Overloud GEM Fuse

Six Analog Coloration Tools in a Single Plugin

Fuse emulates an already famous modern stereo outboard processor.

This suite of six processors offers exceptional analog character and versatility.

Fuse is 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.

The processors inside of Fuse:

• Analog Preamp and HPF
• Analog Drive
• Indigo EQ
• HF Smoother
• Stereo Image
• Transformer

Fuse has an obsessively accurate recreation of the transformer harmonic generation feature, using Overloud's revered Harmonic Matching Technology.

It also offers features not available in the hardware such as:

• Resizable graphic interface
• Internal operating level calibration
• Multi-level undo/redo
• Built-in Mid-Side matrix

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, which helps clean 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 analog 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.

Beyond The Original Hardware

Fuse extends the features of the original hardware and combines the flexibility of the digital world to the character of the analog processing.

The built-in Mid-Side matrix allows for splitting the plug-in to Mid/Side and processing the center and the stereo image with different settings, with no external complex routing.

Additional controls expand the processors' capabilities, going beyond what the original hardware could offer.

You can select the unit calibration to change the harmonic generation.

Pushing 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 higher 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 to recreate the original "coloration" in a way that has never been possible before.

Whether mixing or mastering, Overloud's Fuse will add so much character, depth, and luster to your sound, you may never produce without it!