That's What She Said — Four Iconic Pedals, One Plugin

Your entire pedalboard, circuit-modeled and ready to play.

We're excited to announce the release of That's What She Said — the debut plugin from MrH Pedals. It's a complete signal chain built from the ground up: four circuit-modeled pedals arranged on a single virtual pedalboard, designed to take you from pristine compression through transparent overdrive, lush chorus, and deep ambient reverb — without leaving your DAW.

No menus. No presets to scroll through. Just seven knobs and the sound.

What's Inside

That's What She Said chains four effects together in a carefully voiced signal path. Each one is modeled from the original circuit schematics, not sampled or impulse-captured. The math behind every component — every resistor, capacitor, and diode — drives the sound in real time.

Compressor → Overdrive → Chorus → Reverb

The compressor opens the chain with studio-grade optical compression modeled on one of the best boutique optical compressors ever made. A single SQUEEZE knob drives the compression ratio, auto-adjusts the tilt EQ, and handles makeup gain internally. The vactrol model underneath responds to your playing dynamics with programme-dependent release times ranging from 40 milliseconds on transients to 3 seconds on sustained notes. It breathes with you.

The overdrive follows with the kind of transparent, harmonically rich drive that made a certain gold pedal legendary. The PUSH knob controls both the gain stage and the clean/dirty blend simultaneously — exactly how the original circuit works. At low settings, your clean tone thickens with just a touch of warmth from the germanium diode clipping. Crank it and the drive takes over, but the clean signal never fully disappears. Even at full drive, your pick attack and dynamics survive. We run this stage at 4x oversampling with ADAA antialiasing to keep the harmonics clean.

The chorus adds lush analogue modulation modeled on the most revered analogue chorus pedal of all time. Three knobs — PULSE (rate), DEPTH, and GLAZE (mix) — give you everything from subtle thickening to seasick warble. The stereo image is created by running the left and right channels through 180-degree inverted LFOs, so the chorus swirls around you rather than pulsing in mono. The bucket-brigade delay model uses Hermite cubic interpolation through dual low-pass filters for that authentic dark, warm vintage character.

The reverb closes the chain with a lush ambient reverb built on a 4-channel feedback delay network with a Hadamard mixing matrix. GIRTH controls the room size, while MOISTURE simultaneously drives both the wet/dry mix and the echo density at a slightly lower ratio — so turning it up doesn't just add more reverb, it makes the reverb itself more complex. Allpass diffusers smooth the reflections into a dense, natural wash.

The Design Philosophy

We wanted a plugin that works the way a real pedalboard works. You don't reach for a mouse and click through parameter lists — you reach for a knob and turn it until it sounds right.

Every knob in That's What She Said is designed to have a single, musical sweet spot at every position. There are no bypass switches because you don't need them: each effect is voiced so that turning its knob to zero takes it completely out of the signal path. SQUEEZE at zero means no compression. PUSH at zero means clean signal. MOISTURE at zero means dry output.

Seven knobs. That's it. The complexity is in the circuit modeling, not the interface.

Under the Hood

For the technically curious: the entire plugin is built in JUCE with C++ DSP running at your DAW's native sample rate (with 4x oversampling on the overdrive's clipping stage). Each effect is a separate DSP class with its own prepare/process pipeline, and the signal flows through them in series exactly as it would on a physical pedalboard.

The GUI uses a custom pedalboard background with image-based knob graphics — what you see is what a real version of this board would look like.

Availability

That's What She Said is available now as a VST3 plugin for Windows. Download it from our website, enter your license key, and you're playing in under a minute.

We're MrH Pedals, and this is just the beginning. More plugins are on the way.

That's What She Said. You know you want to say it.