Official effect
Soft-clipped overdrive with a pronounced 930 Hz mid push and reduced low-shelf lift.
Compared with the other soft-clip overdrives, this one backs the pre-drive low shelf down and pushes the 930 Hz peak much harder before the same single tanh stage. That shifts more energy into the midrange, so `contour` acts more like a real hump control while `tone` still manages the post-drive high shelf after saturation.
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
Compared with the other soft-clip overdrives, this one backs the pre-drive low shelf down and pushes the 930 Hz peak much harder before the same single tanh stage. That shifts more energy into the midrange, so `contour` acts more like a real hump control while `tone` still manages the post-drive high shelf after saturation.
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 tanh overdrive with restrained lows and a deliberately exaggerated 930 Hz mid emphasis.
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 the post-drive high shelf after saturation.
Brightens the clipped signal for more edge or smooths it for a darker voice.
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 is one of the clearer genuinely differentiated single-stage overdrives because the pre-drive mid emphasis is much stronger than the neighboring files.
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.