Category: Distortion

Distortion (music)

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Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a “fuzzy”, “growling”, or “gritty” tone. Distortion is most commonly used with the electric guitar, but may also be used with other electric instruments such as electric bass, electric piano, and Hammond organ. Guitarists playing electric blues originally obtained an overdriven sound by turning up their vacuum tube-powered guitar amplifiers to high volumes, which caused the signal to distort. While overdriven tube amps are still used to obtain overdrive, especially in genres like blues and rockabilly, a number of other ways to produce distortion have been developed since the 1960s, such as distortion effect pedals. The growling tone of a distorted electric guitar is a key part of many genres, including blues and many rock music genres, notably hard rock, punk rock, hardcore punk, acid rock, and heavy metal music, while the use of distorted bass has been essential in a genre of hip hop music and alternative hip hop known as “SoundCloud rap”.

Big Bad Tube

Big Bad Tube Tube drive and distortion with a single triode mode and single filter control.

Robot Vacuum Cleaner

Effect

Robot Vacuum Cleaner Inspired by this video by Dan Worrall: {See video at top of page} TLDW: Dan Worrall uses parallel bandpass filters to fatten…

Slew Over

Limiter

Slew Over A simple slew limiter with oversampling. Parameters: Slew: The slew rate in pitch/hz. This is just an approximation.Filter Type: LP or HPGain Out:…

Clamp

Clamp A very simple hard clip with 4x oversampling.

FMD DISTORTION

FMD DISTORTION FMD is a distortion plugin that adds rich FM harmonics with a single knob. Combined with a soft clipper, you can quickly transform…

Wolf Shaper

Wolf Shaper Wolf Shaper is a free VST, LV2 and CLAP distortion plugin. It lets you create your own waveshaping functions using a spline-based graph…

SIBERIAN HAMSTER DISTORTION PEDAL

SIBERIAN HAMSTER DISTORTION PEDAL Biting distortion from the frozen wastelands at the end of the earth. Any similarities to other rodent themed distortion pedals are…

InstaVibe

Effect

InstaVibe InstaVibe includes four effect sections: Saturation EQ Noise Modulation InstaVibe also features Undo, Redo, A/B and 15 presets If you like and use InstaVibe,…

BIG STUFF HARMONIC DISTORTION

BIG STUFF HARMONIC DISTORTION Nembrini Audio Big Stuff Harmonic Distortion-Sustain is modeled on a Electro Harmonix Big Muff* The Big Stuff will give you a sweet violin-like sustaining sound. It’s the…

Fuzzy

Fuzzy versatile guitar fuzz distortion plugin with some extra features. Fuzzy does not model any real hardware but it is capable of wide spectrum of…