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Stereo Distortion Built From Scratch

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What it does

Stereo Distortion Built From Scratch

Illustrates how to build a distortion by first overdriving the signal with the "Large Gain" block, then clipping this overdriven signal (via the "Audio Clipper" block) to produce an amplitude smaller than one.

Try experimenting with overdrive gain and clip threshold settings to explore the behaviour of the distortion.

Effects used

4 blocks 3 connections
In WaveWarp, 1998

How the original documented it

Stereo Distortion Built From Scratch Illustrates how to build a distortion by first overdriving the signal with the "Large Gain" block, then clipping this overdriven signal (via the "Audio Clipper" block) to produce an amplitude smaller than one. Try experimenting with overdrive gain and clip threshold settings to explore the behaviour of the distortion.

Components used (1998)

Audio ClipperOutput Stereo WAVE DriverLarge gainInput WAV file