{"id":24450,"date":"2011-10-08T21:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T04:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/1313\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T04:40:29","slug":"sonat-x1-pro-channel-softube-saturation-stock-tube-saturation-analyzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24450","title":{"rendered":"Sonar X1 Pro Channel Softube saturation & stock Tube saturation analyzed."},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you wondering how the Softube saturation differs from the stock Sonar X1 tube model, this will go over the differences.<\/p>\n

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This shows the harmonic plot of the Softube saturation driven to 3% THD+N. The harmonics after the 1st 1k tone are the added harmonics by Softube Sat.<\/p>\n

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The harmonic plot of the Softube saturation driven to 0.5% THD+N.<\/p>\n

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This is a realistic model of an analog saturation stage.<\/p>\n

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The harmonic plot of the stock PC Tube saturation driven to 3% THD+N. Notice the lack of even order harmonics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The harmonic plot of the stock PC Tube saturation driven to 0.5% THD+N.<\/p>\n

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This shows the level of Softube distortion added based on frequency when set to “neutral mode” driven to 3% THD+N<\/p>\n

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The level of Softube distortion added based on frequency when set to “Keep low mode” driven to 3% THD+N. Notice the level of harmonics lowers for low frequencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The level of Softube distortion added based on frequency when set to “Keep High mode” driven to 3% THD+N. Notice the level of harmonics lowers for high frequencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The level of the PC Tube distortion added based on frequency when set to “Type I” driven to 3% THD+N.<\/p>\n

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The level of the PC Tube distortion added based on frequency when set to “Type II” driven to 3% THD+N. Notice the level of harmonics lowers for high frequencies.<\/p>\n

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All in all the Softube is a more accurate emulation. But that’s not to say that some might like the sound of the dominate odd harmonics of the PC tube on some sources.<\/p>\n

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For those of you wondering how the Softube saturation differs from the stock Sonar X1<\/p>\n

Read the postSonar X1 Pro Channel Softube saturation & stock Tube saturation analyzed.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,205],"class_list":["post-24450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","tag-saturation","tag-sonar-x1","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24366,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24366","url_meta":{"origin":24450,"position":0},"title":"URS saturation analyzed.","author":"Eric","date":"July 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Intensity sweeps of the saturation modes. 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