Distortion

TRUE VINTAGE DISTORTION. The Germanium Filter is our love letter to sticking a pencil through your speaker.

The Delta Sound Labs Alpha Bundle includes the stream and fold audio effects plugins. Fold is a distortion synthesis audio effect plug-in.

Bad Tape 2 is a tape harming effect plugin from denise audio that focuses on creating extreme tape artifacts. The plugin was inspired by denise team member enrico 'nrec' tiberi's use of an akai 4000 ds mk2 reel to reel tape recorder, designed to control how to break the sound without requiring analog hardware.

Bruise, break and crush to get that lofi house-techno, industrial and idm sound, but with full control and an analog edge.

denise wanted to create an adaptable bit-crusher with complete control over its sound. On top of that, they wanted an extra layer of surprise, joy and an almost instrument-like feeling. The plugin is based on a crazy sounding bit-crushing algorithm that they added their push-pull graph technology to, which you might know from the dragon fire & god mode, with tailored FX and clever smoothing to top things off.

A Colour module inspired by the channel strip circuitry of a late-80's cassette 4-track recorder, producing solid-state dirt to trashy distortion with NOS opamps.

A diode distortion Colour module designed by audio expert Ethan Winer, offering Glue and Mojo gain modes plus symmetrical and asymmetrical clipping options for subtle warming to intense distortion.

Bad Channel is the affordable multi-FX channel strip plug-in of your nightmares. Packed with cutting distortion, wide and weird modulation, a broken comb filter, sketchy tape-machine delay, resonant filters, and built-in brick wall limiting, this plug-in is the one-stop-shop for all extreme sound enthusiasts to mangle new tones quickly.

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The Empress Distortion is an all-analog, true-bypass distortion pedal that goes from mild break-up to crunch to high-gain lead while keeping a tight low end and compressing naturally like a high-gain amp. Three selectable voicings plus gain, two bands of EQ, and output control let you dial in the sound.

An aptly named high-gain distortion pedal spanning a huge range of tones, from crisp, mid-driven 80s metal to scooped, modern down-tuned brutality. Two independent channels and a built-in noise gate make it a serious tool for a heavy rig.

The most versatile distortion pedal Empress Effects has made: an evolution of the original Heavy with new features and a compact enclosure. Three modes cover any high-gain sound from classic hard rock to searing modern metal, backed by an enhanced 3-band EQ and a footswitchable adaptive noise gate.

20% More is a slew-limiting distortion pedal built around a resonant slew limiter that acts as a steep distorted low-pass filter, featuring JFET clipping, sub and upper octaves, envelope follower, and low pass gate.

Roger That is an FM modulator/demodulator pedal inspired by radio signal degradation, producing familiar yet unexpected noise, distortion artifacts, and signal decoherence via a simplified FM mod/demod scheme.

A distortion/fuzz pedal using three hand-picked NOS transistors capable of massive, feedback-prone fuzz tones, with Heat and Distortion knobs allowing it to also produce more tempered vintage overdrive tones.

A freeware op-amp diode fuzz pedal emulation inspired by the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi from the late 1970s, delivering wide-spectrum distortion with fuzz and midrange authority. Part of the VPB virtual pedal board collection; available free with no limitations.

A dual guitar pedal emulation combining the 1966 Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face and the 1979 Ibanez Tube Screamer. Flexible routing in series or parallel with switchable germanium and silicone transistor modes, covering everything from smooth overdrive to gnarly fuzz.

HoRNet Graffio is a multiband distortion unit with three different processors for each band. Each processor has its own distortion character

The distortion pedal reinvented with both the classic and modern features that helps musicians to sculpt their distorted sound

Planer is a virtually alias-free audio clipper plugin. The versatility is guaranteed by the customisable transfer function of the clipper.

The HoRNet WahWah emulates the typical sound of the guitar pedal from the 70s funky, we emulated also the specific distortion characteristic.

ProF.E.T. is a digital emulation of a high gain distortion preamp/stomp-box for guitar. It has been developed to accurately model its real hardware counterpart, designed and built by Ignite Amps in 2018.

Amplitube live (standalone) and amplitube le (plug-in) are reduced feature versions of the amplitube guitar amp & FX modeling software.

Bring your perfect studio guitar sound onstage with the new AmpliTube X-DRIVE distortion pedal. This boutique pedal features 16 all-new overdrive and distortion effects leveraging ik's latest amplitube technologies, accompanied by an exclusive virtual x-gear version of the exact same effects.

Into the Folds Bifold is a unique dual channel wavefolder with numerous feedback and routing options along with CV control. Mix, blend and crossfade the two different folder flavours into a rich stew of unique waveforms and harmonic movement. It is the first wavefolder to offer simultaneous, independently controllable serial and parallel folder circuits.

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Traditional subtractive synthesis starts with a complex waveform and then filters it down. A wavefolder allows for the opposite: start with simple waveforms and then fold it over itself to create extremely rich and complex timbres.

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Into the Fold Traditional subtractive synthesis starts with a complex waveform and then filters it down. A wavefolder allows for the opposite: start with simple waveforms and then fold it over itself to create extremely rich and complex timbres. Animate the fold and symmetry controls with CV to add even more life and movement to the sounds.

The 3 Series Distortion is a massively versatile distortion pedal capable of medium gain crunch, heavy overdrive, distortion, and fuzz tones, with Volume, Filter, and Distort knobs plus a Gain toggle for saturated or open-and-crunchy response.

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A versatile RAT-inspired distortion pedal with LED/Silicon/Open clipping switch and a sweep knob for precise gain structure control.

A modern high-gain distortion pedal with cascaded gain stages, hard limiting circuit, class AB amplifier section, and a 3-band Baxandall EQ with sweepable midrange, designed to cover the best post-grunge distortion tones of the 1990s and 2000s.

A 9-mode analog distortion pedal that recreates 40+ years of ProCo RAT evolution, using a digital switching system to route 261 components through fully analog circuits for each legendary RAT version.

The white colorway variant of the PackRat, a 9-mode analog distortion pedal recreating 40+ years of ProCo RAT evolution with fully analog circuits for each legendary version.

Paul Gilbert signature FET-based distortion pedal with an active mid-frequency preamp designed to emulate the touch and response of a pushed tube amplifier at any volume.

The Violet is a collaborative distortion pedal from JHS and guitarist Lari Basilio featuring a unique pre-distortion mid-shaping EQ and three-band post-distortion EQ, covering overdrive through modern distortion tones.

JST Demon Fuzz is a beautifully dirty, texture-rich distortion plugin for tone design. Inspired by the designs of fuzz pedals, JST Demon Fuzz features three distinct tones that mix the smooth, harmonic sustain of a fuzz effect with the grit and depth of distortion, creating the ideal solution for adding bite or saturation to your mix.

MULTI-TOPOLOGY WAVEFOLDER 4 HP | +12: 40 mA, −12: 40 mA | JORF6 User Manual (PDF) | ModularGrid Available exclusively through our authorised dealer network . Often considered to be the opposite of filters within a modular system, wavefolders are designed to fold a signal over itself multiple times.

POWER CURVE WAVESHAPER 8 HP | +12: 65 mA, −12: 60 mA | JORW1 User Manual (PDF) | ModularGrid Available exclusively through our authorised dealer network . Warp 1 is a new breed of analogue waveshaper.

Paradox Stereo Distortion adds weight, harmonics, and density without letting harshness take over. It moves from subtle color to heavier saturation while keeping the sound focused and musical.

Bitcrush can be used to create distorting effects that sound like that of scraping analog radio, or inherently lo-fi sound sources, like old video games.

SquashIt is a powerful distortion filter, with a wide range of uses. Whether you want to completely mangle your sound to the unrecognizable, or just beef up the saturation a bit, SquashIt can be your friend.

Amplifikation Lite is a "lite" version of the forthcoming Kuassa amplifikation custom tube amplification software for real-time guitar processing.

Amplifikation One is a guitar amplifier in the form of software. This "guitar amp on your pc" captures the dynamics and characteristics of "hardware" head amplifiers and cabinets, captured by various types of microphones in multiple configurations.

Model TWK is a vintage distortion pulled straight from the heart of Kush's own Tweaker hardware compressor. The sound of Omega TWK comes from modeling the way Tweaker overdrives a pair of “supermatched transistors” feeding a long chain of dirty 70's op-amps.

Turning drums into crushed gravel, direct guitars into vintage fuzz, and the human voice into an alien specter – Pusher encourages improvisation and rewards exploration with endlessly surprising colors and overtones.

bassPath provides the most popular effects processing path for bass guitar or synth bass. It includes distortion/overdrive, limiter, speaker cabinet emulator, three band variable EQ, chorus, and delay.

Volt is a creative 3-in-1 distortion plugin. Combining analog-inspired saturation, multi-band compression, and digital bit-shaping with a dynamic feedback delay network, volt can electrify any sound. Add warmth, punch, and unpredictable resonances to any signal, from subtle tube-inspired drive to radical bit-crushing chaos.

Faithful reissue of the classic Marshall Guv'nor overdrive/distortion pedal, hand-built in Marshall's UK factory in Bletchley. Delivers a smooth overdriven texture delicately complemented by a touch of compression, with a four-band EQ (gain, bass, middle, treble) plus master level for fine-grained voicing. Housed in a steel chassis, the pedal fits a wide range of playing styles — from soft, driven tones to volume-boosting overdrive — and runs on a 9V battery or external 9V DC adapter.

Authentic reissue of Marshall's classic Shredmaster high-gain distortion pedal, hand-built at Marshall's Bletchley factory in the UK. Delivers searing solos and saturated rhythm tones via a fully adjustable tone stack with gain, bass, contour, treble, and volume controls. Housed in a robust steel chassis and finished in the familiar black and gold livery. Runs on a 9V battery or an external 9V DC power adaptor (not included).

Atk Sd1 is an emulation of the boss sd1 overdrive. It is built on top of the audio toolkit library, and implements the overdrive (oversampling).

A high-gain distortion pedal with interactive Bass and Treble tone controls that can generate amp-like distortion tones from lightly overdriven blues sounds to heavy classic rock crunch. It also works well as a distortion pedal for bass guitar.

A pedal combining independent Overdrive and Distortion circuits with a real dual-triode tube, a footswitchable Boost, a 3-band EQ, and a switchable noise gate, offering a wide range of saturated guitar tones.

A distortion plugin modeling JHS's most aggressive distortion pedal, delivering amp-like saturation, tight articulation, and a powerful EQ section.

BitFuzzer is an unholy alliance between a bitcrusher, fuzz and distortion. The bitfuzzing algorithm is complimented by a powerful filter and EQ section, helping you tame the chaos and create beautiful mayhem.

Big Stuff finest harmonic distortion-sustain plugin. Nembrini Audio Big Stuff Harmonic Distortion-Sustain is modeled on an Electro Harmonix Big Muff.

The Black Distortion plugin modeled on RAT2 distortion pedal will be your go-to distortion plugin for every recording, whether it's rock, blues, punk, or jazz.

Like the original acclaimed Eddie Kramer Edstortion Pedal by F-Pedals, the plug-in features 3 modes of classic distortion based on the legendary work of Eddie Kramer with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and The Beatles.

The rack version of the Eddie Kramer Edstortion by F-Pedals, with 3 modes of classic distortion plus independent left and right channels, mid/side encoding, stereo spread and analog channel offset.

Nembrini Audio's Nine Gates is an original preamplifier, designed for metal enthusiasts who demand precision and power in their tone. It features dual gain stages, an interactive 3-band EQ with circuit interaction, and advanced DSP edge filtering.

The Boss Led Diode Distortion plugin is modeled on the Marshall Guv'nor pedal, the first "amp in a box" pedal that replicates the tone and distortion character of famous black and gold British guitar amps.

The Boss Rack is a rack version of Nembrini Audio's Marshall Guv'nor-modeled distortion, aimed at producers and sound designers. It carries the same distortion and tone circuit plus an ultra bass boost band, wet/dry mix, phase inversion, mid/side operation and the Analog Link feature.

Obliterate is a free, unhinged distortion plugin for destroyed drums, deranged basses, and horror sound design. Use cautiously.

The bt analog valve driver adr2s delivers that authentic saturation effect found in many vintage tube amplifiers. Not only does this model provide a tube-like overdrive effect, but also high pass and low pass filters and a noise gate to enable greater control of your overdriven sound.

A four-knob distortion pedal delivering dynamic, amp-like distortion tones with added EQ control for dialing in midrange emphasis or scoop.

A handmade distortion pedal replicating the BJFE Dyna Red Distortion with volume, drive, treble and presence controls for balanced, aggressive tone.

A distortion pedal capturing the raw, high-gain distortion sound of classic British amplifiers from the late 1970s, with high gain and low noise.

A distortion pedal designed for tones reminiscent of modded 70s and 80s UK tube amps, featuring an innovative Drive control for pre-gain staging and a revoiced treble control for matching tube and solid-state amplifiers.

AmpFire is a special effect designed for metal guitar players. AmpFire is a preamplifier, distortion, power amplifier and speaker cabinet simulator in one.

Blow-fi is a shaper based distortion and signal destruction VST plugin. Blow-fi turns any audio signal into completely different results.

Go beyond typical distortion with Thermal, a cutting edge interactive distortion plugin. Easily experiment and dial in new sounds.

An asymmetrical, full-bodied overdrive/distortion pedal with a detailed, controlled gain structure, designed and hand-built in Nashville, TN.

A 10HP Eurorack multi-effect distortion module built on the Electrosmith Daisy Seed platform, chaining compression, modal filtering, overdrive, sample reduction, bitcrushing, notch filtering, and reverb. Inspired by the Volvo 240, it trades polish for raw personality and stubborn reliability.

Defining the sound of electric bass, the Ampeg B-15N has been instrumental in everything from motown cuts with james jamerson to classic stax records with donald "duck" dunn. The 30-watt, 1x15 all-tube power machine is filled with character, giving you a thick fundamental note that has been responsible for huge records from the '60s and '70s - rock, funk, soul, you name it.

Distortion plugin featuring several distortion styles, M/S and frequency control over the distortion effect, along with a user-definable dynamic preservation control function that allows you to maintain the dynamic range of any signal while applying distortion.

An exacting plugin emulation of the ProCo RAT 2 distortion pedal. Three knobs and a switch deliver the heady distortion that helped shape iconic sounds of some of the greatest bands.

An exacting plugin emulation of the Boss DS-1 distortion pedal. Beloved for its rich, liquid tone and simple operation, famously used on Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and by artists from Kurt Cobain to Steve Vai.

An exacting plugin emulation of the classic Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer, one of the most popular overdrive pedals ever made. Features light-to-medium overdrive with electronic field-effect bypass switching.

Plugin emulation of the Boss MT-2 metal distortion pedal. Features an onboard EQ with precise control and over-the-top distortion, beloved for its versatility as a standard guitar stomp pedal.

An exacting plugin emulation of the Boss SD-1 overdrive pedal. Delivers warm, smooth tube amplifier-like distortion and overdrive that responds authentically to picking technique with asymmetric overdrive circuitry.

Advanced distortion plugin for deep waveform manipulation and sound design. A unique tool for tinkering with and transforming sounds beyond conventional distortion.

Versatile distortion toolkit with ten unique clipping algorithms. A highly versatile wave-shaping tool in a compact package.

In rock music, crunch and gain transformed the electric guitar from a support to a lead instrument, bringing it from the back of the stage to the front. Positive Grid's groundbreaking component emulation technology allows bias distortion to recreate the sound of almost any existing gain pedal, while providing the ability to create entirely new sounds and textures.

Tube drive and distortion with a single triode mode and single filter control.

The RFZ-1 is Recovery's take on the original Vox Distortion Booster, known for classic garage and psych tones. It stays tight and crunchy at any drive setting, delivering a warm, compressed, fuzzed-out tone.

Big hurk is the first release in Reign Design's "emuration" line. Emuration is what they call comparative emulation based on impulse responses.

Audio Impurities - Vintage Edition adds hiss and noise from old vintage studio hardware.

Better Run is a high gain overdrive plug-in for the electric guitar. It features 3 gain modes and an optional midrange boosting circuit.

The 100 Grit is a Eurorack module combining distortion, a VCA, and a low pass filter with 8 brass touchpoints. It can operate as a vintage-voiced VCA and filter or as a screaming distortion and noise effect.

BTFLD (Bit Fold) is a distortion, wavefolder, and four-bit asynchronous analog to digital converter module. It can act as a distortion or wavefolder effect at audio rate, or generate rhythms and gates from envelope or LFO inputs.

The Interstellar Radio is a destructive transmission line module that modulates and demodulates a signal using different clock references, producing extreme distortion and frequency modulation of complex and noisy timbres. It functions as an effect or as a complex non-v/oct oscillator.

Diamondhead is a Multistage Distortion + Boost pedal that captures the tone and feel of a hot-rodded tube amp being pushed by a drive or boost pedal – the guitar sound that defined classic 70s and 80s Metal and Hard Rock.

The Palladium Gain Stage is a high gain preamp and distortion effects pedal that captures the authentic feel and responsiveness of a high gain tube amp in a compact and tweakable stompbox. Note: This product has been discontinued.

BitTest is a little bitcrusher plug-in. It converts your data to 8 bits, then you can turn the bits off (the top row) or invert them (the bottom row) individually.

Add warm, analog character to your drums, basses, and 808s. From subtle warmth to slamming saturation, this free plugin delivers.

Acoustic Feedback is a realistic simulation of guitar feedback. After years of hard work spent on perfecting every detail of vintage amp room, the developers at Softube felt obliged to create what they felt was the missing link between a real amp and an amp plug-in.

Bad Speaker makes it easy to add spice to your productions with three distinctive speaker flavors. Play with the portable radio, cassette deck, and hi-fi speaker modes. Experiment with various amounts of gritty distortion with the simple drive control.

Bass Amp Room was designed to handle all your bass amp needs, from dirty rock to modern clean, keeping two equally important goals in mind.

A wavefolder that shapes timbre by manipulating the harmonic spectrum, ranging from subtle harmonics to extreme folding effects.

Bad Cable is an audiounit which attempts to simulate a bad audio cable. The result is a form of waveform distortion.

Distortion plugin VST VST3 Audio Unit.

Get down and dirty with the AfterShock Bass Distortion. The Aftershock spans the gamut of low-end crunch, from smooth and natural overdrive to full-on fuzz attack.

At the Ultrawave's core is a dynamic and multi-dimensional sound sculpting approach known as multiband processing. Explore its ground-shaking varieties of overdrive and tremolo.

Explore the advanced potential of multiband processing. The Ultrawave offers an array of thick and rich distortion and tremolo effects with unique overtones and dynamic interplay.

Add grit to any sound sc BitCrusher is a free, fully-featured BitCrusher plugin.

Admiral is an overdrive effect featuring a new "quadrature overdrive algorithm" that is designed to give more power and strength

Bad Buss Mojo allows you to dial in specific tweaks to a virtual mix buss amplifier. Is the + rail a little low? Dial it in. Psu not quite as stiff as it could be? Dial in a bit of knee in the bend. Old-school transistors or even tubes? Dial in some nonlinear modulation.

A Eurorack module providing two stages of vacuum tube distortion and waveshaping with switchable single or dual gain stages, harmonic content control, and CV control over saturation.

Bde is an earth shattering distortion plugin featuring several distortion styles, complimentary effects, m/s and frequency control over the distortion effect, along with the worlds first user definable dynamic preservation control function, allowing you to maintain the dynamic range of any signal while still applying a distortion effect.

Anaesthesia Distortion: distortion effect with a shapeable filter.

Tube-Like Overdrive with Extremely Responsive and Expressive Feel

Phenomenal Distortion Pedal with Extreme Dynamic Range, Two-Band EQ and Voicing Switch

Skull-Pounding Metal Distortion Pedal with 2-Knob Interface for Insane Gain

Ultra-Thick, High Gain Distortion with Super Tight Response

Organic Tube-Like Distortion with Tight Bottom-End and Natural Sag

Classic High Gain Distortion Pedal with Fat Mids, Treble Filter Control and 3 Clipping Modes

The TC Electronic MAHI DRIVE is part of TC's mini pedal series — compact format, tour-grade construction, focused on doing one job exceptionally well. A distortion/overdrive pedal designed to fit the tightest pedalboard slots. True-bypass switching keeps your dry signal pristine when the pedal is off.

Badass multi-effects distortion plug-in, give to your sounds a little bad grain or destroy them completely with the help of a sequencer, a Massive modulation system and twelve effects available simultaneously, including two distortions, pre and post filters, a lo-fi resampler, a bit degrader, a pitch-shifter, a frequency cutter, a frequency booster, a ring modulator, a limiter and a compressor.

A-110 is a tube amp simulator with a built-in compressor, 3-band EQ, low-pass filter, a secondary tube channel layer (with 4 amp 'models')

Emulation of a famous "rodent" guitar distortion pedal, modeled against the unit's schematic and tuned against clips of the real hardware for improved accuracy.

Explore micromanaged bitcrushing from an iconic multi‑effector.

Boogex is a free guitar amplifier plug-in with a variety of sound shaping features for professional music production applications.

Heat 2 is a twin distortion and saturation plugin that blends any two of ten modelled distortion types, each with its own drive setting and high and low pass filtering. It is a refreshed version of the original Heat, with a new interface and more accurate frequency monitoring.

Make Me Scream is a two-stage saturation and distortion plugin that pairs an adjustable preamp tube with a distortion module offering four distortion types and four timbre modes. A signal follower shapes the distortion envelope in line with the transients of the source material.

Screamo is a distortion plugin that pairs two resonant shelving filters with a drive stage, both driven by a built in tempo synced waveform shaper. The results range from a talk box style effect to rhythmic overdrive.

Eras is a no apologies, high-gain distortion that’s ready to chug, shred, and palm mute with tight response and multiple clipping options. Use the Blend knob at max for a full distortion onslaught or roll back the Blend knob to creatively stack and mix other dirt pedals placed in front of Eras.

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For the Fundamental Series, we challenged ourselves to design a set of pedals with the tonal integrity that’s required to live on a professional’s pedalboard, but with simplified controls friendly enough for even the newest effect pedal users.

The Iron Horse is our take on a classic distortion circuit that's thick, punchy, riffy, and rowdy.

We give you the two most quintessential effects that yield unruly amounts of power and influence to an instrumentalist: reverb and distortion. They have been harnessed and woven together for an eternity of ethereal power with The Melee: Wall of Noise.

The go-to plugin for wild, deranged, creative distortion with 10 original distortion shapes, advanced feedback, dynamics and M/S options for versatile experimentation, plus the Go Berzerk button for randomized distortion madness.

From Distortion, Doubler and Delay to Flanger, Phaser, Fuzz and more, GTR3 Stomps give you everything you need to customize your tone.

Creative distortion and saturation plugin for adding aggression, grit, and character to any audio source.

The Manny Marroquin Distortion plugin. Whether you like it crunchy-style or down-and-dirty, a little bit of distortion on vocals, Rhodes, Wurlis, etc. can really add a lot of attitude and edge.

3 distortion plugins based on musicians’ all-time favorites. From classic fat round overdrive to freaked-out fuzz, this oversaturated color palette gives you quick access to the greatest distorted sounds you know and love.

From light overdrive to full-on distortion, OneKnob Driver is not just for guitars; it sounds great as an effect for vocals, piano, synths, drums, bass and more.

This is a full DIY kit for a passive diode fuzz Eurorack module with switches for changing which diodes are included in the circuit. It includes the PCB, front panel, all components and a build guide.