Analog Heat +FX: Warble noise bypasses wet/dry mix?

Elektron Gear Analog Heat
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As in some other posts about the Heat +FX, I was hearing some noise from my unit. In my case, turns out the warble noise parameter was turned up and the effect was enabled. I could get rid of the noise by turning the parameter to zero, or turning off the effect.

But I also expected to be able to remove the noise by turning the wet/dry mix to full dry. But this did NOT work. Apparently, warble’s noise (and its HP filter) bypasses the wet/dry mix.

Seems like an odd design choice insofar as I would have expected the wet/dry mix on every fx to work the same. My personal preference would have been to set all aspects of a tape effect together (ie, warble depth, speed, etc plus noise) and then dial in how much I want.

It’s easy enough to work with the current design…just strikes me as odd more than anything.

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…it actually is an odd design by nature, since it’s a pure truu analog circuit device with additional digital send fx added in it’s most actual version…

that dry/wet hw knob remains oldschool/as originally intended and attenuates “only” the analog circuits involvement…
which is nothing but good news for this unique swedish device…

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since this effect introduces latency it would cause phasing issues if it was mixed with the original signal, i’d assume that’s why it’s not included as an option.

if you wanna see how it would sound, record the dry output, and the wet output and overlay them in a daw or something and you’ll hear the phasing issues created.

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Yes, that’s the reason. An Elektron rep said this at Namm or so.

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Thanks for the responses but I’m not following the explanation about latency and phasing.

The Warble effect does have a wet/dry mix; it is the noise parameter within the Warble effect that does not pass through the wet/dry mix. (Page 28 of the manual says, “MIX Sets the mix between the clean signal and the signal affected by the effect”.)

So I would understand the above explanation if the Warble effect were missing a wet/dry mix altogether, but that’s not the case. And I can’t imagine that there’d be a latency or phasing issue from the addition of noise to a dry signal.

What exactly did this Electron rep say at Namm?

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Sorry, i misunderstood the foregoing discussion a bit. The Elektron rep said the warble effect introduces latency and so if you put the wet mix to less than 100% you’ll get some phasing. Nothing about noise.