After some serious filtering, from time to time I need some serious amplification to recover some amplitude. I was surprised not to find a very powerful amplifier, something with several decades of dBs. The most powerful I could find is the VCAmp from Bogaudio, which provides +12dB, so I use several of them in series.
I know there are other solutions (multiply a signal and a knob’s CV in Sonus Dept’s Paramath module, but it’s not really intuitive, or use the Formula from Frank Buss but it doesn’t go beyond -5V/+5V).
A simple, big slider, with a log scale labelled in dBs going from, 0dB to, say, +60dB would be very cool. Does it exist yet or is there anyone willing to develop such a beastie?
As far as I know, I haven’t seen such module but you can easily make serious amplification with nysthi’s ConstAddMult: feed your signal in A, set B on the LED display (up to 100) and get amplified output AxB
Not really, it gets clamped / hard clipped at 0dB. The signal will never really go over 0dB, a signal which has low volume i.e. -96dB would be increased to -48dB.
You could need it after a VCF in lowpass mode with a very, very low cutoff frequency - quite useful to have random, slow and continuous signal from white noise.
Edit: I forgot Nysthi’s ConstAddMult, which does the job without any additional module, so this is the real winner! (attached comparison patch edited as well).
