# fix\(distortion\): start new instances at an audible drive · flambo/semantifx

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Tree: 3296520b066ee54e0588ffa1f84f8cdb4ec27498

Author: flamboh

Committer: flamboh

## Message

```
fix(distortion): start new instances at an audible drive

Drive below ~20 dB is nearly linear, so an optimizer starting at 0 dB sat
on a flat gradient and never engaged distortion, even for "crunchy and
aggressive". Default drive 24 dB and mix 0.5; starting at 30 dB the same
prompt reached drive 47 dB and a lower CLAP loss (0.69 vs 0.74).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

```

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