- Product: Gem FUSE
- Publisher: Overloud
- Version: 1.0.1
- Requirements: Windows 7 or later, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later
- Source: https://www.overloud.com/products/fuse
The Gem Fuse is a suite of six processors that offer exceptional analog character and versatility. They are designed to bring the perfect blend of tonal color, weight and space to your mix bus and stereo stems, with the warmth and detail that only real analog circuitry can provide.
- Processor 1: Analog Preamp and HPF
- Processor 2: Analog Drive
- Processor 3: Indigo EQ
- Processor 4: HF Smoother
- Processor 5: Stereo Image
- Processor 6: Transformer
- Built-in Mid-Side matrix
- Obsessively accurate recreation of the transformer harmonic generation, with Overloud’s Harmonic Matching Technology
- Resizable graphic interface
- Internal operating level calibration
- Multilevel undo-redo
Discover the Fuse Colors
Analog Preamp
The Analog Preamp adds a subtle coloration to the tone emulating the typical behavior of the discrete circuit design. It is coupled with a discrete Low Cut filter with a “Fat” option, that helps cleaning the very low end while keeping a deep and warm bass sensation.
Analog Drive
Analog Drive is a unique harmonic enhancement processor designed to add glue and power to your mix. The Drive and Density controls work in tandem to create harmonic saturation and gentle compression by overloading an analog circuit. Use it subtly for a smooth thickening effect, or push it hard for a more aggressive, distorted tone.
Indigo EQ
The Indigo EQ is a minimum phase-shift, two-band shelving EQ. The filters have a carefully selected frequency and phase curves to create a musical and intuitive EQ designed to quickly dial in low-end weight and high-end sheen.
HF Smoother
A novel High Frequency dynamic processor that delivers the distinctive sound of high frequency rounding in the analogue domain. A compressor that affects high frequencies only, optimised for smooth and transparent harshness reduction and a tape-like high-frequency roll off – great for taming brittle high frequency fizz.
Stereo Image
A Stereo Image enhancer based on the “Stereo Shuffling” processing technique. It allows to widen or narrow the stereo image in a frequency dependent amount, allowing to inject some really interesting depth effects into the mix.
Transformer
Emulates a 600-ohm, 1:1-wound under-damped transform circuit that introduces subtle low-frequency saturation, alongside a high-frequency phase-shift. The result is a simultaneous thickening of the low-end and an added sparkle to the high-end.
Pushing the Emulation to a New Level
Transformer-based analog circuits are renowned for their musical harmonics and their ability to deliver a deep, warm bass response, yet they have always been challenging to emulate.
Their harmonic structure is frequency-dependent, generating more harmonics in the low end while introducing a phase shift in the high frequencies.
In addition, transformers exhibit a form of “memory,” meaning their harmonic response changes according to the audio that has occurred in the preceding milliseconds—an effect that plays a significant role in transient processing.
This is where most of the digital emulations fail, even the official ones. The FUSE uses the Overloud’s unique Harmonic Matching Technology in order to recreate the original “coloration” in a way that has never been possible before.