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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”.
Jerryuhoo Fire

Wings Music – Fire

Fire Fire is a multiband distortion / downsampler plugin. Drive: has several distortion functions. There are two buttons “L” and “S” related to drive knob, and each…

Greed Smasher 3

Greed Smasher

Greed Smasher Greed Smasher is based on the Mesa/Boogie Grid Slammer overdrive guitar pedal. The modeled circuit is based on a Mesa/Boogie Grid Slammer Overdrive. Low…

THE KLONE

THE KLONE

About Fazertone was founded in 2020 by Victor Lewis. Merging a fascination with vintage equipment and a love for state of the art DSP algorithms,…

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Temper

Creative Intent – Temper Temper is a modern digital distortion plugin featuring a rich saturation stage and a unique phase distortion. Use the variable saturation curve to…

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Pendulate

Unleash Chaos Introducing Pendulate, chaotic monosynth by Newfangled Audio. Pendulate uses a brand new oscillator design to produce sounds different from any other synth. It…

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Auto-Tune Evo

Auto-Tune is available as a plug-in for digital audio workstations used in a studio setting and as a stand-alone, rack-mounted unit for live performance processing. The processor slightly shifts pitches to the…

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Red Shift

Red Shift allows you to replace the tone of your guitars pickup with a huge list of different alternatives and really provides you the versatility you…

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Ear Wring

Ear Wring is a ring modulator controlled by three phase distortion oscillators and one LFO. Depending on the pitch, this can go from a gently oscillating…

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Soul Force v.1.0

A fairly standard waveshaping distortion plugin, made more interesting through the use of feedback to control the shaping. Can get pretty loud and obnoxious. The…

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Roktion 808

Roktion 808 is an all purpose stereo distortion unit capable of “subtle mellow overdrive to full face peeling distortion”. It utilizes 3 gain stages of which…