I’ve been finding Shades really useful, and have been using it a lot. I used to use CV Tools for this purpose, and that is still the daddy of them all in my opinion as it is SO flexible and adds a useful Slew Limiter into the bargain. Obviously it’s a bit bigger though..
Personally I find LEDs on such devices really useful, and that is what led (no pun intended!) me to Shades as a smaller CV Tools replacement
Still keeping hold of CV Tools though, as my setup is constantly evolving and it may well work its way back into the rig at some point.
It also does a really nice job at saturating oscs when driven hard, and you can daisy-chain an osc from one channel into the next to achieve even more drive. wasn’t something I expected when I bought it, but has been pretty cool. Its wide gain range does make it a little bit hard to set levels on though, as its really clean portion - when used for audio - is between 12 o’clock and about 2 o’clock.
surprised it doesn’t get more love really...
They’re all solid performers though, and everyone should have at least one of them in their rig.
Another thing to consider is Manhattan Analog’s CVP - that gives you one channel of attenuvertion, along with a simultaneous offset (so, almost equivalent to 2 channels of TRIATT/ Shades/ CV Tools)....along with a really accurate slew limiter that doesn’t affect tuning of connected oscs, unlike some slew limiters.
