{"title":"4U-S [Serge]","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"metasonix-bellend","title":"Metasonix - Bellend [4x4]","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page-header\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4x4 R*S FORMAT MODULE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 itemprop=\"name\"\u003eRK2 XS-VCA\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"articleBody\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe RK2 XS-VCA is the ultimate vacuum-tube VCA. It isn't merely a tube VCA, in fact. It's also-\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* a TUBE preamp with gain of approximately 30 dB\u003cbr\u003e* an inverting\/non-inverting amplifier for stereo and signal-canceling effects\u003cbr\u003e* and\/or an extreme distortion effect.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can be set to simply be a plain vanilla VCA, with moderate tube distortion. Overdrive it for beautiful slow-onset clipping distortion. Or turn up the FEEDBACK control and beware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does it sound like? Imagine a slightly tubby tube amplifier, suddenly turning into a screaming chainsaw. And flying around the room to break your sappy bleeps and bloops. A bulldozer on fire crushing your nads. Strange tentacles of doom rise up from the bottom of the ocean and slap your mother's asscrack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr you can have anything in between. All voltage controllable with one CV input.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrigger and CV inputs have 100k ohm impedance. The maximum audio output is \"hot\" (up to +10 dBu) and able to drive a 600-ohm load. 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Using a Vactrol, the pitch of the RK4 is sweepable from less than 20 Hz to more than 2 kHz, continuously, via front-panel control or a CV input. By adjusting the waveshape\/resonance control, the sinewave signal produced by the RK4 can be trimmed to less than 10% THD (depending on operating pitch)---with NONE of the problems inherent in solid-state oscillators and sine waveshapers. Because the Wien bridge contains no piecewise sine shaper or amplitude-control circuit or component. The tube itself performs that job. So the distortion products are entirely low-order, unlike the \"sine waves\" that solid-state VCOs or samplers produce.\u003cbr style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eTurn up the RESONANCE, and the oscillator output gives a unique soft-clipped square-wave sound. 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It uses the tube in a way never seen before -- until Metasonix came along. Waveshaping is provided by our special vacuum-tube \"pulser\" circuit that spits irregular pulses onto the input waveform. The pulses synchronize erratically with the input pitch (if a waveform with sharp transitions is used). Interaction and a strange sort of \"resonance\" occurs with the input pitch. The effect is very roughly similar to a (very weird) PLL sound effect. Combined with true vacuum-tube circuit distortion and primitive ring modulation, this can provide a vast range of complex, aggressive distortion effects, utterly unique in the world. 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