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SATURATION (continued)
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may or may not wish to have as part of your sound).
It’s important to note that the Input and Output level only affects the
echo signal, leaving the dry signal unchanged.
For example, when using the “Studio Tape” echo style, increasing
amounts of saturation will add odd harmonic distortion in the low and
mid-range, and will cause a high frequency compression effect. This
effect is especially nice on vocals, adding a bit of automatic de-essing
on the echo during louder vocal passages. Or, when the style is set to
“Limited”, the saturation control functions more like a limiter threshold,
and will add increasing amounts of a very cool pumping limiter effect.
The Input and Output level controls are used to either boost or attenu-
ate the input or output of EchoBoy. EchoBoy’s Input and Output controls
allow you to vary the tone of the input signal being sent to the echo
circuit. You can keep it nice and clean or make it dirty and messy. These
controls were designed to replicate the way true analog input sections
respond on physical analog hardware (and they will sound very different
depending on the setting of the Echo Style).
The LED-style indicators located beneath the Input and Output knobs
provide a visual display of the input and output signal levels. The yellow
LED indicates that the signal is 6dB below clipping. The red LED indi-
cates maximum signal level, and possible audible clipping (which you
INPUT AND OUTPUT LEVEL
Figure 3:
Output LED indicating maximum signal level
Echo Styles, found in the “Style” menu underneath the Input/Output
controls, make it easy to radically change the echo tone and quality to
suit your project. Within the style menu you’ll find a staggering amount
of different echo sounds, modeled from a vast collection of hardware
units at the Soundtoys lab. From the subtle warmth of high-end studio
tape echo, to the lo-fi warbly sound of classic tape echo boxes (like the
Echoplex and Roland Space Echo), along with classic stomp boxes, rack
units, and other assorted delay/chorus effects, EchoBoy has it all! To
change the Echo Style, simply click on the Style display window.
ECHO STYLES
