Touched

Touched is all you need to sculpt your own wall of sound. It's shoegaze-in-a-box.

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Three stages: fuzz, tremolo, and reverb. Each stage has true bypass. Switch the signal order to put reverb before fuzz, which is the key to classic shoegaze tone.

Features

Unique dynamics-controlled tremolo mode simulates the "glide" effect, where the pitch bends in response to how hard you play, made popular by My Bloody Valentine:

• 3 fuzz voicings: Scoop, Full, and Harsh.
• 3 reverb modes: Soft Focus, Reverse, and Shimmer.
• 3 tremolo modes: Free, Sync, and Dynamics.
• Switchable signal order: fuzz before reverb, or reverb before fuzz.

Fuzz

Dual-stage diode clipper with 4x oversampling. Three voicings shape the tone:

• Scoop: Scooped mids, wide low end. The bass-heavy wall-of-sound voicing.
• Full: Gentle mid cut, tighter bass. The balanced default, good for everything.
• Harsh: Aggressive mid scoop with more gain than the other two. Bright, abrasive, textured distortion.

Reverb

Built on a stereo plate reverb. The Amount knob controls the character and density of each mode, and Mix blends wet/dry.

Soft Focus

Dense, dreamy, all-encompassing wash. Inspired by the Yamaha FX500 "Soft Focus" patch. Compression, EQ shaping, cross-channel delays, and a three-voice chorus on the reverb tail.

Reverse

Not a true reversed recording. Multiple delay taps play back with rising gain, so sound appears to rise in volume backwards. Psychedelic, ethereal effect. Ready to be used at 100% wet mix setting.

Shimmer

Octave-up pitch shifter in the reverb feedback path. Each repeat climbs higher, building a stack of harmonics that rings out above the dry signal.

Tremolo

This is pitch-based modulation simulating a guitar's tremolo bar.

In Free and Sync modes, the pitch ebbs and flows in cycles, either at a manual rate or locked to your DAW's tempo (1/8 note up to 4 bars).

The really interesting one is Dynamics mode. The pitch modulations is envelope-controlled, meaning it responds to your strumming. This is the "glide" effect, made famous by My Bloody Valentine. Adjustable depth controls how far it goes. Listen to the audio samples to hear what it sounds like.

Signal order

• Drive First (default): Fuzz Tremolo Reverb. Standard effects chain.
• Reverb First: Reverb Fuzz Tremolo. This is where the shoegaze lives. Classic sound.

Formats

VST3, CLAP, and AudioUnit (macOS). Stereo in/out.

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