Variety Of Sound ThrillseekerXTC, Руководство пользователя

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are summed together afterwards. Each EQ has its very own stateful saturator and they are
activated as soon as the DRIVE/MOJO section is on. If an EQ is bypassed, a dry signal is
summed to the other EQs instead.
Tip: If you would like to take most advantage of the stateful saturation process then always
activate all EQs whether you apply a boost with them or not.
The summed signal can be safely mixed back to the dry signal by adjusting (lowering) the
MIX control in the ouput section. However, the MOJO option produces some additional con-
tent which is not phase coherent, so this is excluded from the MIX control and always applied
as soon as some MOJO is dialed in.
2.3. UTILIZING DRIVE AND MOJO
If the DRIVE/MOJO section is disabled, Thrillseeker is a super clean EQ w/o any ripple and
distortion. Utilizing this section you can obtain different levels of harmonic distortion and
artifacts:
1. Super clean plain parallel EQ – Switch the whole section off.
2. EQ with stateful saturation – Switch this section on but leave MOJO off (knob snaps
into zero position) and use DRIVE to adjust the gain, going from -9 to +9dB.
3. Further phase distortion, signal path idiosyncrasies and increased 2nd and 3rd harmon-
ics – Dial in MOJO to taste.
Personally, I wouldn't use the MOJO option in a mastering situation a lot, but for mixing it is
great to add a little more texture and animation on rather static sources. It may seem subtle but
can really do wonders if applied selectively in the right places.
2.4. INTERNAL GAIN STAGING
The black version is provided to mix at rather conservative target levels around -18dB RMS
opposed to the blue version which is designed to mix at hotter levels around -9dB RMS or to
be used on a master bus where peak performance might be even above 0dBFS upfront the
final limiter.
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