ThrillseekerXTC: bringing mojo back
ThrillseekerXTC is a contemporary exciter build around a parallel analog equalizer design. It takes our hearing sensitivity into account especially regarding the perception of audio transients, masking effects and loudness. ThrillseekerXTC offers frequency boosting on three individual parallel bands with pre-selected frequency ranges for the low, mid and high frequency spectrum. The mid band also performs compression by an opto-electrical circuit. A dedicated output stage adds further idiosyncrasies typically found in transformer coupled tube stages.
ThrillseekerXTC is all about adding weight, vibe and attitude back to the sound. It delivers all the character of an analog signal path and provides what digital processing usually is hard pushed to, including a rich low-end experience and that vibrant expensive top-end. The mkIII version primarily introduces VST3 support as well as a number of changes and improvements in the following areas:
- Decoupling EQ from DRIVE/MOJO controls – the latter now controls a dedicated downstream output amplifier stage
- Improved overall THD performance featuring effectively distortion-free compression for the mid-range as well as a silky top-end
- Updated components, two new audio transformer circuits introduced, new inductor based (LC) filter network
A complete list is provided in the included manual. The update is available for Windows in VST and VST3 format as freeware. Download your copy here.
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Very excited to see the update! π
This is such a great Christmas gift – thank you!
Thanks a lot!
This looks great, please consider releasing a 64bit version of epicverb. Thank you!
Oh god I’d pay for this to be available on Mac
Pretty please? π
* First: of all. Really thx for this amazing plugin.
* Second: OMG, I Deleted mkII version to replace it for mkIII and now, my projects using mkII are a missing plugin because mkIII seems not to be recognise as an update of the mkII. Someone had something similar?
The mkII version is still online: https://bit.ly/3imWKOq
Really nice improvement. The extra even harmonics in the Mojo section gives way more sinergy with the trafo (mainly odd). Just a bit weird that the 2nd mantains its level regardless of the setting (while the others build up with Mojo’s increase).
Another great difference is that now harmonics decrease with frequency, not many low/mid freq saturators around, lesser with that much utilities for free!
You also fixed the weird comb filtering of the Mojo stage and the antialiasing filter resonance, nice! I also like the fact that HF shelving gain increases proportional to the set frequency. Is this because your filter network changes freq with a variable R that also affects the gain? Either way sounds more like “real world” electronics.
I’ll be adding this one to my collection. Keep it up! Love your plugins and looking forward to what’s to come π
Thanks for the detailed feedback – much appreciated!