karacter 500
The Analog Saturator Module
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.
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Every single of its many aspects – sound, features, circuitry, components, design, materials, manufacturing – has been thought over and over until there was just nothing left to improve. Basically, every single part of our fine products is custom, and most of these are made according to our own designs and specs.
Only the best components the market has to offer are good enough for the karacter, and it shows. Each of our product is manually built to order and tested by ourselves, here at our headquarters in Germany.
Our product benefits sum up in an audio quality that is beyond all doubt. Even when extreme settings are used, the sound always stays clean and powerful.
“OK, I admit it, I am gushing. I love this little box. Why? Because after trying many distortion/saturation plug-ins, patching in reamped overdrive pedals, clipping my microphone preamps in series, and more – techniques which can easily get over the top and out of control fast – the karacter offers the amount of control, blending, and sonic throw I have been craving in a saturation/distortion box.
The karacter 500 is a great tool to add analog grit and life to sterile MIDI-based DAW tracks. I even had success gently thickening up an acoustic guitar/electric bass duet, and was surprised by how much I liked the results.”
Like all elysia 500 series modules, the karacter 500 has been thoroughly tested and announced to be fully VPR compliant by our friends from API.
The VPR Alliance is a program of standardization and consistency guidelines for approved manufacturers wishing to design products for API’s 500-series rack format.
The program provides complete design specifications for manufacturers interested in producing third-party modules that physically fit and electronically conform to API’s rack specifications.