bathROOMs
Key Features
- Five selectable bathroom spaces cover Porcelain, Cove, Greenhouse, Lavender, and Baldosa room characters.
- Room-shaping controls translate familiar reverb tasks into Position, Surface, Temp, Wash, and Slap adjustments.
- Decay, pre-delay, and dry/wet controls keep the plugin usable as a normal insert or send reverb.
- Built-in ducker can reduce reverb while the source plays, with threshold, ratio, attack, release, and optional external sidechain control.
- Two A/B slots with copy, undo, and redo support quick comparison while dialing in a space.
- Resizable interface, dark mode, and room illustrations keep the unusual concept easy to navigate.
- Includes 27 artist presets from five mix engineers and producers as practical starting points.
Description
bathROOMs is a character reverb from Hot Shower Audio built around five bathroom-inspired spaces rather than the usual hall, room, chamber, and plate labels. It gives producers a fast way to place vocals, guitars, synths, drums, and effect returns inside small bright tiles, warmer rooms, darker spaces, and a Colombian Baldosa bathroom model.
The main controls stay tied to the room concept. Position changes distance, depth, width, and brightness; Surface moves from hard reflective materials toward towels and curtains; Temp tilts the tone from cold and bright to warmer and softer; Wash blends clear reflections into a more diffuse cloud; and Slap adds the short echo of parallel walls.
A second panel adds a built-in ducker with threshold, ratio, attack, release, and optional external sidechain input. That makes bathROOMs useful on vocals and leads where the reverb should step back while the dry signal is present, then bloom into the gaps without drawing automation.
The plugin is more interesting as a themed, hands-on room designer than as a clean all-purpose reverb replacement. Its visual concept, A/B slots, copy controls, undo/redo, resizable interface, dark mode, and artist presets make it a practical option for producers who want unusual short spaces, quirky ambience, and quick ducked reverb effects.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What makes bathROOMs different from a normal room reverb?
Instead of offering generic room size labels, bathROOMs focuses on five bathroom-inspired spaces with controls that shape materials, temperature, distance, reflection density, and slap echo. The result is more of a character room tool than a transparent utility reverb.
Can bathROOMs duck the reverb behind a vocal?
Yes. The plugin includes a second-page ducker with threshold, ratio, attack, and release controls, and it can react to the source signal or an external sidechain input.
What are the five room models?
The official page and launch coverage list Lavender, Porcelain, Cove, Greenhouse, and Baldosa. Baldosa is described as a Colombian bathroom model with hydraulic tile and an electric shower.
Is bathROOMs meant for realistic spaces or creative ambience?
It can produce usable room tones, but the main appeal is its unusual concept, themed controls, and built-in ducking workflow. It is best treated as a character reverb for distinctive small spaces and playful ambience.
