458 Results for "distortion"

Jef’s Top 3 Bits of Guitar Gear and Gadgets at NAMM 2018

Our favourite three cool, exciting new guitar related products for 2018 all revealed at this year's Winter NAMM Show, with gear by Fender, Line 6 and Game Changer Audio.

NAMM 2018: Rainger FX Reverb X – All sorts of wrong in a box

Rainger FX has been creating madcap effects pedals again, the new Reverb-X and Igor are all about what happens when you do something wrong, but it sounds so right!

NAMM 2018: Suhr Mini Riot distortion pedal announced

The ever-popular Suhr Riot distortion pedal has been given a makeover for 2018 and lost a fair bit of size, but hopefully none of its riotous drive tones

NAMM 2018: Fender announces new effects pedal range for 2018

Fender has decided to launch a new all original effects pedal series, with brand new designs featuring a cool new magnetically-latched battery door system and rugged aluminium enclosures.

NAMM 2018: Plasma Pedal – High Voltage Distortion unleashed

Game Changer Audio has harnessed insanity with their new Plasma Pedal. A plasma-based distortion pedal you say? Sign me up for some of this crazy lightning based dirt box goodness!

NAMM 2018: Keeley presents Aria two-channel Compressor/Overdrive/Distortion

Robert Keeley is launching a new compressor/overdrive pedal at this year's NAMM Show, and let's face it, he knows a thing or two about compressors and drive tones.

NAMM 2018: Line 6 HX Effects processor leaked

Line 6 could be gearing up to present HX Effects based on the Helix system's effects processor. This highly anticipated new product has been setting guitar forums alight for months and now it has been leaked!

ProCo Rat Tail Distortion: A RAT pedal in your guitar cable

That classic little black distortion pedal has now been squeezed into a single guitar cable, making it the most compact rodent-themed dirt box on the market! And then there's the question of: "WHY?!?"

Klevgrand Grand Finale: A sleek and (very) dark new finalizer mastering plug-in

Grand Finale is a new audio finalizer processing plug-in. And it's dark. Yet also sleek and functional. But has Klevgrand got the balance right between complex processing and a simplified workflow?

Acustica Audio Crimson plug-in blends analog distortion and compression

Acustica Audio has released an ambitious new compression and distortion plug-in to its Aqua series, saying that Crimson can do both "precise" and "colourful". We take a first look.

Choose from 5 analogue circuits in Shattered Glass Audio’s Inferno plug-in

Inferno is a simulator of five distortion and saturation circuits meant for adding character, color, and warmth to audio. Each circuit is based on an actual hardware unit, its maker says.

Warm up your audio with Overloud’s Sculptube tube distortion and saturation plug-in

Sculptube can be used for "warming up" audio with subtle distortion and coloration, overdriving the input for typical valve distortion, and as an exciter which enhances top frequencies with natural harmonics...

HyVibe Audio Smart Acoustic Guitar: A brave new world for acoustic instruments?

Blending old and new technologies, will this Smart Acoustic Guitar annoy purists or entice new players to the acoustic guitar? Either way, brave new approaches are being used here.

Tallin 1956 Dual Discrete Core VC Amp: it’s a posh VCA

From the "Working Class Electronics" of Poland's XAOC comes an exquisite dual discrete VCA with overdrive. Tallin 1956 is uncommonly good and should probably be your next VCA (we always need more).

TC Electronics Analog Armada: A fleet of budget guitar effect pedals

More wallet-friendly effects pedals from the Danish effects pedal company, that incidentally is now owned by Behringer. Have we seen these before somewhere?

Demon 80, a cheap multi-band compressor plug-in with an analogue soul

Developed for Windows, the Demon 80 effect plug-in by Synthblitz Audio is a three-band compressor with a preamp and limiter thrown in. And at this modest price, its "analogue" sonics might be worth a punt...

000 to present 3 new Eurorack modules at We Are Robots festival

Module makers 000 are premiering their Ykinmkato Distortion Lab, EQ69 British EQ and 8ct8 8 channel mixer Eurorack modules at the We Are Robots festival. They'll also show you how to build them.

Mercuriall ReAxis gives you Mesa/Boogie TriAxis preamp sounds in the box

Mercuriall Audio introduced an interesting take on modeling the Mesa/Boogie sound with ReAxis - an emulation of the Triaxis rack preamp that's based on classic Mark series circuits...

New guitar pedals this week by Mooer, Mythos and Rougarou

This week's pedals include budget octave pedals and two unique boutique offerings from the USA including two monstrously dirty pedals inspired by mythical beasts.

AudioThing Wave Box: no distortion gets more brutal than waveshaping!

Wave Box looks like a simulated piece of 70s power plant test equipment, but it's actually a dynamic dual waveshaper capable of maximum wave-destroying fun! Its two shapers can also be modulated by a pair of ...

Upcoming: Wavesfactory Spectre is 7 saturators in 1 beautiful monster plug-in

Pretty colors and 7 types of saturation! Does that sound good? It's the foundation of Spectre, a multi-band enhancer plug-in from the fine minds at Wavesfactory. Currently in development, Spectre has 5 EQ ...

Unfiltered Audio SpecOps: 36 shades of spectral audio glitching mayhem

SpecOps is a swiss-knife of an audio destructor which features a blend of no less than 36 different spectral effects for total glitch mayhem. It slices audio into grains and lets you freely apply spectral ...

Boss collaborate with JHS on Angry Driver JB-2 overdrive pedal

When two pedal companies work together, anything can happen. But will this new collaboration be the start of something special? Will it herald collaborations between Boss and other pedal makers?

Rob Papen RP-VERB 2 is in the air tonight!

Rob Papen has made RP-VERB 2 available, and in addition to a range of enhancements, we're also pretty sure any Phil Collins fans out there have plenty of incentive to update...