Flame

Flame is a simulation of three different distortion pedals and three tone circuits.

Over the years, I have built many distortion pedals based on known designs. Often I didn’t have the exact components that the pedal required and I just used what I had. I built three different distortion circuits that I intended to use in my real eurorack and I based Flame on those three modules.

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Each of the following controls provides an attenuverter and a CV input to modulate them.

• Fuel: this is the main knob of Flame that controls the level of distortion. At low levels it adds a little bit of bite; at its maximum you get full destruction.
• Tone: controls the balance between the frequencies. It behaves differently depending on the Tone model.
• Blend: it’s a dry/wet control to balance how much of the original and processed signal you want.
• Type:
  • Rodent: provides a hard-clipping style of distortion.
  • Cylinder: a more subtle distortion in a soft-clipping style.
  • Blur: a very aggressive and asymmetrical distortion.
• Tone:
  • Crem: full left reduces the treble and adds a bit of boost to the bass. Full right opens up the treble and boosts the mid range.
  • Diez: full left boosts the bass and cuts the treble. Full right cuts the bass and boosts the treble. Adds a notch around 500 Hz.
  • Puff: Similar in behavior to Diez, but the notch is around 1 kHz.
• Input: left and right inputs to the distortion. If only one is connected, the processed signal is sent to both outputs.
• Output: left and right outputs.

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