Paradox FX series · Saturation & distortion
Add a little color or make the distortion take over.
Build a fuller, denser sound, or turn up Drive for aggressive distortion. Warmth controls the resonances that can get sharp as you push, while transient shaping, frequency focus and mid/side processing let you decide how much of your original sound comes through.
Drive & Warmth
Drive builds the harmonics, while Warmth suppresses resonances that can become sharp as the distortion increases.
Use a little for a fuller sound or take the drive into heavier territory, then shape the resonances without having to back away from the whole effect.
Choose what gets pushed
In crossover mode, HPF and LPF define the band sent through the harmonic processing. The lows and highs outside that range pass through without the distortion.
Focus the grit in the middle, or open the range when you want the treatment across more of the sound.
Shaper emphasizes or softens the transient after the distortion. Bring back more of the initial hit when saturation smooths it over, or soften it when you want a rounder onset.
Blend the result with the dry sound to keep as much of the original performance as you need.
Inside the advanced panel
Go beyond the amount of drive and shape how the distortion responds, where it lands in the stereo image and which resonances it brings forward.
LF Bump adds frequency-dependent low-end color before the first harmonic stage. M/S Focus lets you concentrate saturation in the center, the sides, or both, so you can thicken the middle while leaving the stereo edges cleaner, or color the sides without pushing the center.
Dyn reduces the effective drive as the input gets louder, then lets it recover when the level falls. Age changes that recovery character, from a slower, more compressed response at low settings to quicker, cleaner saturation as you turn it up.
Warm Freq targets a troublesome resonance and Warm Depth adds more suppression around it. Warm Speed sets how quickly that cut lets go, letting you choose a quick recovery or a smoother response that lingers after the resonance.
Use FLTR to switch between normal high-pass and low-pass filtering and crossover mode. In crossover mode, only the band between HPF and LPF receives the harmonic processing, while the lows and highs outside it pass through untouched.
Blend with Mix, link input and output for level comparisons, and use A/B to keep two settings close by. HQ oversampling and your own presets are available in the top bar.
Hear what it does
Compare the original recordings with subtle and more heavily driven settings.
Hear Paradox | Stereo Distortion
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Build your Paradox
Follow Stereo Distortion with Mod Filter and sweep through the harmonics you’ve added. Send it into PlasmaVerb for a distorted sound with a long, shifting trail behind it.
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