Looking For Some Distortion

[casio hardcore]

Whatsup KvR! Does anyone have any suggestions on a distortion type of VST plugin? I mainly want it for drums to add some noise and beef to the mix. Free would be great but I dont mind shelling out a few bucks if necessary. Thanks in advance.

[rpc9943]

dog, bj overdrive. dog, get tubebooster. dog, get tubebaby.
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RONNYC

[shamann]

Two good places to start for distortion are Noizware's Tri-dirt and Exponent's Delta Force. Both are multiband, and have sevral distortion types.

I have over 80 distortion effects sitting in my VST folder, all free, so the list could go on for a while. Try those two, report back what you think.

[rpc9943]

hey man i'd like to know what those 80 free ones are as well.

i just recorded this last night www.myspace.com/thekujats

id like to get more distortion fx

RoNC

[casio hardcore]

Oooh...I really like Tri-Dirt as it throws a lot of beef and punch into my drums. Delta Force was...eh. I liked the GUI but I wasnt overly impressed with the sound. Many thanks on the suggestions shamann.

[rpc9943]

i dont get tri dirt... it feels like somethings missing when i use it. how did you get a good sound with it, casio?

RoNC

[shamann]

OK. This includes amp simps, mostly because I tend to use them as distortion effects. There's only 75 as it turns out, but I have a few I've made in Synthedit not included. Believe it or not, this doesn't include everything I've ever come across, excludes a lot of old stuff like mda, bojo, sc, etc.

Here you go:

A0 Digital Audio cap
Antti Saro
Audio Damage Fuzz+
Betabugs Audio BugDrive
Betabugs Audio Chorrosive
BetaBugs Audio FeedBug
BetaBugs Audio Lavaland
Betabugs FloFi
Big Tick NastyShaper
Bram Cyanide
Camel Audio CamelPhatFree
Chaotikmind Demonwave
Chaotikmind Quantik Noreality
Chaotikmind Quantik Shaper
Chaotikmind Quantik Xterminator
Christian Budde OpAmp
Christian Budde Toadstunnel
CMT Bitcrusher
CMT Da Saturator
ConcreteFX LowBit
ConcreteFX QAmp
ConcreteFX SubOct
Devine Machine Bitmodder
Digitalfishphones THD
E-Phonic LOFI
Exponent Delta Force
Fruity Blood Overdrive
GuruPlugs Preamp
GuruPlugs Unmatched
GVST GClip
Helium Cortex
Helium Modtortion
HNM Distortion
Ioplong flotser
ISM Spice
Jonas Norberg Firegain
Jonas Norberg Floatcrusher
Jonas Norberg PWMDrive
Muon Mdrive
NDC Distortionator
NDzeit Tubebaby
Nick Whitehurst Mymag
Noisware TriDirt
Nusofting Volcanica
Palancar Ozone
Phasic DegradeFX
Phasic MultiShaper
Phasic PHInterfere
Polarity Tubester 1
Polarity Tubester 2
Rocksonics Saturator
SH-1 FUZZ
Silverspike RubyTube
SimulAnalog Boss DS-1
SimulAnalog Boss SD-1
SimulAnalog Fender Twin 1969
SimulAnalog Marshall JCM900
SimulAnalog Tube Screamer
slim slow slider compact distortion
Soundhack +decimate
TbT GreaseTube
TbT PreAmp
TbT Sample Reducer
TbT TubeLimit
Tektonik TK-3BandDisto
Tektonik TK-Disto
Trashkonzept Trasher
UK Music Nonlin
Vellocet VLogicDistortion
Virtual Creations 3LiT3 Reducer
Voxengo Boogex
Voxengo Powershaper
Voxengo Tube Amp
Wurr Audio Little Green Amp
Wurr Audio Tube Booster

If you see something in the list that you can't find via Google, please don't PM for it. I have a habit of deleting readme files, so I have no idea if passing it along would be against copyright yada, and have no interest in finding out.

Cheers,
Steve

[rpc9943]

i wont pm its cool. thank you so much

RONC

[farlukar]

Cyanide2 is nice too

[shamann]

i wont pm its cool. thank you so much

RONC

Sorry if that sounded dickheadish, wasn't specifically aimed at you, Ron, just in general. Happens a lot if you mention old freeware.

I should add Tiny God's Tiny Distortion, which I keep in another folder and is fantastic. And Cyanide2 is in the same folder as Cyanide, so add that one, which is my favourite waveshaper. And get Karma FX synth, it has a good simple distortion that could be built out into something heavy duty.

And if anyone is wondering what some usual distortion effects actually are, check out this old thread that I started. It has several links to good info sites.