Intermod is a brand new audio plugin from Phantom Sounds, the developer behind Orbit (spatial reverb) and 56K (digital decay).
Intermod gives one thing somewhat completely different; it’s a self-intermodulation impact that multiplies the strongest parts in your sign towards one another.
In doing so, it creates phantom frequencies derived from the unique audio.
As a result of these phantom frequencies are derived from the unique audio, every enter produces a singular character profile.
Intermod gives 4 supply modes: Radio, Tape, Wire, and Digital.
You then have 4 adjustable parameters: Drive, Complexity, Maintain, and Spectrum.
I’ve had somewhat mess around with Intermod, and it’s fairly simple to get into otherworldly territory with the impact.
That is very true with the Radio and Wire modes when you push the Drive and Maintain pretty exhausting.
It’s attention-grabbing; you may take shorter sounds, and Intermod creates a continuing, virtually pulsing, tail. Even if you’re in otherworldly or ethereal territory, a low Complexity setting retains the motion pretty secure, which works nicely for extended sequences.
If you’d like the motion to be somewhat wilder, you may bump up the Complexity.
You even have a Dry/Moist slider to manage the impact quantity.
The plugin incorporates a good frequency show, and simply beneath, you’ll discover HP and LP filter settings, offering one other stage of tone shaping.
One of many issues I like about Intermod is the thoughtfulness of the presets.
Because it’s fairly simple and tempting to create wilder results, you would possibly anticipate that the presets would lean closely in that course.
However I used to be glad to see a pleasant mixture of refined and aggressive results, compiled particularly for varied devices, together with:
- Bass
- Drums
- Guitar
- Piano
- Synth
- Drums
- Vocals
- SFX
- Strings
If we realized something from Orbit, the final plugin we lined from this developer, it’s that Phantom Sounds tries to take a much less typical strategy than anticipated, and that’s factor when we’ve got so many plugins to select from.
Intermod is extra of the identical; it’s not overly difficult and gives one thing somewhat completely different, making it an attention-grabbing software for sound design.
Final Up to date on April 16, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
