Official effect
Torn, collapsing fuzz that currently uses the same hard-gate core as Gated Fuzz.
The current signal path is the same one used by Gated Fuzz and Sputter Fuzz: high-pass cleanup, a hot biased tanh stage, then a clamp-style gate driven from a smoothed amplitude follower before the final high shelf. Its ripping character comes from that hard cutoff behavior rather than a separately tuned velcro-specific circuit.
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 current signal path is the same one used by Gated Fuzz and Sputter Fuzz: high-pass cleanup, a hot biased tanh stage, then a clamp-style gate driven from a smoothed amplitude follower before the final high shelf. Its ripping character comes from that hard cutoff behavior rather than a separately tuned velcro-specific circuit.
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.
Hard-gated fuzz that clips first, then applies a smoothed amplitude gate before final 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 both the gain feeding the fuzz stage and the multiplier that sharpens the gate response.
Adds more torn-up sustain while also making the gate collapse harder.
Adjusts the post-fuzz high shelf.
Moves the ripping top end from darker and papery to brighter and more aggressive.
Shifts the pre-clip offset and changes the threshold used by the smoothed amplitude gate.
Lower values choke the fuzz earlier; higher values leave more tail before it collapses.
Analysis
Current implementation shares the same hard-gate topology as Gated Fuzz and Sputter 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.