CONSOLE CHANNEL

Controls

• CharacterClean / Warm / Punchy / Bright — Clean: no emphasis, symmetric saturation. Warm: the lows saturate first, with even harmonics. Punchy: the deep lows saturate first, with more drive. Bright: the highs saturate first.
• Drive0 to 100% — How hard the channel is driven: up to 12, 15 or 18 dB depending on the character; small signals stay clean.
• Output−12 to +12 dB — Output level after the console stage.

Best uses

• Analog-desk colour on every track of a mix
• Warming up thin digital sources
• Adding weight and punch to drums and bass
• Use with Console Buss on the bus the tracks feed

Properties

Input → first-order pre-emphasis shelf (per character) → soft saturator (Padé tanh, 6 dB of headroom, even harmonics for Warm and Punchy) → the exact inverse shelf (flat response at low level) → 5 Hz DC blocker → Output. Zero latency, stereo channels processed independently.

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 Desk · Warm Tracks · Punchy Drums · Bright Vocals · Hot Channel · Subtle Colour

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