Blend the Body enhancement with Mix¶
The "Body / Mix" knob controls how much of the processed low-frequency signal is blended back with the dry audio. Use it to dial in the amount of Body enhancement without overwhelming the original signal.
Before you start¶
- PUDU must be enabled on the side you want to adjust. If the Body group is not visible, the PUDU stage may be bypassed — see Bypass PUDU from either chain.
- Open the relevant applet: "Aetherial TX Voice Processor" for transmit, or "Aetherial RX Poodoo™" for receive. Double-click the PUDU stage in the CHAIN widget on the matching side to open the frameless editor if the applet is not already visible.
- When the PUDU stage is bypassed, the entire applet tile dims to approximately 55 % opacity. Full opacity is restored as soon as the stage is re-enabled.
Steps¶
- Locate the Body group bracket in the applet. It contains three knobs: Drive, Tune, and Mix.
- Turn the Mix knob under the Body bracket to the desired blend level.
- Turning toward 0 % passes the dry signal with no low-frequency enhancement.
- Turning toward 100 % blends the full processed signal in.
- The value is saved automatically. No additional confirmation is needed.
Inline value editing¶
v26.5.2.1 adds direct keyboard entry for knob values.
- Click the value text below a knob to activate the inline editor. The text area gains a thin cyan border to indicate edit mode.
- Type a new value. The editor accepts:
- Plain numbers (e.g.,
30,8500) - Decimal values (e.g.,
15.5) - Locale-aware formatting (e.g.,
12,5in comma-decimal locales) - Numbers with trailing unit text (e.g.,
30 %,5.0 kHz,100 Hz) - Press Enter or click outside the editor to commit the value. The knob updates to the new setting, clamped to its valid range.
- Press Escape to cancel the edit without changing the value.
- While the editor is active, the mouse wheel adjusts the knob as usual — wheel events are forwarded to the knob.
The inline editor uses the same formatting as the normal knob display (for example, percentage values appear as 30 %, frequency values as 100 Hz or 5.0 kHz).
What each control does¶
| Control | Default | Valid range |
|---|---|---|
| Even | Not selected by default | N/A (radio button exclusive with Odd) |
| Odd | Not selected by default | N/A (radio button exclusive with Even) |
| Poo / Drive (TX) | 6.0 dB | 0.0 to 24.0 dB |
| Poo / Tune (TX) | 100 Hz | 50 to 160 Hz |
| Poo / Mix (TX) | 30 % | 0 % to 100 % (stored as 0.0 to 1.0) |
| Poo / Drive (RX) | 6.0 dB | 0.0 to 24.0 dB |
| Poo / Tune (RX) | 100 Hz | 50 to 160 Hz |
| Poo / Mix (RX) | 30 % | 0 % to 100 % (stored as 0.0 to 1.0) |
| AetherVoice logo | Animated branded logo that pulses with the wet-signal RMS. Displays 'AetherVoice™' wordmark. | PooDooLogo widget — 40 px minimum height. |
The knob display shows the value as a whole-number percentage (for example, "30 %"). Internally the value is stored as a linear fraction between 0.0 and 1.0.
Tips¶
- The TX and RX sides have fully independent Mix values. Adjusting one does not affect the other.
- Watch the PooDoo logo — its brightness pulses with the wet (processed) signal RMS. A noticeable increase in pulse intensity as you raise Mix confirms the low-frequency processing is audible in the blend.
- Start at the default of 30 % and increase gradually. Heavy Mix values can thicken the low end to the point of muddiness, especially if Poo / Drive is also high.
- Use the inline edit feature to type exact values instead of fine-tuning with the mouse wheel — for example, type
45to set exactly 45 % Mix. - The Even and Odd radio buttons select the processing mode. Even mode uses Aphex-style asymmetric shaping with Big Bottom LF saturation. Odd mode uses Behringer-style symmetric tanh shaping with a feed-forward bass compressor.