I have found that using Mid/Side mode when mastering is incredibly useful. Much more so than the normal crop of exciters and multiband exciters I have typically used. I've grown very sensitive to high freq over emphasis with many distortion and exciter effects over the years. But I am finding that Karacter gets a nice tonal boost to mid frequencies, especially in the side band, without adding noticeable or unwanted frequencies above 2k (mode dependent) There is a real sense that the designers not only set out to do something interesting with sound, but also approached it from an understanding of what modern music production is doing in context of human hearing, particularly above 2k. This is a very useful tool even when working on tracks that are already hyped or overly bright. I'm so glad to have found this.
Subtle to Extreme
★★★★★
by RefineAudio
From gentle harmonic saturation to full on destructive distortion, Karacter has me covered. It's great to add colour to instruments in my mixes.
Amazing
★★★★★
by saffs
Nothing else like this, use it where you'd never think of using it. Makes a dull loop become the track you want to write to. Incredibly useful and inspiring tool!
Great emulation
★★★★★
by Miguel Pinheiro Marques
We own and use daily an hardware karacter in our mastering studio. I was blown away when I tried the karacter plugin, it replicates exactly all the nuances and characteristics of the hardware unit. From subtle saturation to insane amounts of distortion the karacter plugin does it all exactly like the hardware.
Red Hot
★★★★★
by Rick Veneer
Owners of the hardware say this plugin is as close as it gets. Capable of adding bags of "karacter" to any source and delivering subtlety or total destruction. Marvelous.
One of my favourite saturation tools
★★★★★
by MarkRM
This is one of the few saturation devices that manages to retain the fidelity and character of the source material, even when driven at its most extreme settings. It's tough to make it sound 'bad,' and very easy to have it behave well in a mix.
Karacter
★★★★★
by Perry
I love this module I have other Elysia's modules in my 500 frame and have been considering getting the 500 series Module. but with the range and tone of this plugin I don't need to I would have to AB comparison the hardware and the software. Don't think I need to now. This Plugin has an incredible range of tonal colors. Kudos!!!!!!
Elysia Karacter
★★★★★
by George Ware
A very versatile saturator! from warm to hot it does what the says it adds character and harmonic tone to all of your tracks and buses. Karacter adds the spice to your mix
Elysia Karacter
★★★★★
by lurojas
I have been using Karacter for a few weeks now, and I have to say that I love the subtle harmonic distortion that I can get out of this thing. I have used it on parallel drum bus processing, and I have also used it to warm up brass and wind instruments. I love this tool!!!
Amazing
★★★★★
by DJ Variant
Even if you don't use it in your mastering stage buy it for the mix version. Subtle to insane. Fantastic on drums especially snares. Also great on cymbals and hats. Can also help punch through mids like a dream. What ever they are asking buy it.