Elysia KARACTER-500 500 Series Saturator

Audio is organic. Rough edges let you know it's real. Elysia's Karacter 500 series saturator lets you choose your reality. From gruff charm to total decimation, it's all at your fingertips. And you choose it the old school way, by turning knobs and pushing buttons.

The 500's discrete class-A circuitry offers a full palette of color from subtle mastering-grade saturation and warm tube-inspired distortion to over-the-top destruction that awaits your inspired aural brush. Karacter has two independent channels of saturation which can process in dual mono, stereo link, and even mid-side configuration. You don't need racks of vintage gear to access this degree of tonal freedom. All you need is Karacter

Elysia KARACTER-500 Includes:

• Karacter 500-Series Coloring Box

Elysia KARACTER-500 Features:

• Discrete Class A Topology running in constant Class A mode
• Mastering-Grade Saturation generates soft-curve THD for musical symmetrical clipping
• FET Shred mode, for a broad range of tube-like asymmetrical distortion
• Turbo Boost shifts the operating point of the distortion circuit in FET shred mode
• Color Filter changes the harmonics-frequency relation for even more tonal-color variation
• Integrated M/S matrix lets you process the mid and side signals
• Dual Mono/Stereo Link gives you true dual-mono and linked-stereo operation
• Stepped potentiometers let you recall your settings precisely

Elysia KARACTER-500 Specifications:

• Frequency response
  • 100% Dry:
  • @ 0 dBu: 0.013 %
  • @ +10 dBu: 0.024 %
• THD+N 100 % Wet (in Saturation Mode)
  • @ 0 dBu Min Drive: 0.47 %
  • @ 0 dBu Max Drive: 35.1 %
• Noise floor 20 Hz – 20 kHz (A-weighted)
  • 100% Dry: -91 dBu
  • 100% Wet (depending on Drive and Gain): -81 to -91 dBu
• Dynamic range
  • 20 Hz – 22 kHz: 112 dB
• Maximum level
  • Input: +21 dBu
  • Output: +21 dBu
• Impedance
  • Input: 10 kOhm
  • Output: 68 Ohm
• Power consumption
  • Total: 210 mA
  • Per slot: 105 mA