gave us Pocket Dimension back in 2022.
Mouth of Sorrow has three voices, each with Phase, Depth, Rate, and Shape controls.
Surprisingly, from a plugin with a GUI that is a face made of faces, with a single voice engaged and modest settings, you get a pretty tame chorus effect.
It drifts enough to create interest and tension but isn’t wild; it’s lovely.
Of course, modesty isn’t the goal here; Mouth of Sorrow is about experimental sound design, and that’s where it excels.
With two or all three voices engaged and contrasting settings, you get a chaotic undercurrent, pulling and bending the sound in every direction.
You can make a sound entirely unrecognizable, but I like hearing enough of the dry sound to make it seem like it’s not a new sound; it’s the same sound, just being pulled into the dark side by Freakshow Industries.
Dramatic descriptions aside, it’s a very cool tool for experimental sound design, games, soundtracks, etc.
If you crank the Mind control, the effect is drenched in space and reflections, making it sound even more ominous in most cases.
The Vaporware Series will continue until the developer gets tired of it, which is a fittingly vague timeline for the talented non-conformists.
Freakshow Industries would definitely be the anti-hero if there were a movie about plugin developers, a small group of couldn’t-care-less social misfits who choose to exist, unapologetically, outside the mainstream.
While everyone else proceeds in blissful ignorance, Freakshow Industries is busy creating “audio tools for the end times.”
Like any good anti-hero, they present an alternative image, twisted and mangled, even, but given the chance to do good, they almost certainly will.
In this case, and in real life, not the fictional B-movie pitch above, the apocalyptic-themed developer plays the role of people’s champion by making their plugins freely available to all.
You can buy at full price, buy for less, or steal and pay nothing.
If you choose to steal and select the appropriate reason from the shortlist of blunt excuses, you’ll get potentially limited support and no upgrades but an otherwise fully functioning license.
Mouth of Sorrow is available in 64-bit AU, VST, VST3, and AAX formats for macOS (10.13 and higher) and Windows (10 and higher).
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Last Updated on January 21, 2025 by Tomislav Zlatic.
