It seems when I use either of those two Drive settings with just a saw wave and no filtering, the volume drops to nothing when I crank up the drive amount to 100%.
The Light, Clip and Tube settings work fine, but I noticed the Fuzz (when also cranked up) has a large drop in volume, but not as much as the Medium and Hard settings.
BioTek 2 - Medium and Hard Drive settings
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- KVRAF
- 9921 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
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- KVRAF
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- 9921 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
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- KVRAF
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oops double post..
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Wolfram Franke Wolfram Franke https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222340
- KVRist
- 79 posts since 25 Dec, 2009 from Germany
Hi Examigan,
sorry, can't replicate the behaviour here. The volume might change differently depending on the drive type, yes, but going down to silence shouldn't happen. Would be great if you would send me an Instrument file which shows this behaviour, so that I can have a look into it.
Why does the volume change in general? This highly depends on the level of the input signal and the drive type. Basically, an overdrive boosts the incoming signal and clips or saturates it at a certain level, sometimes hard, sometimes via a saturation curve. So, when you have a very loud input signal, it might become lower while a low input signal might become louder. That's why the Distortion effect has an additional Post Gain parameter (the Drive stage between the filter stages doesn't need that one since there's always the Volume parameter to lower the sound level).
Best wishes,
Wolfram
sorry, can't replicate the behaviour here. The volume might change differently depending on the drive type, yes, but going down to silence shouldn't happen. Would be great if you would send me an Instrument file which shows this behaviour, so that I can have a look into it.
Why does the volume change in general? This highly depends on the level of the input signal and the drive type. Basically, an overdrive boosts the incoming signal and clips or saturates it at a certain level, sometimes hard, sometimes via a saturation curve. So, when you have a very loud input signal, it might become lower while a low input signal might become louder. That's why the Distortion effect has an additional Post Gain parameter (the Drive stage between the filter stages doesn't need that one since there's always the Volume parameter to lower the sound level).
Best wishes,
Wolfram