Distortion - E-Mu 1212M Owner's Manual

Parameter Description
Attack Time Controls how quickly the gain is turned down after the signal
exceeds the threshold. Range .1ms to 500ms
Release Time Controls how fast the gain is returned to its normal setting after the
signal has fallen below the threshold.
Range: 50ms to 3000ms
Pre-Delay Allows the use of slower attack times without missing signal peaks.
Range: 0ms to 3 ms
Input Meter
Gain Reduction Meter

Distortion

Most audio processors aim to provide low distortion, but not this one! The sole
purpose of this effect is to add distortion, and lots of it. This effect provides "fuzz box"
style, clipping distortion which is particularly effective on guitar, bass, organs, electric
pianos or whatever.
The input signal first passes through a lowpass filter. The Lowpass Filter Cutoff
Frequency allows you to control the number of new harmonics that will be generated
by the distortion element. The distortion element has an Edge control which controls
"how much" distortion will be added. A bandpass filter follows the distortion
generator. The EQ Center control lets you select a particular band of frequencies to be
output. The EQ Bandwidth controls the width of the center frequency band. Finally, a
gain control allows you to make up for any gain loss through the effect.
Use the Wet/Dry mix control in conjunction with the Edge control to reduce the
amount of distortion, or go wild and turn everything to 11!
Lowpass
Filter
In
LP Filter
Cutoff
Parameter
Pre EQ LP Cutoff
Edge
Gain
Post EQ Center Freq.
Post EQ Bandwidth
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Allows you to monitor the strength of the input signal.
Shows the amount of gain reduction being applied.
Distortion
EQ BW
Edge
Description
Controls the amount of high frequency audio admitted to
the distortion. Range: 80Hz to 24kHz
Sets the amount of distortion and new harmonics
generated. Range: 0-100
Sets the output volume of the effect. Range: -60dB to 0dB
Sets the frequency of the output bandpass filter.
Range: 80Hz to 24kHz
Sets the width of the output bandpass filter.
Range: 80Hz to 24kHz
Bandpass
Filter
Gain
EQ Center
Core Effects Descriptions
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