User Manual

Riverside - Multistage Drive
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Multistage Drive Topology
Riverside achieves its sound by passing the signal through a cascade of individual gain stages. Dynamic
complexity and additional harmonics are generated at each stage as the signal travels from one stage to the
next.
STAGE ONE: Class A Analog JFET Input Gain Stage
Touch response and dynamic interaction with your guitar are
optimized with the class A JFET input gain stage. This analog
gain stage is digitally controlled to maximize headroom and noise
performance while adding as much as 20dB of analog gain.
STAGE TWO, THREE AND FOUR: Tube-Inspired DSP Gain Stages
Our analysis of tube gain circuits has resulted in a wide-band series
of cascading gain stages that are detailed, rich and full of complex
harmonics. At each stage, more harmonics are generated and the
signal dynamically evolves as the inter-stage circuitry optimally
conditions the response for the following stage.
VARIABLE CIRCUIT TUNING
Riverside’s continuously variable circuit tuning dynamically tweaks
multiple parameters as you adjust the Drive, optimizing the signal
path to sit in the ‘sweet spot’ at any gain setting. This results in a
super-versatile drive pedal that is equally comfortable providing
sparking clean and mildly-overdriven tones, to high-gain lead and
heavily saturated distortion.