Specifications

Audio Plug-Ins Guide312
Distortion Tone Section
Controls
The Distortion plug-in’s tone controls let you
shape the timbral quality of the distortion.
Pre-Shape The Pre-Shape control lets you in-
crease or decrease a broad gain boost (or atten-
uation) of treble frequencies in the processed
signal. Pre-Shape is essentially a pre-distortion
tone control that makes the distortion bite at
different frequencies.
Set to 0%, the Pre-Shape control doesn’t affect
the tone at all. Higher settings provide a boost in
the high end of the distorted signal (more treble
distortion), while lower setting suppress the
high end, with some mid-range boost, for a
darker less distorted tone.
High Cut The High Cut control lets you adjust
the frequency for the High Cut filter. To attenu-
ate the high-end of the processed signal, lower
the frequency.
Distortion Clipping Section
The Distortion plug-in’s Clipping controls let
you adjust the DC Bias and the threshold.
DC Bias The DC Bias control lets you change
clipping from being symmetrical to being asym-
metrical, which makes it sound richer, and nas-
tier at high settings. The difference is most no-
ticeable at lower Drive settings.
Threshold The Threshold control lets you adjust
the headroom for the dynamic range of the dis-
torted signal between –20.0 dBFS and 0.0 dBFS.
Rather than using the Drive to adjust the signal
level relative to a fixed clipping level, use the
Headroom control to adjust the clipping level
without changing the signal level.
Distortion Mode Options
Select one of the following options for the
Distortion Mode:
Hard Provides a sharp, immediate distortion of
the signal.
Soft Provides a softer, more gradual distortion
of the signal.
Warp Wraps the waveform back on itself for a
complex distortion tone that changes quickly
from soft to harsh.