Elysia Karacter Qube 500 Series Saturator with Desktop Chassis

Elysia Karacter Qube 500 Series Saturator with Desktop Chassis

A delicious sound-shaper and saturation qube which includes our beloved karacter 500 – a nice audio processor that gives you a wide variety of distortion and shaping capabilities. Not only Salt and Pepper. From great filter to tube-inspired distortion and mastering-grade saturation. Now you can have the karacter in a lightweight format.

The karacter 500 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.

Features

Mastering Grade Saturation

karacter can add unobtrusive coloration and thickness to your music by applying subtle (or less subtle) amounts of symmetrical clipping. This mode has a soft characteristic curve and focuses on the uneven harmonics (h3, h5, …). Remember you can always use the mix controller to blend any desired amount of saturation with your original dry path for even further signal integrity.

Tube Inspired Distortion

Now, karacter becomes a different animal… Its clipping changes from a symmetrical to an asymmetrical characteristic, which pleasingly reminds of the style a driven tube amp would sound like. More even harmonics (h2, h4, …) come into play, and what has been saturation before is now turned into truly musical distortion. Be sure to make extensive use of the Color controller in this mode!

Color Filter

The Color Filter is a unique, complex filter network controlled by just one single knob. This is something really different from the simple top end roll-off filters found on many distortion devices, as it is much more flexible and integrated deeply into the saturation circuits of the karacter.

So, this filter does not change the frequency response after it has been formed, but instead it is an essential part of THD generation itself. It gives you a wide range of coloring options and several amazing sweet spots ranging from dubby growl to steely punch.

Glorious Destruction

Turbo Boost puts the FET Shred mode on steroids.

It shifts the operating point of the distortion circuitry, resulting in a signal structure which is even more asymmetrical than before.

This will become most obvious at higher settings of the Drive controller, sounding great for industrial styles, mangling samples, brutal guitar sounds and much more.

Integrated M/S Matrix

M/S technology is commonly known as a variant of stereo microphoning. This technique uses a microphone with cardioid pattern for the middle signal (M) and another one with bi-directional pattern with an offset of 90° for the side signal (S). The integration of an M/S encoder and decoder into a saturator generates new potentials that classic stereo processors can hardly offer. One of the main advantages is the possibility to process the middle and side signals separately. This way you can make the center sound fatter without corrupting the original stereo spectrum, for example. Of course it is also possible to apply heavy distortion to the side signals without affecting the mid at all, and anything in between.

Dual Mono or Stereo Link

karacter gives you ultimate flexibility!

Dual Mono:

This gives you two fully independent channels of saturation/distortion/destruction – two units in one!

Stereo Link:

Both channels are linked and controlled by just a single set of controls for comfortably processing stereo sources.

M/S Mode:

This gives you the option to process the mid and the side signals completely independent from each other.

 

Brand	Elysia
Condition	New

Frequency Response:

• 100% Wet: <10 Hz - 400 kHz (-3,0 dB)
• 100% Dry: <10 Hz - 27 kHz (-3,0 dB)

THD+N 100% Dry:

• @ 0 dBu: 0.013 %
• @ +10 dBu: 0.024 %

THD+N 100% Wet (in Saturation Mode):

• @ 0 dBu Min Drive: 0.47 %
• @ +10 dBu Max Drive: 35.1 %

Noise Floor, 20 Hz - 22 kHz (A-weighted):

• 100% Dry: -91 dBu
• 100% Wet: -81 dBu

Dynamic Range, 20 Hz - 22 kHz:

• 112 dB

Level:

• Input: +21 dBu
• Output: +21 dBu

Impedance:

• Input: 10 kOhm
• Output: 68 Ohm

Dimensions (W x H x D, incl. Knobs):

• Elysia Qube: 4.1" x 5.39" x 8.4" (104 mm x 137 mm x 212 mm)

Weight:

• Elysia Qube: 3.17 lbs / 1.46 kg

Power Consumption:

• Elysia Qube: 10 Watts