and vocals. Comparable to tape
saturation effects, everything can gain presence to cut through a mix.The Charisma is equipped with XLR and TRS connectors for balanced operation.
Concept
CHARISMA is an tube processor designed to improve the
power, punch, dynamics as well as the subjective loudness of the signal
being processed. CHARISMA also optimizes the headroom exploitation of
digital recording systems by helping to prevent overload while
recording. Subjectively, CHARISMA introduces tonal warmth and a smooth
bottom end into digital recording. CHARISMA is a joint development with
Manfred Reckmeyer, whose exceptional knowledge of tube technology
resulted in some amazing custom designs for tube guitar preamps.
Who
could better describe the concept of CHARISMA than the developer
himself? "Since digital recording systems have been around, I have
heard from many recording engineers that they miss the punch of
analogue tape machines, so they decide to still record certain
instruments on analogue."
What is described here is familiar to many of us.
CHARISMA represents a solution that exceeds by far the mere simulation
of tape saturation. CHARISMA's tube saturation characteristic can
actually be manipulated. The concept of operation is kept simple: Each
CHARISMA channel has three potentiometers with which you can drive the
tubes (Drive), change the tube saturation characteristic (Charisma) and
set the output level (Output).
Drive
The
Drive control sets the drive level to the tubes. You have control over
the tube's onset of saturation to find the optimum point of processing.
The higher the Drive, the more tube harmonics are being generated. At
the same time, limiting gets stronger, increasing the density of the
tube distortion.
Applications
The CHARISMA can be used
everywhere to process audio signals with excellent tube sound. It is
ideally suited to process single tracks. In the analog domain it is
inserted into the mixer's channels inserts or directly between the
source and the desk. The most flexible way to use CHARISMA in the
studio is to wire it into the patchbay. Processing subgroups is another
interesting application.
