Chakra

What Chakra is

Chakra is an analog-style enhancer built around a multi-stage harmonic engine and a smooth, musical tone curve. It blends three colors: tube warmth with rich even harmonics, a console-style mid focus in the center, and a germanium-inspired path that adds an open, sweet top end. You can use Chakra on individual tracks as a highly flexible analog tone and color tool, or on the master bus as a mastering-grade passive parallel EQ and saturator. The Chakra knob mixes this harmonic engine with a broad analog EQ contour that gently shapes lows, mids and highs, which you can further tune with BASS, MID and Tone EQ. You can also use Chakra as a pure saturator: leave the Chakra knob at 0 and raise THD, in which case the tone stays essentially unchanged while saturation increases. In combination with the Chakra knob, Tone EQ and Mix, this gives you huge flexibility: you can use Chakra on individual tracks as a highly flexible color saturation tool, or on the master bus as a mastering-grade EQ and saturator. It is easy to dial in, extremely musical, and can become your secret weapon both on every track and on the final mix. In the analog world, a device like this would cost tens of thousands of dollars, because it would combine the power of several classic pieces of gear with completely different circuit topologies. Here you get all of that in a single plugin. This combination of sound quality, simplicity and flexibility is very rare. Try it and you will hear it immediately.

Typical use: mix bus / mastering

1. Put it in the chain Place Chakra on your mix bus before the limiter. Keep your usual EQ and compressor, Chakra adds harmonics and broad tone, it does not replace your main processors. 2. Start from the default state Load Chakra and leave the defaults: Mix 100 %, Chakra 0, Tone EQ centered, THD minimum, BASS ON, MID ON. 3. Find the sweet spot with the Chakra knob Play the full mix and slowly turn the Chakra knob up. Aim around 15–20 % for a bit more glue, weight and openness while staying natural. If it feels better than bypass without sounding like a special effect, this is your core setting. 4. Match tone with Tone EQ Compare to references at the same loudness. For more openness and air, turn Tone EQ slightly to the right. For a warmer, rounder mix, turn Tone EQ slightly to the left. 5. Fine tuning Low end grows too much when you turn Chakra up: turn BASS off. Want mids more forward and even: turn MID off. 6. Increase density and drive Raise THD for stronger tube / console / diode harmonics. THD works even with the Chakra knob at 0. 7. Parallel master sweetener Drive Chakra and THD a bit harder, and use Delta mode (press “OUT”) to hear exactly what Chakra adds. Then turn Delta off and pull Mix down from 100 % until the master feels natural again. In this setup Chakra works as a parallel master sweetener, with heavy processing inside but blended in as subtly or boldly as you like.