Official effect
Soft clipping followed by quantization for grainy digital edges on top of a familiar overdrive chassis.
The drive core uses the standard single-stage soft clip and pre-drive EQ, then runs the result through `quantize` before the normal post-drive high shelf. Because the quantizer depth is tied to `tone`, the control now affects both the bit reduction density and the final top-end shelf.
Static peaks come from the compiled FAUST preview render. The live scope is drawn from the browser playback output in real time.
How It Works
The drive core uses the standard single-stage soft clip and pre-drive EQ, then runs the result through `quantize` before the normal post-drive high shelf. Because the quantizer depth is tied to `tone`, the control now affects both the bit reduction density and the final top-end shelf.
Signal Path
Preview source: An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it reaches the active drive path.
An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it reaches the active drive path.
Single-stage soft clip followed by quantization for bit-reduced drive texture.
The static waveform and the live player both reflect this compiled signal chain.
These are the currently active controls detected in the FAUST source for this effect.
The generated description is tied to the active helper blocks and routing found in the current DSP.
Controls
Blends the clean stereo preview source with the soft-clipped overdrive path.
Lower values keep more dry articulation; higher values favor the overdrive voice.
Applies final post-effect level trim after the DC blocker.
Balances loudness without changing how the clipping stage behaves.
Raises the level feeding the single tanh saturation stage.
Moves the patch from light breakup toward thicker, more compressed overdrive.
Controls both the quantizer step count and the post-drive high shelf after the bit-reduction stage.
Changes how coarse the digital breakup feels while also shifting the top-end brightness.
Changes the low shelf and 930 Hz emphasis ahead of clipping.
Pushes more body or midrange into saturation, changing how focused the overdrive feels.
Analysis
Reviewed against the current DSP. This file is differentiated by the explicit quantization stage after saturation, not by a completely different underlying EQ chassis.
No current warnings are attached to this effect.
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Each effect page uses the same generated description pipeline and compiled waveform preview assets.