Official effect
Two-stage clipped drive with a narrow band-pass bottleneck that mimics a constricted, damaged speaker voice.
After the usual pre-drive shaping, this signal path runs through one tanh stage, a narrow band-pass centered by `tone`, and then a second tanh stage before the final high shelf. That mid-focused bottleneck strips away bandwidth between clipping stages, which is what gives the current preview its broken-speaker feel.
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
After the usual pre-drive shaping, this signal path runs through one tanh stage, a narrow band-pass centered by `tone`, and then a second tanh stage before the final high shelf. That mid-focused bottleneck strips away bandwidth between clipping stages, which is what gives the current preview its broken-speaker feel.
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.
Two-stage clipped drive with an inter-stage band-pass choke for a narrowed speaker-like voice.
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 dual-stage clipped distortion path.
Lower settings keep more dry pick detail; higher settings commit to the denser distortion voice.
Trims the final level after DC blocking and before the limiter.
Sets loudness without changing how hard the internal clipping stages are hit.
Raises the level feeding both clipping stages, with the second stage also hit after the band-pass choke.
Adds more grind and compression across both distortion stages.
Moves the center of the inter-stage band-pass while still affecting the post-drive high shelf.
Shifts the broken-speaker bottleneck up or down while also changing the final brightness.
Adjusts the low shelf and restrained 930 Hz push ahead of clipping.
Changes how much weight and upper-mid focus gets driven into the distortion core.
Analysis
Reviewed against the current DSP. This is one of the more genuinely differentiated drive files because it inserts a narrow band-pass between the two clipping stages.
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.