audiority Blue Face Vintage Fuzz Pedal Plugin User Manual
- June 16, 2024
- audiority
Table of Contents
To The Max
Registered to: Luca Capozzi – v1.2
Blue Face Vintage Fuzz Pedal Plugin
Blue Face
(AAX, AU, CLAP, VST2, VST3)
produced by Luca Capozzi (Audiority), April 2018.
Current Manual version: v1.3
Blue Face is an analog modeled simulation of the classic silicon vintage
Dunlop® Fuzz Face™ made in the late ‘60s.
This is one of the best known fuzz pedals ever made, used to fully blast
amplifiers tube stages.
We modified the original circuit to get more bite even at minimum settings.
Please, read carefully both product specifications and system requirements
before purchasing any Audiority product.
- All product names used in this document and our site (www.audiority.com and associated Audiority websites) are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Audiority. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones/sounds/characteristics were studied during Audiority’s sound model development.
Dunlop and Fuzz Face are registered trademarks of Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc.
Credits
Code & DSP: Luca Capozzi (Audiority Srls), April 2018.
GUI Design: Luca Capozzi
Published by Audiority Srls
Copyright © 2018 – Progsounds Limited t/a Audiority – All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2018-2024 – Audiority Srls – All rights reserved.
Specifications
- Independent Volume and Fuzz controls
- Pre and Post effect gain
- Mix control
- Noise gate
- Resizable interface
System Requirements
| PC | MAC (Intel) | MAC (Silicon) |
|---|
• Windows 7 64bit or later
• Intel i5 or equivalent
• 4 GB RAM
• Screen resolution: 1024×768
• VST2, VST3, AU, CLAP 64-bit host
• PT11 or higher, AAX 64-bit host| • OSX 10.13 or later
• Intel i5 or equivalent
• 4GB RAM
• Screen resolution: 1024×768
• VST2, VST3, AU, CLAP 64-bit host
• PT11 or higher, AAX 64-bit host| • macOS 11.0 or later
• M1 or higher
• 4 GB RAM
• Screen resolution: 1024×768
• VST2, VST3, AU, CLAP 64-bit host
• PT11 or higher, AAX 64-bit host
FILE LOCATIONS
Mac
All presets, license, IR files and settings are located in:
/Users/Shared/Audiority/
AAX, CLAP and VST plugins will be placed in their own Audiority sub-folder
located in:
AAX: /Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins/Audiority
CLAP: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/Audiority
VST: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/Audiority
VST3: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Audiority
PC
All presets, license, IR files and settings are located to:
C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Audiority
AAX, CLAP and VST plugins will be placed in their own Audiority sub-folder,
usually located in:
AAX: C:\Program Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins\Audiority
CLAP: {Your CLAP Path}\Audiority
VST: {Your VST Path}\Audiority
VST3: {Your VST3 Path}\Audiority
PLUGIN ACTIVATION
Once you install and open the plugin for the first time, it will be in Demo
Mode until a license file is loaded.
In Demo Mode the plugin will output 3 seconds of silence every minute.
You can activate the plugin either OFFLINE or ONLINE.
OFFLINE ACTIVATION
If you purchased the plugin from our site, you should have received an email
to download the installers and the license file. Save the license file you got
with your purchase email (or via our User Area) anywhere on your computer.
Then, to activate the plugin, click on the Audiority logo and select
“Register”. The Registration window will pop up allowing you to load the
license file you got while purchasing the plugin by clicking the “Load
License” button. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the license file on the
registration window.
NOTE: If you purchased the plugin from one of our dealers, please check
the “USER AREA AND REDEEM CODES” section below.
ONLINE ACTIVATION
If you are registered to our User Area, then you can activate the plugin
online.
Insert your Username (or
email address), your password and click the “Login” button. The license file
will be automatically delivered in your computer and the plugin will be
activated.
USER AREA AND REDEEM CODES
If you purchased from one of our dealers, then you should have received an
email with a redeem code. This code is required to deposit a license in your
User Area account and let you download the license file or activate the plugin
online.
If you don’t have an User Area account yet, please follow these steps:
- Go to https://www.audiority.com/register and fill out the signup form.
- Once registered, log in to your account by clicking the User Area section of our site. Click the REDEEM section of your account and paste the code you received via email from our dealer.
- After submitting the code, a license will be deposited in your account and will be shown in “MY PLUGINS”section of your User Area.
- Now you can click “License File” and save the license anywhere on your computer and ready to be loaded through the plugin registration window. You can also skip this part and activate your plugin online (see previous section of this manual).
USER PATHS SETTING
By selecting “Settings” from
the logo menu, you can change the path for Presets, License and IR folders.
You can also disable our Newsfeed from here.
Note: Please do not move the Settings folder from its default location.
Blue Face Parameters
TOOLBAR
The Toolbar allows you to manage the plugin presets, register the plugin and
set some global parameters.
Click the AUDIORITY logo, in the top left corner of the Toolbar, to visit our
website and social profiles, register the plugin, change the interface size
and customize the paths for license and preset files. The HQ button will
enable oversampling, useful to reduce
aliasing when the signal saturates. Use the Randomize and Reset buttons to
experiment with random presets or restoring it to its saved version. The
NOTIFICATIONS (bell) icon will show you when a new update is available and
other relevant news and offers.
BLUE FACE CONTROLS
VOLUME| Controls the output volume of the pedal
FUZZ| Sets the distortion amount. Set it to the minimum to get a some light
dirt and to the max for a massive destruction of your signal.
GLOBAL CONTROLS (bottom right)
GATE| Noise gate threshold.
IN| Pre effect gain
OUT| Post effect gain
MIX| Dry/wet signal mixer
RESIZING CONTROLS (Audiority logo menu)
Small Size| Reduce the size of the plugin interface
Default Size| Resets the plugin interface to its original size
Big Size| Increase the size of the plugin interface
CHANGELOG
v1.3 (Nov 2023)
- NEW: Framework update
- NEW: CLAP plugin format
- NEW: AAX Native Silicon
- FIX: Mac installer was asking for Rosetta on Silicon Macs
- FIX: Windows installer could erase User folder when updating
- BREAKING CHANGE: Minimum macOS version is now 10.13
v1.2 (June 2021)
- NEW: Updated Framework
- NEW: Universal 2 Binary for Apple Silicon Macs
- NEW: Improved GUI
- NEW: Corner Resizer
- FIX: Footer labels now show parameter values when using mouse wheel
- CHANGE: Global HQ
- BREAKING CHANGE: New Noise Gate
v1.1 (September 2020)
- NEW: HQ Mode
- NEW: Noise Gate
- NEW: Newsfeed
- NEW: VST3 plugin format
- NEW: HD GUI
- FIX: Mac OSX Catalina support
- BREAKING CHANGE: Dropped 32bit support
v1.01 (May 2019)
- NEW: Updated framework with new paths
- FIX: Improved performance
- FIX: DC when pedal is on
- FIX: GUI size not stored in DAW session
v1.0 (April 2018)
- Original release
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Last updated on Jan 25th, 2023
Thank You
We wanna thank you for
buying Audiority Blue Face plugin.
We hope you will enjoy it as much as we did.
If you have any question, concerns, technical issues
or even for just say ‘Hello’, get in touch with us at: [email protected]
or checkout our site at
www.audiority.com
Cheers,
Luca
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References
- Audiority - Professional Audio Plugins VST, AAX, AU, CLAP
- Audiority - Professional Audio Plugins VST, AAX, AU, CLAP
- FAQ - Audiority
- Register - Audiority
- User Area - Audiority
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