Cytomic "The Scream" stomp box distortion plugin

[izonin]

One thing I'd change about that GUI is the font where it says "THE SCREAM". It's too generic.
The rest is ace.

[kj.metissage]

One thing I'd change about that GUI is the font where it says "THE SCREAM". It's too generic.
The rest is ace.

Agreed, that font doesn't scream, it's too polite.

Also, I like the green one best.

The last one with the green sparkles looks kind of low fidelity. Like a grainy JPEG. Don't like that one at all.

Nice work !

[resynthesis]

That looks very nice. Interesting controls too, never heard a TS with bias or starve

Thanks! The starve is a potentiometer (variable resistor) in series with the battery to lower the power rail, and the bias is a potentiometer for the bias voltage divider. They are super handy to adjust when the buffer transistor and opamp power rail clipping kicks in, so you can get all sorts of different clipping tones happening easier, which is useful not only for guitar but also for synths and other FSU type applications.

Aye, I've used them in fuzzboxes but never thought to try in with a TS type pedal.

[metalifuxx]

Please do and add the option for the famed and most added mod, the TS Analogman silver mod or maybe you already have that as the mod option?

I have the VHT V-Drive, which is a TS on steroids, and it includes a voltage control (the continuous non-dent circular dial on the back top) for either starving the power down to 4.5 volts or increasing it up to 15 volts for more headroom, or leave it in the middle for standard 9 volt or anywhere in between. Great versatile pedal for the tone tweaked, and you can find them used for $50-$100. Couple different clipping modes for low drive all the way into a higher gain distorted overdrive. It has a no diode clip mode which you use the pedal as a tone selectable boost using the high headroom 15 volt or you can drop it down to 4.5 volts and lower the tone and texture and get some low to very gritty high gain very useable touch responsive fuzz tones similar to a Big Muff. The Depth is very handy for controlling the low freq cutoff to match your guitars pickups to the amp your using, i.e. lower it some if you have higher output humbuckers to tighten up and take care of wooly woofieness and bass flab or increase it to really fatten up thin single coils.

[Agreed]

Feel like there are a lot of TS emulations already, even competing freebies from respected developers

Would love to see some less ubiquitous but still popular pedals emulated, maybe an original guv'nor or some well done EHX emulation... Ibanez gets all the love :p

But, judging from responses in the thread, I think I might be in the minority on that.

[cprompt]

maybe an original guv'nor

That would be great. This one http://www.soft-amp.com/softdrive-gv is a damn good plugin and is probably my favourite overdrive plugin.

[xalama qo]

FWIW I'd love to see a ProCo RAT from cytomic

[Agreed]

I was going to say a RAT too, and you could have mods for really far out stuff, like a mod that makes the component values correct for a Honeybee (etc.)

A Big Muff with mods for some of the more famous versions would be cool, to get more specific about EHX. Although one of my favorite mass produced pedals is the EHX Metal Muff, which is in the same constellation as the DOD Grunge and the Dan-O Distortion (big cockroach brown one from the 1990s-2000s, not the various stuff they've done since), which bear similarities to the Metal Zone. But, uh, don't do any of those except the EHX Metal Muff, it's the one that makes best use of the general design by a long shot IMO.

Anyway man not at all trying to crap on the TS, just have a lot of them at this point, some free and some paid - I'll still probably at least demo this just because I am a sucker for a good guitar plug

[sqigls]

this is a pretty good RAT clone...
http://byocelectronics.com/mouseschematic.pdf

well, not 'clone' exactly, but can sound like, plus much more

[dayjob]

stoked for this. looks great. digging the black gui the most.. but they're all cool.

can't wait to hear it!

[Winstontaneous]

I was going to say a RAT too, and you could have mods for really far out stuff, like a mod that makes the component values correct for a Honeybee (etc.)

A Big Muff with mods for some of the more famous versions would be cool, to get more specific about EHX. Although one of my favorite mass produced pedals is the EHX Metal Muff, which is in the same constellation as the DOD Grunge and the Dan-O Distortion (big cockroach brown one from the 1990s-2000s, not the various stuff they've done since), which bear similarities to the Metal Zone. But, uh, don't do any of those except the EHX Metal Muff, it's the one that makes best use of the general design by a long shot IMO.

Anyway man not at all trying to crap on the TS, just have a lot of them at this point, some free and some paid - I'll still probably at least demo this just because I am a sucker for a good guitar plug

I believe the Ibanez SD-9 Sonic Distortion is a mix of the Big Muff & Rat circuits. I had one and it was pretty touch sensitive (like a TS, minus the horrendous midrange boost ).

[spunkmuffin]

I really like the green sparkle version and the clean hyperrealistic rendering is really nice. Please don't add any scuffs or dents to the box - just keep it clean and new looking. I like the font type as is. It works for me.

Soundwise I would like to hear what it does for synths.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I like the green one except for the font, followed by the green sparkle version. That said, I think I was hoping it would look nothing like the stomp box. For some reason, I was thinking it'd look like a green version of The Drop. You know, landscape aspect ratio, 2 big silver knobs for gain and tone, lots of little knobs and buttons underneath for the tweaks.

[Winstontaneous]

I like the pukey green and sparkle green versions and the stompbox format.

[incubus]

Where is this to try? Is it only for current customers?