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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The Rave Generation Sonic Surge is a dynamic saturation plugin, ideal for enhancing the loudness and tone of any sound without losing punch. The Rave Generation Sonic Surge is built for producers and engineers who need versatile saturation, tone shaping, and precise loudness control in their mixes and masters. It combines tape-inspired saturation with dynamic response, letting you move from subtle enhancement to bold character without losing signal integrity. The dual-band drive system allows independent shaping of lows and highs, while the adjustable crossover ensures the processing fits the source perfectly. A dynamic tone curve offers further control by adjusting how the plugin reacts to quieter or louder parts of your track. Smart Clip functionality protects your output, providing both soft and hard clipping options to keep levels clean and punchy. With a streamlined, resizable interface and workflow-friendly tools, Sonic Surge balances vintage-style warmth with modern flexibility, making it a practical choice for detailed harmonic shaping, mixing presence, or transparent mastering tasks.
Product Ref: 338030
The dual-band design offers control of the high and low frequency saturation independently, giving you the flexibility to treat low and high frequencies separately. This means you can add warmth and saturation to bass-heavy material without affecting clarity in the top end, or push high frequencies for brightness while keeping the low end tight. The adjustable crossover, ranging from 60 Hz to 8000 Hz, ensures the split between these bands works precisely with the material at hand. This approach provides more refined control than a single-band saturator, letting you balance punch and definition with ease.
Sonic Surge’s Harmonic Drive emulates the tonal character of analogue tape, introducing harmonic content that adds richness and weight to your audio. Whether applied subtly to lift dull tracks or driven harder for a bold vintage effect, this saturation enhances presence without introducing harshness. By working dynamically rather than statically, the effect adapts to the signal in real time, ensuring a natural response. The result is added harmonic complexity that can thicken, smooth, or colour your sound in ways that suit both modern and classic production styles.
The tone curve parameter acts as a dynamic shaper, letting you decide whether to emphasise louder peaks or bring out quieter details in your track. This level of control helps you manage presence in mixes—boosting impactful sections or revealing subtle textures otherwise buried in the signal. By adjusting dynamic depth, you can tailor how reactive the plugin is to your audio, striking a balance between subtle enhancement and more noticeable shaping. This makes it useful not just for creative processing, but also for detailed refinement in mastering situations.
Smart Clip 0dB offers built-in protection against unwanted distortion while allowing you to push levels with confidence. With both soft and hard clipping options available, you can decide whether you want a smoother edge or a more defined cut to your transients. This feature is especially valuable during mastering or loudness-focused tasks, where maintaining punch and detail is just as important as avoiding digital overs. Combined with the plugin’s intelligent gain handling, Smart Clip ensures you can increase impact and presence while keeping output consistent and clean.
