Dystortion (Plugin)

I agree with other people. ON/OFF switch is missing and sound is not spectacular. But it works - DAW is not crashing.

Plugin simply still needs some work. Its too early for writing more serious review.

Cool plugin! Adds a nice thickness on guitars. I didn't try it on vocals, but I bet it would be great for those.

Not really a distortion, rather a fuzz pedal in my opinion, due to the loose, obviously unfiltered, very fuzzy sounding bass, which unfortunately is not even adjustable. Does not sound bad, but also not outstanding. What I do not hear is anything unique.

Any average Rat or DS-1 plugin does a better job in my opinion, if it comes to distortion, any average Tube Screamer or SD-1 plugin, if it comes to overdrive.

I personally would not want to place it in front of one of my favorite tube amp simulations, as they sound much better without such a transistor/op-amp/practicing amp tone voiced plugin like this.

On/off switch is missing, apart from other necessary or even essential controls. Amateurishly looking GUI.

Nice first try maybe, but still far away from a lot of meanwhile usual more professional features, looks and tones.

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Addition to your response (I obviously can only add it here):

With more professional features I mainly meant more control options for the user. This plugin would have been nice maybe 10 years ago, when good sounding, usable pedal plugins still were rare. But meanhwile we have 2022 and this plugin is released in a meanwhile completely overcrowded market and also the quality as much as the implemented features hav improved a lot during the last years.

So meanwhile you can also get pedal simulations, which not only simulate some analog circuits or tones, but also add some features, which the real pedals do not offer, but which are possible in the digital world, like eg. sound independent input / output level controls, additional filtering options or controls for mixing the processed and the original signal, some offer different voicings due to popular modded versions of the real pedals or comparable additional features, which improve usability and user-friendliness, just to name some examples.

In direct comparison to such plugins a single knob solution is not really a very convincing, alternate, competitive offer in my opinion.

With amateurishly looking GUI I meant the blue color, the Strat potentiometer knob and the unprofessional looking typography and design, which reminds me of the 1990's. (You just have to look what competitors make different.) From the symbolic and color psycological meaning this look do not really match a distortion pedal very much. If the pedal was a clean booster I'd say, ok, but a distortion pedal needs a more powerful, darker, dirtier look than light blue and yellow or at least a more neutral one. In other words, the look sends another message about the content than the tones do.

Just my personal impressions, on the other hand I find it positive that somebody releases a different, more individual solution and not just the next Tube Screamer release, from which meanwhile anyway are more than enough existing.