OMEGA 2
MANUAL / DESIGN NOTES
IN / OUT / VU
Input and Output Gain controls adjust the gain pre- or post- eq, with a range of +/- 12dB.
0VU Trim determines what dBFS value corresponds to 0dBu on the VU meter. The default is -18dBFS = 0dBu.
Intensity
Increasing Intensity gradually brings each Omega's character into focus and then, if you keep pushing, will light it up until it glows.
PHASE
Flips the phase of the plugin's output signal.
-20 DB PAD
Activating the -20dB pad trims the Input signal by -20dB and increases the Output by +20dB, giving Omega an additional 20dB of headroom. This allows for a wider range of subtle effects before heavier distortions kick in, especially on input signals that are hotter in level to begin with.
Hi- AND LO-PASS FILTERS
6 / 12 / 18 / 24
Selects the slope of a given pass filter.
HI-PASS
Adjusts the HPF Corner Frequency from 20Hz up to 5kHz.
LO-PASS
Adjusts the LPF Corner Frequency from 40Hz up to 22kHz.
XY CONTROLS
Simultaneously controls both pass filters. Dragging horizontally on the X-Axis increases or decreases the Lo-Pass corner frequency. Dragging vertically on the Y-Axis increases or decreases the Hi-Pass corner frequency.
MAKEUP / BLEND
BLEND
Blends the unprocessed Input signal with the post-Makeup signal.
MAKEUP
Raises or lowers the gain of the signal post-distortion, pre-Blend.
XY CONTROL
Allows simultaneous control over Blend and Makeup, similar to using both hands to tweak a piece of analog gear. Dragging horizontally increases or decreases the post-distortion Blend, dragging vertically increases or decreases the amount of Makeup gain.
notes from the designer
If you’ve used the original Omegas, you’ll recognize Omega 2’s distortions, because they’re exactly the same. What we changed is everything around those distortions.
For the last decade we've obsessed over ways that subtle filtering, both before and after distortion, can shape an overall tonal curve that sounds like a natural result of the saturation rather than a separate, pasted-on effect. So rather than mess with the distortions we love, we left them untouched and used the original Magpha EQ algorithms to gently focus each saturation more on the parts of the signal where it naturally excels.
To our ears, the result is a bigger, more open sound at lower settings while remaining surprisingly smooth at more aggressive settings.
With the sonics handled, we turned to workflow and added just enough controls to increase the versatility of these plugins, while retaining the simplicity at the core of the originals. So Omega 2 remains centered around a single Intensity control, and every other control exists to shape what Intensity does.