Baby Audio Comeback Kid
It only takes two simple ingredients to transform dull sounds or vocals: A great idea and a great delay. Baby Audio Comeback Kid brings you the delay – and inspires you to come up with new ideas in a split second.
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Description
The effect lay-out resembles the simplicity of the best hardware delays: There are no sub-menus or hidden features. Instead, you get 14 gratifying ‘shaping knobs’ for instantly sculpting your wet signal. Want a tape delay vibe for your lead synth? A modern slap on your vocals A crunchy lofi echo on your guitars? Not a problem! The on-board parameters can cover an endless variety of styles when mixed and matched.
Baby Audio Comeback Kid gives you pristine sound quality along with the versatility to cover a variety of mix duties, from subtle reflections to hypnotic echoes. It might just become your new go-to delay!
Your Ticket To Delay-Heaven
- Creative and versatile delay plugin that lets you sculpt, shape and transform your wet signal
- Use it to add unique and beautiful delay/echo colors to your mixes – full of vibe and analog flavor
- Designed as an ideal ‘go-to’ delay – with a pristine sound, flexible features and a fast workflow
- Mick Schultz (Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Jeremih)
- Anthony Saffery (Portugal. The Man, Dirty Vegas, Cornershop)
- For optimal results with the presets, gain stage the incoming signal to around -18db
- Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more
Features
- Delay setup – Tempo-Sync Modes: Straight, dotted, triplet (syncs to your DAWs BPM). Free Mode: 0.01 ms – 2500 ms.
- Accuracy – Set your delays with 0.01ms precision when in “Free” mode. Double-click the numerical display and type-in your desired delay time.
- Ping Pong – Classic stereo delay trick
- Ducker – Ducks the delay signal when the dry signal is playing – for a cleaner, more modern sound.
- Lo-Cut + Hi-Cut – A pair of juicy, analog modeled, filters to shape the tonal response of the wet signal.
- Attack + Sustain – Flexible transient designers to shape the envelope of your delay signal.
- Cheap – A custom 11-bit signal path inspired by vintage digital delays.
- Tape – Analog-modeled saturation algorithm, which will give you a classic tape delay sound.
- Swirl – Warm and organic-sounding phasing effect that adds movement to your delays.
- Sauce – Algorithmic reverb for adding diffusion to the wet signal.
- Wider – Changes the timing between the left and right signals to create a wider delay sound.
- Richer – Changes the pitch between the left and right signals to create a lush and wide delay sound.
- Pan – pans the delay
- Mono – Turns the delay into a mono signal.
- Destiny – Subtle randomization algorithm that creates a more human delay feel.
- Off mode: Double click the “Comeback Kid” logo to disable the delay engine. This allows you to use the plugin’s flavoring tools on your dry signal – like a regular multi-FX/color box.
- Display options – Switch between dark and light background colors.
Tech Specs
Mac
MacOS 10.7 and up (including Native M1 Compatibility)
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX
Windows
Windows 7 and up
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX






Don –
Comeback Kid is an easy to use but surprisingly flexible delay that rewards experimentation, giving a great sound.
Christopher –
It has a nice selection of usable presets and has made a big difference to how my delays are sounding.