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SHINE

EXCITER

Air on top without the harshness

What it does

Air on top without the harshness: an exciter that adds harmonics above FREQ, driven at DRIVE and blended in with MIX. Brightens a dull chip or a muffled take without an EQ boost's hiss.

  • FREQ at 3 kHz brightens; at 8 kHz it only adds air
  • Keep MIX under half; you should miss it when it goes, not hear it when it comes
ON THE TOUCH PAD

As SHINE: X is FREQ, Y is MIX. Touch to engage, lift to let go, HOLD to keep it.

Where it goes

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Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.

The knobs

3 KNOBS · REAL UNITS
KnobRangeStarts atScale
FREQ1000 Hz to 10000 Hz3000 Hzlog
DRIVE1 x to 10 x3 xlinear
MIX0 to 10.3linear

The presets

6 IN THE BANK

Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.

PresetFREQDRIVEMIX
SPARKLE3000 Hz3 x0.3
AIR6000 Hz2 x0.35
SUBTLE2500 Hz2 x0.15
SIZZLE4000 Hz6 x0.45
TOP8000 Hz4 x0.4
HARSH1500 Hz10 x0.6

The console line

Every box is also a line of the console's language, so a pad or a patch can carry its effects in text. The words are the knobs:

fx shine freq=3000 drive=3 mix=0.3

The rest of TONE

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