Transient Designer distorts Bass

[astroman]

anyone can verify that statement ?
I've noticed it first on my CoreDuo XP system and thought it might be the old card in trouble on new hardware, so I've set up the Asus/PIII/Win98 system again - same result.
No matter if Scope 3.1 or 4.5, old or fresh install - TD distorts bass frequencies, the lower the frequency, the more.
I'm pretty sure I used that plugin on electric bass and didn't notice any artifacts at all.
Wtf can it be on my card, that only THIS plugin is affected ???
Of course the instrument level has been double checked and the parallel 'clean' channel plays perfectly.
Attentuator in TD is engaged, too. With 3 ticks attack increase to the right the effect is very prominent, but I wouldn't buy a distortion pedal with that sound either...

cheers, Tom

[pollux]

Never used TD on a bass, but I never noticed such behaviour on kick drums..
Can run a test this evening to see what happens

In the meanwhile you could give a try to DAS TR1D to see if it's something weird on the TD plugin itself, or related to altering attack / sustain on a bass

[nightscope]

Hi Tom,

I tried the TD on a pretty average bass sound just now to see. Lightwave, Pick Bass. Attack @ max 15. No distortion.

ns

[Shroomz~>]

It's entirely possible that it distorts at lower attack speeds. I remember MCCY specifically developing at least one TD style plug & some cool comps that don't have this issue due to the sdk techniques he used & circuit designs he developed. I'm sure there's a bass comp of his in the device forum which would be worth a try with your bass guitar, but I can't remember it's name.

cheers,
Mark

[Shroomz~>]

Found it. ANTIKbass / NuBaNuCo might be worth a try Tom.

[astroman]

thanks for the suggestions, but I don't really have the problem to apply TD (or a similiar plug) on that particular instrument.
I just noticed it's failure - and thinking about it... I've used TD on another bass quite frequently with good results.
Probably I have a messed download (or the particular archive became corrupted later), so I'll re-install another time...
There seems to be an increasing probability for errors that 'cross-extinguish' on very large file transfers. Had that with couple of images recently where transmission succeeded, but the client couldn't open the files due to errors.

cheers, Tom

[astroman]

well, case solved - but you'd hardly guess what caused it ...
the powersupply
not sure if it was pure noise or wrong power regulation - but the audible difference is stunning.
The culprit was a NoName SL500 (edited: sorry for messing it with Enermax originally) replaced by an industrial grade Fortron FSP180
As mentioned earlier the system had a rather 'muddy' sound response recently, which I related to the old NAD preamp driving phones and monitors...
one never stops learning

cheers, Tom

[Shroomz~>]

one never stops learning

Indeed.

Nice problem solving btw.

cheers,
Mark