Official effect
Vintage-leaning biased fuzz that currently uses the same mid-shaped high-gain core as the other vintage-named fuzz variants.
The active path is the same one currently used by Germanium Fuzz, Silicon Fuzz, Big-Box Fuzz, and Pitch Fuzz: high-pass cleanup into one biased tanh stage, followed by a broad 980 Hz contour and a post-fuzz high shelf. It already behaves like a driven vintage-style fuzz voice, but it is not yet a differentiated multi-stage Tone-Bender-specific topology.
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 active path is the same one currently used by Germanium Fuzz, Silicon Fuzz, Big-Box Fuzz, and Pitch Fuzz: high-pass cleanup into one biased tanh stage, followed by a broad 980 Hz contour and a post-fuzz high shelf. It already behaves like a driven vintage-style fuzz voice, but it is not yet a differentiated multi-stage Tone-Bender-specific topology.
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.
Single-stage biased fuzz with pre-drive high-pass cleanup, 980 Hz mid contouring, and post-fuzz high-shelf tone shaping.
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 input multiplier feeding the single fuzz stage.
Adds more sustain and turns the voice from thick fuzz into denser saturation.
Adjusts both the 980 Hz peak EQ and the post-fuzz high shelf.
Changes how much mid focus and upper bite survive after clipping.
Offsets the waveform before the tanh stage.
Alters clipping symmetry and the roughness of the fuzz breakup.
Analysis
Current implementation shares the same biased vintage-fuzz topology as Germanium Fuzz, Silicon Fuzz, Big-Box Fuzz, and Pitch Fuzz.
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.