Presets

Each Trash preset is like a new stomp box or effects pedal. Looking for some new inspiration, a new sound, or a familar sound? Grab one of the hundreds of presets below.

To use the presets, unzip the files to your Trash preset folder which is by default:
PC: "C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\My Documents\iZotope Trash Presets"
Mac: "/Applications/iZotope/Trash/Presets"

Extra iZotope Presets
Waste management services at iZotope have stirred up a delightfully dirty brew for your consumption. Enjoy at your own risk!
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Huston Singletary's Presets
Producer, programmer and engineer, Huston Singletary gave us three of his most-used Trash presets. While you're there, check out his interview.
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Josh Decker's Trash Presets
49 Trash presets guaranteed to spice up your life, or at least your sound. Current favorites include the "broken" presets and the JD Tremolo. Use them on guitars, keys, your cat, or whatever you see fit. On second thought, leave the cat alone.
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User Presets

Eric Myers - "Taking out the Trash"
Here are a few guitar presets sent in by Trash user Eric Myers, and an example song that uses them. The interesting thing about the song is that the only effect used was Trash. All the amp modeling, delays - even the radio static effect - it's all Trash and nothing but Trash. The guitars were just plugged straight into the PC.

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Windows Media format 1.3 MB
Don't let the fake beginning fool you ;-)

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More Karvonen - "Wellamo"
Checking in from Finland, More Karvonen sends us an original song with some Trash presets. Guitars were played through a preamp direct to PC. Drums were originally Soundfont samples of an acoustic drum set. Bass was originally Soundfont sample of a basic rock-style electric bass. The song was composed in Sonar 1.3.1 (24bit/44,1kHz) and mastered with Ozone.

Play Song
MP3 format 4.5 MB

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(drum presets were the iZotope "Drums Three Band Tube Drive" and "Drums Kind of Close" presets included with the Drum Guide)

D.Wood
Five fun ones from D.Wood. We thought the "semi 3" preset in particular was strangely wonderful on guitar and synth leads.
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Blurk
"Adds movement to percussive mids (snares, claps)" says Blurk.
Single XML preset - right click, "Save Target As"

Rabid
Rabid writes: "...designed for input that already contains echo. It also works well on some arp patterns. With a smooth lead such as the oleo patch in zt3a+, the echo seems to have a different tone than the lead. The patch can give a metallic sound along with a bit of distortion. This metallic overtone is more prevalent in the echo of the input."
Single XML preset - right click, "Save Target As"

RAR
RAR reports "does something horrible to a plucked string"
Single XML preset - right click, "Save Target As"

Lo-Fi Massahkah
A very nasty collection of 5 presets from Lo-Fi Massahkah
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Gill
Gill checks in a British tweed amp preset for guitar, and one for the bass players too
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Corbett
An excellent collection of 10 presets, mainly for guitar. Ranging from realistic to disturbing.
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Metal Svinet
A couple Trash presets for piano. We love it. And a drum one just to complete the trio.
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MD
Excellent. Seven more Trash piano presets. With names like "Piano to Guitar" and "Apocalypse in a Can" you've got to check them out
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Ziro
"Who Killed Kenny's 303?" has got to be our favorite Trash preset name so far. Thanks Ziro for a great collection of five presets.
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JG
JG send over 14 presets that sound great on a Fender Strat. But then again, there's no law against sending anything else through them. Good stuff.
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SMR Blues Master
A nice blues guitar preset from the one we call SMR Blues Master.
Single XML preset - right click, "Save Target As"

WL
Thirteen drum and guitar presets that show a nice range of sounds you get can get from Trash.
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DrApostropheX
The doctor digs deep into Trash and pulls out a half dozen presets. There's a Fender Rhodes one in there that you should definitely check out.
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Northern Electrix
Four great presets from Northern Electrix, from Angel Asylum to Trashcan Dreams...
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RLabz
If you're searching for something a little different, check out these seven from RLabz. From "Garbage Juice Bass" to "Secondhand clothing" there's something for everyone.
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ManyTone
Finally, some Trash vocal presets (8 of them). Love to see those. But even better are the 18 guitar presets. ManyTone explains "...I also use alot of Synthesized Guitars. Guitar sounds made from various synthesizers. Most synthesizers though, still sound like a synthesizer when you simulate a guitar with them. My goal with these guitar presets for Trash, was to make Amps and Distortions that sound good on Synthetic Guitars..." Nice job. They really do work.
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Steve
Three nice ones from Steve. Well, nice if you consider something like "Twisted Harmony" to be nice. Which we do.
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THIE1210
THIE1210 checks in with nine bass, guitar and drum presets. Bread and butter of rock and roll.
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GZ
A couple great 909-kick presets plus one for trance pads and one for strange vocals. What more could you need?
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Rune
Sometimes you just need a clean 70s Gibson preset. If that time is now, get this one. Thanks Rune!
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Elemental
Wow. 24 really creative ways to use Trash. Distortions, filters, compressors all working in sweet harmonies
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Bloodhound
A couple Trash presets for acoustics, a couple electric ones, and one for snares just to round out the collection.
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Funky Lime
A nice one from Funky Lime designed to give acoustic guitar strumming a brighter, more "live" feeling.
Single XML preset - right click, "Save Target As"

DB
DB sends in ten for Trash. He explains that "2 are pretty sane and the rest are kind of out there". Yup, that's what we thought, too.
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Greg
Eight from Greg, ranging from the normal "OK Guitar" to the lovable "Sewer Shark".
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RJF
Five nice guitar presets. Fuzzy, clean, eerie. Your choice.
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Got some presets you want to share with others? We'd love to put them up here. Email them to izotope@izotope.com.

Trash Recipes

The presets below are from our Trash Cookbooks, which you can learn about here

Guitar Presets
Download presets from Trash Recipes for Guitar (86 guitar presets)
281 KB, zip file

Drums Guide Presets
Download presets from Trash Recipes for Drums (61 drum presets)
209 KB, zip file

Bass Guide Presets
Download presets from Trash Recipes for Bass (71 bass presets)
224 KB, zip file

Presets Included with Trash
(these come with the Trash installer, but in case you deleted some by mistake)

Download presets included with Trash (65 presets)
195 KB, zip file

Amplifiers, effects and other audio products modeled, described or compared in this document are mentioned for the sole purpose of identifying a product that was studied by iZotope and does not imply any cooperation or endorsement by the original manufacturer.