Distortion Plugins

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:11 pm

Anyone ever tried using distortion, overdrive, any generally extreme guitar-amp-esque setups and applying them to violin, flute, etc.?

Just did this a while ago, and it gives violin so much more tone.

PS: I used the Distroyr plugin and turned most of the knobs up a fair bit.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:01 am

I can't think of when an application of a distortion plugin would help acoustic music but if it works for you then use it. There are lots of them out on the WWW and a quick search will turn up a lot of them some even FREE!

I have spent my whole adult life and quite a bit of money trying to minimize distortion on my live acoustical recordings but that is only me and my narrow view of what constitutes a good live recording. Your mileage may vary....

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 11:09 am

I was looking at it from a "I'm bored, have new free plugins I want to try, and tracks of vocalists, acoustic guitar, violin etc." so it was more seeing what would happen, rather than looking to stick a distortion pedal into the Insert on the mixer.
Could be quite funny actually Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:35 am

Samplitude and Sequioa V10 have something called "Distortion" in a plug-in, but I haven't gotten around to messing with it yet. I'll let you know when/if I do. Wink

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:55 am

Violins, we don't need no stinkin' violins....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTABwNdSgdA

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:50 am

LOL, that is top class.
The composer is probably turning in his grave...

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