distortion Archives

Pandora: Vactrol bandpass filter with MOSFET distortion

22 Nov in Synths

Opening Pandora's box, we find vactrol-based bandpass filtering and MOSFET transistor distortion can be pushed into all sorts of fascinating places.

The best budget effects pedals for electronic music production

28 Oct in Studio, Synths

Guitar pedals on synths? Yes friends, we're checking out some of the best budget effects pedals for your electronic music production setup.

First Look: Warm Audio Warmdrive and Centavo Overdrive Clones

First Look: Warm Audio Warmdrive and Centavo Overdrive Pedals

25 Oct in Guitar

First Look! We take the Warm Audio Warmdrive and Centavo overdrive pedals for a spin. How do they compare against the prized originals?

Catalinbread Elements Series: One-knob wonders?

07 Oct in Guitar

Catalinbread Elements Series consists of three single-knob design pedals and launches with fuzz, distortion and overdrive circuits

Boss DS-1W: The original 1978 distortion gets a tone makeover

06 Oct in Guitar

The new Boss DS-1w Waza Craft is an update to the original 1978 distortion pedal. But is the extra charge worth it for the extra mode?

Heavyocity Fury is a crazy modulated distortion playground

05 Oct in Studio

Heavyocity Fury is a distortion playground that lets you go berzerk with 29 different overdrive and clipping modules and plenty of modulation.

Orange Vintage Pedals reissued with modern tweaks

16 Sep in Guitar

Orange Vintage Pedals reissues the sustain, distortion and Phaser. Recreating the classic stompboxes, but with modern upgrades and performance

iZotope Trash 2 deal: buy Trash 2+Expansions for $13 until October 20

11 Sep in Deals, Studio

The iZotope Trash 2 deal has the famous distortion plug-in (+Expansions) on sale for USD 13 at Plugin Boutique until October 20, 2022!

Sovage Engineering launches a range of rule-defying Eurorack modules

05 Sep in Synths

"if it sounds normal, something is wrong!" Says Sovage Engineering, who has unleashed six new modules with mangling, warping, convoluting and more.

Best free plug-ins this week: RO-GOLD, TugGlicento, TRAX

04 Sep in Studio

This week's collection of free plug-ins brings you some tasty plate reverbs, sequenced multi-effects, and an easy-to-use transient designer.

LEAK: MXR Duke Of Tone a collaboration with Analogman- It’s official!

02 Sep in Guitar

MXR Custom Shop Duke of Tone has been leaked accidentally by a US dealer. Looks to be a collaboration with Analogman based on their famous overdrive

Arturia Dist Coldfire review – the French distortion factory plug-in

30 Aug in Studio

Arturia Dist Coldfire is the coolest distortion plug-in I've seen in a while. Cool is literal, because it's Coldfire, get it?

Output Movement is on sale for EUR 49 for a limited time

28 Aug in Deals, Studio

Output Movement with its lively approach to multi-effects is now on sale for just EUR 49. I don't remember it ever being cheaper than that.

Get IK Multimedia MixBox with over 70 effects at 75% off!

19 Aug in Deals, Studio

MixBox is now on sale for EUR 89, down from EUR 357 - that's 75% off and the discount applies until August 31, 2022.

Soundevice Digital TrapTune: Trap-ify your vocals for 19 bucks!

17 Aug in Studio

TrapTune by Soundevice Digital offers everything you need for authentic trap vocals: Pitch correction, formant shifting, and more.

Best free plug-ins this week: Luxon, DeeMute, Goblyn

07 Aug in Studio

This week’s collection of free plug-ins features the Luxon VA synth, MIDI-controlled muting and ducking with DeeMute, and Goblyn, a “nasty" amp sim.

Best free plug-ins this week: Pneuma, Wave Manuel, Vibe Mechanic

31 Jul in Studio

This week’s roundup of the best free plug-ins brings you two very different synths and some tasty lo-fi vibes: Pneuma, Wave Manuel, and Vibe Mechanic.

Best free plug-ins this week: Explorer, Ambience Enhancer Lite and Quantize

10 Jul in Studio

This week’s roundup of free plug-ins includes a polyphonic synth, an ambience tool, and a lo-fi effect: Explorer, Ambience Enhancer Lite, and Quantize.