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The whole point of the Clarity Engine was to give engineers
access to the kinds of ultrasmooth, pristinely analog high
frequencies normally found only in very expensive and coveted
equalizers. Units like Massenburg’s 8200, the venerable Sontec,
Cranesong’s amazing IBIS… most of us will never have the
privilege of gracing our racks with any of these stunning
processors, which is a shame, because they offer something up
top that almost everyone wants.
Your days of wanting are over. The controls, in a nutshell:
Presence ------ |---- Bite, cutting thru (~5k)
Sheen --------- |---- Old fashioned treble (~9k)
Out ----------- |---- Engine bypass
Shimmer ------ |---- Electricity (~19k)
Silk ------------ |---- Pure air (~39k)
Presence
Presence is a very special band that almost deserves its own
engine, because it doesn’t possess the harmonically dense
power of the Focus bands, nor is it nearly as subtle or rarified
as the rest of the Clarity bands. But I placed it in the Clarity
