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Need help with distortion and overdrive

Archive · 2012 3 old posts

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djbrynte ·

Any ideas how i can build this great? So it sounds nice? Because now my distortion and overdrive sound the same and it doesent sound like distortion or overdrive realy.

trogluddite ·

For something a little 'smoother' and 'organic' sounding, search for 'tanh'. That's just a maths function - but you don't need to understand the maths to use the code examples. It's just a way of 'curving' the distortion at it gets close to clipping, which is pretty good for making it less harsh sounding.

djbrynte ·

Can you pls show me an example how to set it up?

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