Official effect
Parallel bright fuzz and saturated low-band support for a thicker, more synth-like composite voice.
There is no separate oscillator here; the synth-like feel comes from splitting the input into a high-passed fuzz branch and a low-passed support branch with its own saturation amount. After those branches sum, `tone` reshapes the result with a 1.2 kHz peak and a high shelf, while `bias` increases the saturation feeding the low-band support layer.
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
There is no separate oscillator here; the synth-like feel comes from splitting the input into a high-passed fuzz branch and a low-passed support branch with its own saturation amount. After those branches sum, `tone` reshapes the result with a 1.2 kHz peak and a high shelf, while `bias` increases the saturation feeding the low-band support layer.
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 hits the fuzz core.
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 hits the fuzz core.
Parallel bright fuzz branch and low-band saturation branch with mid-peak and high-shelf tone shaping after the sum.
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 untouched stereo preview source with the fuzzed path after the effect core.
Lower settings preserve more pick attack and clean body; higher settings push the fuzz treatment to the front.
Applies final post-effect level trim after DC blocking and before the output limiter.
Matches loudness without changing the actual fuzz structure.
Raises the gain feeding the bright high-passed fuzz branch.
Adds more edge, sustain, and upper-band saturation.
Adjusts the 1.2 kHz peak EQ and the post-fuzz high shelf after the two branches recombine.
Moves the combined voice from thicker and darker toward brighter, more nasal projection.
Raises the saturation amount on the low-passed support branch.
Adds more low-band thickness and compressed synth-like body under the main fuzz.
Analysis
Current implementation gets its synth-like behavior from parallel filtering and saturation, not from oscillator generation.
No current warnings are attached to this effect.
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