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druid · Post by **druid** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:58 pm

There are a couple of Buzz distortion plugins I liked to use when I still used Buzz, but I have not been able to find any plugin that does the same thing. All distortion plugins seem to want to be tube simulators or based on real hardware.

The name of one in particular I like is "Fuzzpilz UnwieldyDist". It allows you to set the distortion seperately for left and right audio channel, and you have the following parameters: Preamp, TopT (presumably top threshold), BotT, Dist type, Top Clamp (not sure what it does, limiting?), Bot Clamp, Dry out, Mix type, and postamp. The distortion types are clip (I'm sure there are VSTs out there with that), Reassign, Invert, Wrap, Zero, Random, RandomT, and RandomZ.

I'm not sure what all of them do, but they provide slightly different distortions, presumably they are digital in nature. But I can't seem to replicate the effects I can do with this plugin with VSTs that I've found so far.

I also like LdC's Destroyer. And Whitenoise's Stereo-dist. They all seem to be more experimental digital distortion that do things that I haven't seen in VST effcts.

Does anyone know of any VSTs that do a wide range of different distortions and has a lot of different effects, so that I can try to get a very similar, if not the same, sound? I miss those plugins.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:04 am

Have you tried Crazy Ivan? Guaranteed to do distortion that nothing else does, and you'd wish it never had done...

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:29 am

the most flexible vst-distortions I know of are Cyanide2 and ConcreteFX LowBit - no seperate left/right distortion though...

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:43 am

There are a ton of distortion plugins, all do things a bit differently. I can't seem to have too many distortions, delays and filters it seems.

Stuff you might be interested in trying that's out of the ordinary:

ISM's Spice
Chaotikmind's Quantik and Demonwave
Jonas Norberg's Firegain and PWMDrive
Exponent's Delta Force
Noizware Tridirt (although modelled more on hardware it's one of my favourites)

pw · Post by pw » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:54 am

also try the freeware 'qamp' from concrete fx. it is wild.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:49 am

Did you try Jeskola's Buzz VST adapter/wrapper? Requires Buzz to be installed which shouldn't be a big deal.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/359.html

I have to try it out myself yet...

Edit: the download link here at KVR is broken, refer to Jeskola's new site:
http://www.jeskola.net/buzzvst/

druid · Post by **druid** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:23 am

I was weary of trying that due to needing Buzz installed. I was hoping that would be a wrapper to load Buzz .dll machines.

I still intend to try it however. I haven't got around to it yet.

JackDark · Post by **JackDark** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:05 pm

Nice links Shamann!

druid · Post by **druid** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:12 am

Some of those plugins are capable of some cool effects, so they will come in handy. Thanks!

Buzz has more varied distortions, are there similar VSTs?