Steep – Soundtoys Decapitator User Manual
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common complaint of some distortion devices. We’ve decided to give you
total control over the amount of ‘Fizz’ you’d like to leave in, or take out.
Steep
The Steep switch alters the slope of the High Cut filter. When it is OFF, the
High Cut filter is a very gentle 6 dB per octave rolloff. When it is ON, a
super-steep 30 dB per octave filter is switched in.
Even though Decapitator is NOT a guitar amp emulator, the Steep setting IS
useful for emulating the sound of a guitar amplifier speaker cabinet. Step
Steep to ON and set the HighCut to somewhere in the 4kHz to 5 kHz range.