Official effect
Aggressive dual-stage distortion built on the current hard-clip family core.
This preview uses the same active path as Hard-Clip Distortion: stronger low-shelf feeding, restrained 930 Hz emphasis, two tanh clipping stages, and a broad post-drive high shelf. It is already aggressive, but the current code does not yet introduce a separate chainsaw-specific upper-mid or filter structure beyond that shared distortion core.
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
This preview uses the same active path as Hard-Clip Distortion: stronger low-shelf feeding, restrained 930 Hz emphasis, two tanh clipping stages, and a broad post-drive high shelf. It is already aggressive, but the current code does not yet introduce a separate chainsaw-specific upper-mid or filter structure beyond that shared distortion core.
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.
Dual-stage tanh distortion currently sharing the Hard-Clip Distortion core for aggressive saturation.
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 tanh clipping stages, especially the first one.
Adds denser saturation, more sustain, and stronger transient flattening.
Controls the wide post-drive high shelf after the cascaded clipping stages.
Restores bite and attack or keeps the distortion darker and more controlled.
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. The current preview shares the same active dual-stage clipping core as Hard-Clip Distortion and is not yet independently differentiated for chainsaw-specific filtering.
No current warnings are attached to this effect.
More In Drive, Boost & Saturation
Each effect page uses the same generated description pipeline and compiled waveform preview assets.