To me it can be a very good aspect, on some electric/screamy guitars it can tame the harshness and bring the mids up so that very useful and sounds more organic than some eq corrections. Usually I use my Softube TLA 100A to do this but now it has some serious competition...tonhelm wrote:It's a result of the whole signal path. This behavior varies between the models. In situations, where you want to use a lot of drive but the high end taming gets too heavy handed, you can use the timbre control to reduce the taming a bit.Endor-8o8 wrote:Nice work Tony ! You seem to have dug a lot concerning compressors topologies/behaviours and...can't imagine the efforts you put into these models. But the result is here, I knew we will be rewarded for our patience.tonhelm wrote:close but different
The idea for the Timbre control actually came from a completely different compressor: the 1176. All its revisions have a different tone: Rev F has a more HiFi tone, while Rev D is more honky/mid forward sounding. I wanted to have a control in MJUC that added some more tone shaping qualities to the device.
Drive is a macro control, which sets the in- and output-transformer load as well as the gain for the in and out tube stages (if applicable in the specific model)
Tony
I noticed that when I crank the Drive knob it tends to tame the high frequencies and thicken the mids, or maybe the mids seem thicker because the highs a tamed...anyway, does it come from the transformer or tube stage or both ?
Tony
