PHATurator
PHATurator is a multi-stage saturation and tonal-shaping plugin designed to add weight, presence and musical character while staying light on CPU.
Multiple analogue-inspired stages (TUBE, TAPE, FET, PUNCH, PHAT, WARMTH) allow you to blend to taste, from subtle warmth to absolute madness.
MAIN INTERFACE
Multiple analogue-inspired stages (TUBE, TAPE, FET, PUNCH, PHAT, WARMTH) you can blend to taste, from subtle warmth to absolute madness.
- FET, detector-driven FET dynamics (76 style feel) for punch and control.
- TUBE, classic tube saturation to make everything fuller.
- TAPE, great for vintage glue, tasty saturation and width.
- PUNCH, fast and punchy large format British console saturation: tight low end, snappy transient and an assertive upper mid band.
- PHAT, fuller low-mid punch and pleasing compression-like behaviour. This is a very loudness-friendly kind of saturation.
- WARMTH, thick, transformer rich 70s British class A preamp vibe: bigger lows, creamy low mids and a sweet forward presence.
- MIX (global), lets you do in-plugin parallel processing.
- HPF, Butterworth HPF when in clean mode, PHAT and PHATTER add resonance to it. This HPF is pre-saturation, so it helps to shape the saturation character.
- LPF, Butterworth LPF pre-saturation, so it helps to shape the saturation character.
- DEPTH, subtle or not-so-subtle low end enlarger. It’s a combination of EQ and very kind saturation that enlarges (or thins out) the low end. Very powerful.
- TONE, when CLARITY is ON this is a carefully fine tuned high shelf to brighten up any source without harshness, when CLARITY is OFF this becomes a tilt EQ to make the source brighter or darker.
ADVANCED PANEL
- MODE, toggles three behaviours: CLEAN it does what it says on the can, PHAT subtle transformer like saturation + small resonance on the HPF frequency and PHATTER dual transformer saturation + accentuated resonance on the HPF frequency.
- LIMITER MODE (OFF / SAFE / AGGRO), is a lightweight but mega powerful post-output limiter to avoid final clipping (-0.003 dB final clip). Use SAFE for transparent control, AGGRO for fast peak control.
- CLARITY/TILT, changes the TONE character: when in CLARITY mode the TONE is more shelf-y, when it’s in TILT mode the tone behaves more like a fine tuned tilt, that helps make the source brighter or darker.
- AUTO GAIN, RMS based auto trim that keeps perceived loudness steady after heavy processing, making A/B comparisons fast and reliable.
- MIX (global), lets you do parallel processing in-plugin.
- OUTPUT HPF/LPF (global), is a second set placed on the output of the plugin, right before the limiter in the wet path.