Overloud Gem Comp76 FET Compressor and Limiter Plug-In - Manual (Page 32)

OVERLOUD GEMS OTD-2
OTD-2
OTD-2 : can be seen at same time as a modulation e ff ect and as a traditional delay unit. By using
short delay times, you can achieve the e ff ect of widening the source sound by duplicating it with
some inharmonic delays. This technique also can be used to add weight and body to your
fl anged sound, as fl anger units usually tend to make the processed sound lighter.
When longer delay times are set, making a shrewd usage of programmable tap echoes, you can
improve the depth and width of the input signal, and thanks to the internal feedback path, the
resulting sound will be amazingly textured with musical harmonics. Additionally you can modu-
late the delay lines in order to achieve chorusing and sound widening e
ff ects.
INPUT LEVEL - Controls the level of the INPUT signal.
INPUT MONO/STEREO - Selects how the OTD-2 works when it
gets inserted on a STEREO track. When set to STEREO, the
input pair of signals is kept and processed as is, while when
set to MONO, the input channels are merged together (as it happens on the real hardware) be-
fore being processed. When the
OTD-2 is instantiated on a MONO track, this selector has no alter-
natives to select.
OUTPUT DRY L/R - Controls the separate (left / right) levels of the DRY (unprocessed) signal.
OUTPUT WET L/R - Controls the separate (left / right) levels of
the WET (processed) signal.
OUTPUT LEVEL - the level of the OUTPUT signal.
OUTPUT AGE - The original circuit was based on a so called
“bucket-brigade” device, an electrical component which
created delay in the analog domain. Bucket-brigades add a
lot of color to the sound and are responsible for the distinct
tone of this processor. With the
AGE knob you can control the amount of coloration: the middle
position corresponds to the original device amount. You can even increase more, or just de-
crease it and let the e
ff ect sound closer to a modern digital delay processor, while still keeping
the creative delay tapping and modulation features.
TAP ASSIGN - The TAP ASSIGN section has been greatly improved from the original one. There are
6 taps for each channel of the stereo pair. Every tap switch can be used to route the correspond-
ing tap on the left or right side of the resulting stereo image. And the squared lit buttons close to
them, turn the taps on or o
ff . The original device only works with mono input signals while OTD-2
is able to even process stereo ones. So the stereo version of the TAP ASSIGN section has twice the
original controls.
Tap delay times, in milliseconds, are as follows (ranges depend on the FIXED knob value):
30
The input meter is calibrated such that the 0dB
indicates that the bucket-brigade circuit is
starting to saturate.
If you press alt-cmd (alt-ctrl on Windows)
while you move the INPUT LEVEL or OUTPUT
LEVEL controls, these two knobs will move
coupled so that the resulting signal will stay at
the same level.