Description
A Matter of karacter
The Elysia karacter is a box full of vibrant colors. It covers a complete spectrum including mastering-grade saturation, tube-inspired distortion, and glorious destruction. Gone are the days when only racks full of outboard gear could achieve these elusive and highly desirable styles of tonal coloration.
The entire unit is designed with discrete class-A topology, so even the most lo-fi sounds will benefit from the karacter’s high-end touch. Enhance your tracks or decimate everything – It’s a matter of karacter.
5 reasons why you should use the karacter
even there are many more!
- Build Quality
The karacter, just like all our products, is designed, engineered, and handcrafted in Germany.
- Class-A Topology
Consequently represents the art of discrete signal processing.
- Control Voltage
Modulation and remote control of Drive and Mix with external control voltages.
- Dual Mono / Stereo Link
The karacter gives you ultimate flexibility in terms of configuring its channels.
- Saturation / Distortion Galore
Mastering grade saturation and a Tube-inspired distortion are under the hood of karacter.
Build Quality
The karacter is all about details.
Every single of its many aspects – sound, features, circuitry, components, design, materials, manufacturing – has been thought over and over until there was just nothing left to improve. Basically, every single part of our fine products is custom, and most of these are made according to our own designs and specs.
Only the best components the market has to offer are good enough for the karacter, and it shows. Each of our products is manually built to order and tested by ourselves, here at our headquarters in Germany.
Our product benefits sum up in an audio quality that is beyond all doubt. Even when extreme settings are used, the sound always stays clean and powerful.
Three Modes to Glor
This enormously creative tone-shaping solution offers two separate channels which can be set up for dual mono, linked stereo, or linked and unlinked M/S operation. Integrated mix stages for parallel signal processing and the unique Color Control add to its remarkable flexibility.
Mastering-Grade Saturation
Dual Mono/Stereo Link
karacter gives you ultimate flexibility in terms of configuring its channels:
Dual Mono:
This gives you two fully independent channels of saturation/distortion/destruction – two units in one! This is of course the right mode to process two completely different signals at the same time. Or to send the output of channel 1 into channel 2 for even further mangling… if you dare.
Stereo Link:
In this mode, both channels are linked and controlled by just a single set of controls for comfortably processing stereo sources. The left controllers and switches become the master for both channels. The obvious benefit is that you don’t have to compare and match the settings of your left and right channels all of the time when processing stereo material.
M/S Unlinked:
This gives you the option to process the mid and the side signals completely independent from each other. Then, the left becomes the mid-channel and the right becomes the side channel. You can apply a high amount of saturation to the mid and leave the sides completely untouched, or the other way round, or anything in between… Different settings of the gain controllers can be used to create subtle or significant changes within the stereo spectrum.
M/S Linked:
The linked M/S mode might seem a little odd, as the behavior seems to be exactly the same as in the linked stereo mode. It can still have its benefits, though, as the inevitable divergences between left and right channels which are caused by natural component tolerances will be reduced in this mode because here the side information of both channels is processed in a single audio path.
Control Voltage
Did you know the Drive and Mix parameters of the karacter can be modulated or automated with an external Control Voltage? Just connect your MIDI-to-CV box or your favorite synthesizer to the CV inputs on the back panel and you’re ready to go.
The CV can cover the complete range of the Drive and Mix parameters if the corresponding knobs are set to their fully counter-clockwise position. This cool feature gives you infinite options for making your sound colorations even more individual and vivid.
