Neve 1073 knockoff (but with a Carnhill tranny) - I built this years ago and it still gets a lot of use. '69 Twin and '72 Bassman - don’t get a lot of love these days, but nothing compares to micing these up and running delayed piano parts through them at high volume. Double duty as a feedback/no input mixer. Lots of fun, kind of thin and forward sounding, does mild breakup well.ĭwarfcraft Great Destroyer - when nothing but completely fucked up will do.īehringer UB802 (circa 1995) - this thing sounds amaz-a-balls when pushed. MXR Distortion+ - a hold over from playing guitar. Have built a ton of clones and thrown different op amps and pots in them for slightly different feels. ProCo RAT - classic, sounds good on everything. Hardware (in no particular order) - love me some outboard through pedals and back again Very versatile.īunch of other plugs that don’t get a ton of use. As good on other things as it is on guitar. I tend to use this more on percussive elements, I think, but I can’t say why.Īmplitube - or whatever amp sim tickles your funny bits. Being able to blend really distinct and shapeable distortions is way fun.ĭ16 Devastor - I should probably use this more it sounds great. So fucking over the top in cool and interesting ways. Ohmicide - if Decapitator does sonic destruction, this does sonic retardation. Saturn - love love love being able to saturate/distort distinct bands. Everything from an undetectable sheen to vroom vroom drive to sonic destruction. Mixing it is tricky for me cause im trying to make things audible against a wall of sound but to overcome this I filter certain frequencies in both the dry and wet signals and combine both together…ĭecap - because it’s just so versatile. I use wave shaper because I dont have things like a tube amp, or just regular amps or other types of gear at my disposalĪnd normally I just use distortion to create gritty baselines and shoegaze type pads and filter it to taste so that its audible and doesnt drown out the other elements in my tracks I’ve only once automated the wave shaper plug basically I switched between two instances of the plug with each having different saturation curves by playing/automating with the mix level…but I’ve never tried applying the switch of distortion with the envelope controller using it to modulate the mix level or doing the switch in conjunction with frequency band splitting… At very low input levels, the triode mode in Ozone actually “absorbs” transients and really high frequencies, so you can use it as a combination of compressor and shelving EQ if you use it just right.įor certain sounds I slam it through a compressor and add distortion In order to get feedback noises…Īnd for industrial drums ill just eq, compression, eq, envelope, eq, distortion,eq, etc…I just keep repeating the distortion eq compression volume/filter envelope effects chain in no particular order till i get the sound i want… I’ve said this before elsewhere, but I also make extensive use of distortion in mastering to give disparate tracks similar color and to help me make more subtle moves than I can do in EQ. I strap a nice analog emulation of a compressor over my drum bus and call that good, with less nice analog emulations of compressors on the individual drum channels as needed to control any really bad peaking. Too much CPU to do each channel individually and the benefits are so mimimal on short, percussive sounds IMO. Then if I do anything for effect (like overtly obvious distortion), that can either be dialled in at the start of the chain by just cranking that first distortion way up, or by adding it later in the chain. I have a couple favorites there, but the biggest one is Decapitator.
By doing it before you do the EQ and everything else, it can really feel like a part of the sound. I also usually use something at the start of my FX chain to just add color and spice up the sound a bit. I use it when I’m using the stock Image Line plugins in FL Studio because those plugins tend to be a bit dry for my taste (in which Diva is the ultimate softsynth) and waveshaper is really good at dialing in a precise, controlled amount of distortion to just liven things up a bit. The waveshaper is really good once you know how the transfer function graph works.
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