Variety Of Sound ThrillseekerXTC, Руководство пользователя

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INTRODUCTION
The analog parallel equalizer design goes back to the very beginning of the audio mixing his-
tory (referring devices from e.g. Pultec and Lang) and is famous for the very musical and
interacting frequency response between all bands. Beside the usual suspects (Pultec style
EQs), one can also find similar designs in modern classics like the Chandler Tone Control or
the UBK Clariphonic, just to name a few. While some are rather clean by design, others take
advantage of all the mojo a full analog signal path (including transformer coupled tube stages)
has to offer.
Thrillseeker XTC resembles these parallel analog equalizer designs and includes full control
about sonic color and mojo. In each parallel EQ band, a dedicated tuned
stateful saturator
takes care of all those specific audio transient affairs which are frequency and state dependent
in the analog domain and are summing up to the unique color and width/depth impression of
such devices.
Rather than being a full-blown equalizer, Thrillseeker XTC only offers three parallel bands
with pre-selected frequency ranges for the low, upper-mid and high frequency spectrum,
which can only perform boosts. However, on top of that, all bands can be excited by simply
activating the DRIVE/MOJO section, which applies delicate stateful harmonic distortion to
beautifully enhance the signal .
No matter what selections were actually made on each band - you always can mix this back
safely (phase coherent) to the dry signal with the MIX control in the output section of the
plug-in, not unlike the popular
fade filter function in graphics software.
Lowering the output gain control allows A/B control at equal volume levels and the IN/OUT
metering supports this visually by showing
loudness units . The switch in this section acts as
the global plug-in bypass (On/Off) switch.
The DRIVE/MOJO section contains two controls to manage color and distortion: The DRIVE
control adjusts the internal gain driving the saturation in the three parallel equalizers, while
the MOJO control dials in additional
analog signal path idiosyncrasies and also increases the
appearance of 2nd and 3rd order harmonics. If set to 0 the MOJO circuit is disabled. Switch-
ing the whole section off will give you a super clean parallel EQ!
Unlike each and every other known exciter, Thrillseeker XTC does not perform any phase
tricks, poor static waveshaping and similar. Instead, it is based on a sophisticated non-linear
and frequency dependent algorithm with memory, which is performed on the signals transient
information. It also takes our hearing sensitivity into account, in respect to signal frequency
and volume changes over time.
The magic is, where the transient is.
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