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Image unavailableSomerville Sounds - Rubber Bridge Plucks
Free
Meyer decided to transform a parlor acoustic guitar. He replaced the bridge with rubber, strung it with flat wound strings, and added the cheapest electronics from Amazon. And as if the guitar wasn’t dead enough, he wedged an eraser under the strings
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What it does.
Sampled parlor guitar with rubber bridge, flatwound strings and extra damping. Pickup recordings use saturation/doubling; onboard low-pass and drive range from muted plucks to heavier textures.
Before you install.
- Availability
- Free
- Operating systems
- Windows, macOS
- Plugin formats
- VST3, AU, AAX
- Review status
- Developer details reviewed; not personally tested
- Last information review
- 2026-10-06
Download & installation notes
Pay what you want; $0 explicitly accepted. Dedicated plugin, no Kontakt required. Windows7+, macOS11+,8GB RAM,64-bit.
See it in action.
Official developer demo / walkthrough — Somerville Sounds. Rubber Bridge Plucks IN ACTION w/Hunter Rogerson
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