Elysia Karacter 500 Qube Effects 500 Series Module

karacter gives some color and excitement to your mixes in a controlled way! Choose between different examples including applications like recording, mixing or mastering, use good headphones or speakers. Just press Play and A/B between the bypassed and active sounds!

Mastering Grade Saturation
karacter can add unobtrusive coloration and thickness to your music by applying subtle (or less subtle) amounts of symmetrical clipping. This mode has a soft characteristic curve and focuses on the uneven harmonics (h3, h5, …).

Remember you can always use the mix controller to blend any desired amount of saturation with your original dry path for even further signal integrity.

Tube Inspired Distortion
Now, karacter becomes a different animal… Its clipping changes from a symmetrical to an asymmetrical characteristic, which pleasingly reminds of the style a driven tube amp would sound like.

More even harmonics (h2, h4, …) come into play, and what has been saturation before is now turned into truly musical distortion. Be sure to make extensive use of the Color controller in this mode!

Color Filter
The Color Filter is a unique, complex filter network controlled by just one single knob. This is something really different from the simple top end roll-off filters found on many distortion devices, as it is much more flexible and integrated deeply into the saturation circuits of the karacter.

So, this filter does not change the frequency response after it has been formed, but instead it is an essential part of THD generation itself. It gives you a wide range of coloring options and several amazing sweet spots ranging from dubby growl to steely punch.

Glorious Destruction
Turbo Boost puts the FET Shred mode on steroids. It shifts the operating point of the distortion circuitry, resulting in a signal structure which is even more asymmetrical than before.

This will become most obvious at higher settings of the Drive controller, sounding great for industrial styles, mangling samples, brutal guitar sounds and much more.

Integrated M/S Matrix
M/S technology is commonly known as a variant of stereo microphoning. This technique uses a microphone with cardioid pattern for the middle signal (M) and another one with bi-directional pattern with an offset of 90° for the side signal (S). The integration of an M/S encoder and decoder into a saturator generates new potentials that classic stereo processors can hardly offer. One of the main advantages is the possibility to process the middle and side signals separately. This way you can make the center sound fatter without corrupting the original stereo spectrum, for example. Of course it is also possible to apply heavy distortion to the side signals without affecting the mid at all, and anything in between…

• Frequency response:
100% Wet: <10 Hz – 400 kHz (-3,0 dB)
100% Dry: <10 Hz – 27 kHz (-3,0 dB)

• THD+N 100% Dry:
@ 0 dBu: 0,013 %
@ +10 dBu: 0,024 %

• THD+N 100% Wet (in Saturation Mode):
@ 0 dBu Min Drive: 0,47 %
@ +10 dbU Max Drive: 35,1 %

• Noise floor, 20 Hz – 22 kHz (A-weighted):
100% Dry: -91 dBu
100% Wet: -81 dBu

• Dynamic range, 20 Hz – 22 kHz: 112 dB

• Maximum input level: +21 dBu

• Maximum output level: +21 dBu

• Impedance:
Input: 10 kOhm
Output: 68 Ohm

• Dimensions (W x H x D, incl. Knobs):
1 RU Rack: 19” x 1,75“ x 9,4“ / 483 mm x 44,45 mm x 238 mm
elysia qube: 4,09” x 5,39“ x 8,4“ / 104 mm x 137 mm x 212 mm

• Weight:
1 RU Rack: 3,88 lbs / 1,76 kg
elysia qube: 3,17 lbs / 1,46 kg

• Power consumption:
1 RU Rack: 12 Watts
elysia qube: 10 Watts
500 Series Module: 210 mA