Traditionally, a "white-label" product is one produced by one company that other companies rebrand to make it appear as if they made it. Which makes the Rough Diamond whiteLABEL series plugins seem like they've been saddled with a bit of a misnomer. When you make plugins as cool / unique as these, why would you want anybody else's name on them but your own. Rough Diamond cohorts Amie Slavin and Daz Disley must have some sort of inferiority complex. . .but enough of my armchair analysis, dig these superior VST plugins:

disPRESSA: (pictured) a "distortion powered compressor" meaning that, instead of featuring threshold, ratio and knee controls, the input channel is overdriven and then its level is used to set the level of the clean output channel. Controls include Drive, Contour, Make-up, Attack, Release, Sidechain Filter, Distortion model (mode switch of sorts).

comPANION: a four-stage graphic compander with Stereo, Dual Mono & Mid/Side operation modes. It features four ins and two outs, eight sidechain sources, dual envelopes, and a "NY Mix" control. Other controls include Input and Output Gain, Attack and Release.

simpleTON: dual filter and distortion plugin; simple operation, tons of gain. . . "why isn;'t it already in my DAW?" asks whiteLABEL. If it was, it truly would be white label! Two ins, and two outs. Controls include high- and low-pass frequency and gain controls, switchable 12 or 24 dB filter cutoff, two filter modes, distortion Drive and Contour, and Output mix.

stwETCH MK I: a "playable granular time-stretching and buffer repeater" that's capable of %500 time-stretches, using granules from 10 to 500ms. two pitch controls and MIDI CC support are what make this a "playable" effect.

monoLOW: low band conformance. . . a vaguely fascist-sounding effect. It simply provides threshold adjustable, low-end mono summing, perfect for retaining bass focus in otherwise spatially wide mixes.

The Rough Diamond whiteLABEL plugs are VST, so Mac users are outta luck, but for PC-users, each of these effects can be demo'd free of charge with only minor functional limitations in most cases.