What is the best distortion plugin

[DjHuge2k]

Im workin on a new hardstyle song i made a phat melody so i figure why not make a track out of it.
i need a good distortion plug in for my kicks.. i use the sony sound forge distortion wich is to say the least not addiquate. please let me know what u guys think is the best distortion out there. Thanx alot latta

[deggy]

I own a bunch of distortion plugs. The ones that I use most for beats tend to the Guitar Amp simulator that comes in Logic 7, Guitar Rig, Amplitube, and I also love the Scream distortion in Reason 2.5/3 for individual hits or for various types of loops. Also, I sometimes boot up Cubase on my PC and process beats with that quadraFuzz that comes in Cubase SX. I tend not to use Izotope Trash as much for beats or drum sounds (sounds a little digital to my ears but what do i know) but more for distorted basses and lead synths and such.

Personally, I like Guitar Rig the best (I find it to be quite versatile) but the Reason scream distortion and the quadrafuzz will always be useful though.

[The Chase]

Tridirt
Tls Saturated Driver
Voxengo Tube Amp
E-Phonic Lofi
PWM Drive
BugDrive
Cyanide 2

(All free)

[Stupid American Pig]

chase gave you an excellent list of freebies, so that is a great starting point. since you asked for the "best" and didnt mention if you wanna pay for it or not, I will throw Izotope trash in to the mix.

[DjHuge2k]

sweet thats alot of good distortion plugins....
but what would be prime for Bassdrums.. the type of music im doing, hardstyle, revolves around distorting differnt bass drums to get a ranchy sound. Like how do they make their bass drums sound so rawnchy. Here is an example of what im trying to accomplish: http://www.djhuge.com/distortedkicks.mp3

[Jafo]

Depends on what kind of sound and feel you're after.

Simulanalog's JCM900 can do everything from warm, almost clean, to really buzzy. I'd try it first; it may be what you want. The rest of the Guitar Suite also has great models of classic fuzzboxen -- Boss SD-1 and DS-1, and a Tube Screamer.

BTE's Juicy77 is wicked cool, too, and gets really distorted all by itself. Serious gain! The TSS (Tube Screamer) clone is possibly the best such sim, and reall ypushes it further.

Boogex, Saro, Cortex, and XMasTube (the only SynthEdit amp sim I've ever liked) are also great. Cyanide is kinda cool, too.

Check out the "Instruments Effects Hosts etc." link to the upper right to search for more.

Happy fuzzing.

[deggy]

For Bass Drums (If you like any gabba or hardcore or hhc) Amplitube and Guitar Rig 2 are amazing. Like I said, I like Trash a lot but I don't really find it to be the best for those types of Gabber distorted 909 bass drums.

[DjHuge2k]

sweet thanks deggy i will definetly try to get amplitube 2 and im installing guitar rig right now ;-D

[hitman8081]

remember the best is not always the best if you dont know how to use it not implying that you do or dont but just in general

[scam_artist]

also try FuzzPlus 2 and Tone2 BiFilter (both free)

I use both alot for distortion. also CamelPhatFree might do the job (also free)

[DjHuge2k]

ya i heard about camel phat .. its a realy cool fx prossessor so im gonna downlaod the demo and check it out... thanx alot guys you have been most helpfull

[DjHuge2k]

wish things are as easy as they seem.. but they are not.. i installed Guitar Rig2 to try out H20 style. and now when i load the standalone it says this:

"sorry but your computer does not fulfill the minimum requirements to run Guitar Rig2. you need a CPU that supports SSE or Altivec."

and when i load the VSTi in to soundforge this error happens:

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D:\Program Files\OrionPlatinum\VstPlugins\G-RIG\GuitarRig 2.dll
Exception 0xC000001D (illegal instruction) IP:0x2AABCEE
In Module 'GuitarRig 2.dll' at Address 0x29D0000 + 0xDBCEE
Thread: SfVstMap_CreateEffect ID=0x874 Stack=0x12E000-0x130000
Registers:
 EAX=046d6ec0 CS=001b EIP=02aabcee EFLGS=00210202
 EBX=0012e138 SS=0023 ESP=0012e0c0 EBP=041c7f08
 ECX=000000b0 DS=0023 ESI=00000002 FS=003b
 EDX=00000000 ES=0023 EDI=000000b0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
 02AABCEE: 0F 28 04 24 0F 29 40 10 .(.: 8B 45 1C C7 44 24 0C 79 .E..Dy
Stack Dump:
 0012E0C0: BD2FC59A 
 0012E0C4: 3DB36520 
 0012E0C8: BE3E500E 
 0012E0CC: 3F209BB9 
 0012E0D0: 00000000 
 0012E0D4: 00000000 
 0012E0D8: 00000000 
 0012E0DC: 00000000 
 0012E0E0: 00000000 
 0012E0E4: 00000000 
 0012E0E8: 00000000 
 0012E0EC: 00000000 
 0012E0F0: 041C7F14  04170000 + 57F14 
 0012E0F4: 041C7F08  04170000 + 57F08 
 0012E0F8: 00000000 
 0012E0FC: 00000000 
> 0012E130: 029ECF7A  029D0000 + 1CF7A (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E134: 00000000 
  0012E138: 472C4400 
> 0012E13C: 029E5573  029D0000 + 15573 (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E140: 472C4400 
  0012E144: 47AC4400 
  0012E148: 00000002 
  0012E14C: 47AC4400 
> 0012E158: 02B4E56B  029D0000 + 17E56B (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E15C: 472C4400 
> 0012E160: 029ED965  029D0000 + 1D965 (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E164: 041C7E00  04170000 + 57E00 
  0012E168: 472C4400 
> 0012E16C: 02A024D9  029D0000 + 324D9 (GuitarRig 2.dll)
  0012E170: 472C4400 
  0012E174: 00000080 
  0012E178: 041C7B28  04170000 + 57B28 
  0012E17C: 0001ADB1 
> 0012E188: 02E4018C  029D0000 + 47018C (GuitarRig 2.dll)

im running an AMD duron 2ghz with 512 ram..(not enough ram for guitar rig mabey?)
what should i do

[bduffy]

Uh oh, you said the "H" word...

Dude, just search the plug-in database for "distortion" and "free". You can't go wrong, no need for Warez. Guitar Rig is way overkill for making hardcore kicks anyway!

[Reverse Engineer]

Someone already mentioned it, but guitar suite by Simulanalog is first class. No gui's, but i'm sure the sound is what counts........right?

[boin]

One more for CamelPhat. Great for kicks and basses.