Distortion plugins?

[Martin]

Hi!

Do you have any tips for nice distortion/saturation plugins to use for sounddesign? Im a bit bored with the ones i use and would like some new colors.

Also, i would like to hear if you have some techniques or tricks for distortion?

[Críoch]

What ones are you using atm Martin?

[Rickskii]

Current favourites are as follows:
cassette
Contemporary Colour
Kombinat Tri
Rc-20
SDRR2
Sketch Cassette
Decapitator
Degrader

Not all typical distortion but plenty of nice colour..

[Lost to the Void]

Do a forum search on distortion plugins
there have been some multi multi page discussions on this very subject with links and so on

[Martin]

What ones are you using atm Martin?

Mostly Decapitator or dist from some other Soundtoys plugin. I have SDRR2 from Klanghelm as well but i rarely use it.

Current favourites are as follows:
cassette
Contemporary Colour
Kombinat Tri
Rc-20
SDRR2
Sketch Cassette
Decapitator
Degrader

Not all typical distortion but plenty of nice colour..

Thanks, i will check them out! I used to own Kombinat dva from Audiodamage but lost it reinstalling the computer and forgot about it, i liked it, will check out the new version.

Do a forum search on distortion plugins
there have been some multi multi page discussions on this very subject with links and so on

Alright, i will do a search!

[dubdub]

The Ableton Amp and Pedal default FX are quite good, I tend to use those a lot these days.

[buffered]

reaktor has some nice tools. Analogic Filterbox is still really great.

[mindstuff]

I've found my most used saturation plugin after Ableton's stock saturation is iZotope Trash 2, specifically for its multiband feature.

[gedda]

reaktor has some nice tools. Analogic Filterbox is still really great.

What are you using it for mostly?

I just get the best results from it just through serendipity and it seems people who play with those type of distortion filter bank thingamabobs like the Sherman filter bank.

[buffered]

reaktor has some nice tools. Analogic Filterbox is still really great.

What are you using it for mostly?

I just get the best results from it just through serendipity and it seems people who play with those type of distortion filter bank thingamabobs like the Sherman filter bank.

Mostly as kind of a fuzz/distorted autofilter.
Alot of the time to add some rhytmical distortion/texture to bass.

[Fourty Two]

I picked this one up when it was free on black Monday and it's probably my go-to distortion now.

https://www.waves.com/plugins/berzerk-distortion

Kinda jack of all trades and built in ducking/eq is nice.

[over9000]

Is it possible to use waves plugs standalone?

[Fourty Two]

Is it possible to use waves plugs standalone?

Not as far as I know. They have theirs way how to manage plugins called Waves central, which is unnecessary garbage in my view, but bought couple of their plugins in one of their sales and found out about it afterwards. It's basically one dll files and somehow it aggregates all other installed plugins in what looks like a folder in your DAW. Od course I'm not Apple user, so I cannot tell how it looks like on that side.