Overdrive / booster: CharBooster by AXP

CharBooster è un overdrive / booster (32 – 64 bit) rilasciato da AXP.

Descrizione originale:

CharBooster is a composite overdrive effect tailored specifically to be used as booster in front of any virtual amplifier model.

It essentially consists of a pre-emphasis filter section designed to provide a variation of voicings for your instrument followed by a saturation circuit that excites the signal with harmonics while still being as transparent as possible. The UI is not trying to look like a hardware stomp box but rather has a range of meters and scopes to provide an insight on what is going on with your signal.

The effect’s controls are divided into 3 sections:

1. Character
Amount : sets the amount of the filtering applied.
Character : selects one of the pre-configured filters:

Shrill : boosts the top frequencies enhancing the presence of the signal.
Bright : boosts the high frequencies adding clarity and brightness.
Tight : rolls-off the low end to reduce the muddiness of the high-gain amps.
Flat : bypass of the filtering stage.
Fat : boosts the middle frequencies for the best high-gain tone.
Warm : rolls-off the high frequencies (good for taming single-coil pickups).

2. Saturation
Harmonics : sets the amount of the harmonics introduced by this stage.
Mode : selects the configuration of the stages:

Off : bypass the saturation stage
Tube : pre-amp stage based on a single 12AX7 triode
Tape : simple magnetic tape model
T-n-T : tube preamp followed by the tape model

The tube model used in the saturation stage is similar to the one used in Softamp 3OD, however the modeled circuit is different.?__?? The tape model is a very simplified one. It has only the nonlinear transfer curve and dynamic frequency response modeled. Wow & flutter effects as well as phase smearing were omitted keep the CPU consumption low. It is loosely based on the Ampex ATR-102 tape recorder.

3. Boost
Level : sets the output gain of the booster from -6dB to +24dB.

On the top of the effect’s window there are 5 more buttons:

Enable the effect.
Stereo mode.
16x oversampling.
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