You probably haven't played these.

This is Felt Instruments, a plugin label bringing instruments that time forgot to a new generation of musicians and composers.

A 1960s Hohner Guitaret, the rare tine instrument sampled for the Jasno plugin.

A Publison DHM-89 B2 stereo digital pitch shifter and a rack of vintage hardware effects, used in the Helenko celeste sampling sessions.

A vintage viola recorded for Blisko, the close-miked textural strings library.

The faders of an Albiswerk Zürich 502/72 and 502/74 filter bank, sampled for the Smugi filter bank plugin.

The bars and resonator tubes of a 1930s Jenco tabletop celeste, the instrument behind the Helenko celeste plugin.

A rare LIE Belin tube equalizer built for French radio, the unit at the heart of the Kolor Mikro vintage EQ plugin.

the catalogue

A Neumann KM-54 tube microphone copy set close to the hammers of a 1970s Scandinavian upright, recorded for the Lekko felt piano plugin. — A 1970s Scandinavian upright, sampled as quietly as possible

$69

A KINAP passive equalizer built for a Soviet film-sound studio, sampled for the Kolor EQ plugin. — A modular equalizer sampled from rare post-war European hardware

$169

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sampled, not modeled

I record every note, and every curve of every filter, from the instrument itself, one at a time. The photographs on each page show the instrument I recorded.

years of hunting

I sample what I've spent months, sometimes years, tracking down. Never what the market is asking for.

one fair price

There are no sales at Felt. The price on the page is the price, for everyone.

a trial with no time limit

Download any plugin and play it in your own tracks for as long as you need.

“My go-to piano. It sounds exactly as my own upright piano I use in my studio, but I never succeeded in recording it as nice.”

Trentemøller, on Lekko

Tomek operating the Albiswerk 502 filter bank at the Felt Instruments studio

Who makes this

Hi, I'm Tomek. I track down forgotten instruments and gear, sample them by hand, and turn them into plugins. Felt stays a one-person label on purpose. I get to follow one obsession at a time.

how this got started