CONSOLE BUSS

Controls

• CharacterClean / Warm / Punchy / Bright — Clean: no emphasis, symmetric saturation. Warm: the lows saturate first, with even harmonics. Punchy: the deep lows saturate first. Bright: the highs saturate first.
• Drive0 to 100% — How hard the bus is driven (up to 9 or 12 dB depending on the character), and how much the sides leak into each other (up to -30 dB).
• Output−12 to +12 dB — Output level after the console stage.

Best uses

• Analog summing colour on the mix bus
• Pairing with Console Channel on the tracks
• Gentle density on drum and music busses
• A touch of desk crosstalk for a less clinical stereo image

Properties

Input → first-order pre-emphasis shelf (per character) → soft saturator (Padé tanh, 8 dB of headroom) → the exact inverse shelf → crosstalk (the other side high-passed at 1 kHz, up to -30 dB with Drive) → 5 Hz DC blocker → Output. Zero latency.

Formats

• JSFXJSFX for REAPER, with REAPER's own sliders
• GFXJSFX GFX for REAPER, with its own interface
• VST3VST3 for any DAW
• CLAPCLAP for any DAW
• LV2LV2 for Linux DAWs such as Ardour, Carla and Qtractor

Factory presets

Clean Sum · Warm Mix Bus · Punchy Drum Bus · Bright Master · Driven Bus · Subtle Glue

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