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 harmonic colors: tube-style warmth with rich even-order harmonics, console-style density and mid focus with balanced odd/even content, and a germanium-inspired path that adds airy presence with sweet upper harmonics. Use it on individual tracks for fast analog color, or on the master bus as a mastering-grade parallel EQ + saturator. The Chakra knob combines the harmonic engine with a broad analog EQ contour, and you can fine-tune the balance with BASS, MID, Tone EQ, and Mix. Want pure saturation without changing the curve? Keep the Chakra knob at 0 and drive THD, the tone stays essentially the same while harmonic content increases. Easy to dial, extremely musical, and flexible enough to live on every track or your final mix.

Typical use: mix bus / mastering

1) Place it in the chain • Put Chakra on your mix bus before the limiter • Keep your usual EQ + compressor in place, Chakra adds harmonics and broad tone, it doesn’t replace your main processors ⸻ 2) Start from the default state • Load Chakra and keep the defaults: • Mix: 100% • Chakra: 0 • Tone EQ: center • THD: minimum • BASS: ON • MID: ON ⸻ 3) Find the sweet spot with the Chakra knob • Play the full mix and slowly turn Chakra up • A good starting range is 15-20% for extra glue, weight, and openness while staying natural • If it feels better than bypass without sounding like an effect, that’s your core setting ⸻ 4) Match the tone with Tone EQ • Level-match and compare to references • Use Tone EQ: • Slightly right = more openness and air • Slightly left = warmer, rounder mix ⸻ 5) Fine-tune the contour • If the low end grows too much when you raise Chakra, turn BASS OFF • If you want mids more forward and even, turn MID OFF ⸻ 6) Add density and drive • Raise THD for stronger tube/console/diode harmonics • THD works even with Chakra at 0, so you can add harmonics without changing the curve ⸻ 7) Parallel master sweetener (optional, powerful) • Push Chakra + THD a bit harder • Use Delta mode (press OUT) to hear exactly what Chakra is adding • Turn Delta off, then pull Mix down from 100% until the master feels natural again Result: heavy processing inside, blended as subtly or boldly as you like, perfect as a parallel master sweetener.