Used on a snare drum, the Smasher adds body and sustain. It can add thickness and grit to any drum or bass track, or completely crush a bus, producing an aggressive sound, impossible to achieve with other plugins. With our unique tuning and its beautiful and uncomplicated interface, the Pulsar Smasher gives this mythical circuit a new personality. For the first time, all these phenomena are perfectly reproduced, with all the associated sound peculiarities.
In all-button mode, several things happen in the circuit, including changes in the bias voltages. Based on an internal feedback configuration, these designs are known to be fast and colorful, capable from soft limiting to heavily saturated tones.
The 1176 is a vintage FET (field effect transistor) compressor.
Typical effects you can get with the Smasher are the raw and gritty sounds of bands such as Vulfpeck, The Whitefield Brothers or The Black Keys. Decidedly not versatile, this effect is especially useful to enhance the ambience in drum busses, but many other creative uses are possible. While remaining very close to the original circuitry, this modification adds definition to the transients and makes the whole tone more aggressive. Think of it as something halfway between a compressor and a saturation. Although probably an unanticipated feature, this mode has become very popular because of its distorted, explosive and highly compressed sound. But it just so happens that all 4 buttons can be pressed at the same time, this is called “all buttons mode” or “British Mode”. The original 1176 compressor has 4 selectable ratios.
Pulsar Smasher is an unprecedented custom modification of the 1176 compressor circuit, which we stumbled upon while fine-tuning other algorithms. Overview A custom mod on a classic circuit
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