Official effect
Soft-clipped drive that folds the waveform after saturation for brighter, more synthetic overtones.
This patch uses the familiar high-pass and pre-EQ staging, then feeds a gentle tanh stage into `ef.wavefold` before the post-drive high shelf. The fold amount scales with `drive`, so higher settings add sharper upper harmonics than the plain soft-clip overdrives.
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 patch uses the familiar high-pass and pre-EQ staging, then feeds a gentle tanh stage into `ef.wavefold` before the post-drive high shelf. The fold amount scales with `drive`, so higher settings add sharper upper harmonics than the plain soft-clip overdrives.
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 soft clip feeding a wavefolder for brighter folded overtones.
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 file is genuinely differentiated from the surrounding overdrives because it adds an explicit wavefolding stage after saturation.
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.