Official effect
Low-gain saturator with added weight and a dark top, currently sharing the Tape Preamp core.
This preview also uses the Tape Preamp signal path: high-pass cleanup, a heavy low shelf, modest 930 Hz shaping, one gentle tanh stage, and a restrained post-drive high shelf. It behaves as a broad thickener today rather than a uniquely transformer-colored saturation model.
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 also uses the Tape Preamp signal path: high-pass cleanup, a heavy low shelf, modest 930 Hz shaping, one gentle tanh stage, and a restrained post-drive high shelf. It behaves as a broad thickener today rather than a uniquely transformer-colored saturation model.
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.
Gentle single-stage tanh saturator currently sharing the Tape Preamp core with strong low-shelf thickening.
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 low-gain saturator path.
Lower values retain more unaffected attack; higher values emphasize the thicker preamp color.
Applies final level trim after the DC blocker and before the limiter.
Matches loudness without changing the amount of saturation.
Raises the input multiplier into a gentle single tanh stage.
Adds harmonic density and soft compression without moving quickly into heavy distortion.
Adjusts a restrained post-drive high shelf.
Lets the saturator stay dark and dense or open slightly for more presence.
Pushes more low shelf and a modest 930 Hz contour before saturation.
Adds weight and low-mid body to the preamp voice.
Analysis
Reviewed against the current DSP. The current preview shares the same active low-gain thickener core as Tape Preamp and is not yet a differentiated transformer-model path.
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.