Name: Dino-Roar
Brand: Desert Moon Audio
Price: 44.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Dino-Roar

Limiter / Harmonic Detonator

Why it jumps out of the speaker

The DR-09 is a limiter and a distortion box that refuse to be separated. LEVEL is a shunt-JFET feedback limiter — the detector listens to the output, so the ratio is effectively infinite and gain reduction and harmonic mangling become the same event. CRUNCH is three discrete Class-A stages clipping asymmetrically, with operating points that drift under sustained level so the distortion breathes with the playing. STACK runs the limiter into the stages, which the hardware this descends from will not do.

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The Dino-Roar panel stepping through LEVEL, CRUNCH and STACK with the mood lamp answering

About Dino-Roar

The DR-09 is a limiter and a distortion box that refuse to be separated. LEVEL is a shunt-JFET feedback limiter: the detector listens to the output, so the ratio is effectively infinite, and the JFET's channel resistance moves with the signal across it. Gain reduction and harmonic mangling are the same event. Twenty to thirty decibels of reduction is normal operation here, not abuse.

CRUNCH is a different animal — three discrete Class-A stages in series, clipping asymmetrically so even harmonics arrive first, with operating points that drift under sustained level. The distortion breathes with the playing instead of sitting still.

STACK runs the limiter into the stages. The hardware this descends from makes you pick one or the other. This doesn't.

Key features

Three modes. LEVEL for limiting, CRUNCH for the Class-A stages, STACK for both in series.

Two voices. MK1 is narrow and nasty; MK2 is full-bandwidth and better behaved.

Program-dependent release. FAST, MED and SLOW — a lone transient recovers quickly, sustained level lets go slowly, at every setting.

Sidechain filter. OFF, 100 or 250 Hz — the difference between a kick that detonates the whole mix and one that stays put.

TONE, pre or post. A passive-style two-pole low-pass you can put in front of the circuit or after it.

Delay-aligned MIX. Parallel crush that never comb-filters.

STOMP. Re-injects the transient energy the limiter shaves off, gated to attacks — the crushed body keeps its snap.

A second row the hardware never had room for. SAFE ceiling, stereo link, an external sidechain input, and M/S — detonate just the middle of the mix, or just the sides.

Metering that tells you something. A gain-reduction ladder in real decibels, peak-hold meters with latched clip lights, and the mood lamp — green while it limits, red while it distorts.

Everything nonlinear runs at 4x oversampling, and bypass is ramped, click-free and host-linked.

INPUT driven up and back with the gain-reduction ladder filling and the clip lamp latching

Both switch rows stepping through mode, voice, speed, sidechain and M/S settings

Quickstart tips

Start in LEVEL and push INPUT. The threshold never moves, so INPUT is the whole performance. Ten to twenty decibels on the ladder is a working setting, not a warning.

Pick the voice for the job. MK1 when you want attitude, MK2 when you want to keep the top end.

Use the sidechain filter on drums. At OFF the kick drives everything; at 100 or 250 the snare and cymbals keep their own dynamics.

MIX is how you get away with it. Crush it completely, then blend back until the dry signal is just being pushed from behind.

STACK is the loud one. When something has to jump out of the speaker, that's the mode.

Start from the factory bank. Parallel Jump, Drum Detonator, Vocal Attitude, Sneaky Glue, Crunch Guitar, Lo-Fi Break, Total Destruction and Bass Grind are the jobs it was built for.

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