Does a quality universal au distortion/overdrive plug exist?

digidan · Post by **digidan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:11 am

I am looking for a plug that can emulate overdrive, saturation, distortion, etc... and I'm coming up short. I have found camel phat, but nothing else. Anyone mind telling me what you use, and or like?

I want to be able to create the overdriven tube mic sound on vocal tracks and maybe add bite to percussion tracks or even fuzz up a bass guitar line.

A plug that can do destructive digital dither, down sampling, bit crushing, (not sure what it's called) for really knarled up sounds would be nice as well.

***must be mac pro universal binary (intel) compatible.***

Hide · Post by **Hide** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:25 am

iZotope trash

mikebeckmotu · Post by **mikebeckmotu** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:52 am

Another vote for Izotope Trash. I tried the demo and liked it a lot.
You might want to also consider one of the guitar amp modelers, like Guitar Rig, Amplitube or Gearbox. You'll get a lot more effects and coloring than distortion with those, too.
DUY's Valve plugin adds very nice saturation and overdrive, though I find it works best as a mixing tool to add some analog flavor, like Vintage Warmer.
Nomad Factory BlueTubes plugins are available with a fully functioning, time-limited demo.

grimepoch · Post by **grimepoch** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:01 pm

I'd say iZotope Trash as well. While I do not use it, I have, and was very impressed.

Since I use a UAD-1e card, I tend to use Nigel when I need some of that. I use an outboard PodXT for all other needs. Line6 now has a plugin version of the Pod, I think it might be called gearbox, but I don't know if it is UB.

More guitar oriented, I believe there is Guitar Rig 2 from NI that is UB, and Amplitube I believe. I've really not done a lot of research down that avenue. I've been so happy with the Pod I've not looked elsewhere (and Nigel).

daveyboy · Post by **daveyboy** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:53 am

Another vote for Trash. Plus, it has a great analog delay that I use a lot on various sources.

vier-personen · Post by **vier-personen** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:01 am

Try and see if you like Warp Drive by Andrew Garber. It is simple, 2 controlls (saturation and output gain), but I think it is quite nice and it is freeware. http://www.cs.camosun.bc.ca/~c0262447/software/

digidan · Post by **digidan** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:59 am

Thanks for the responces guys!!! Trash looks cool, I will check it out! Too bad antares dropped their tube plug. I think that was what I was looking for.

vier-personen, do you know if the warp drive plug is ub? Are you on a intel mac???

grimepoch · Post by **grimepoch** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:11 pm

I was looking for that too and couldn't find it on the site either.

mitchwalcott · Post by **mitchwalcott** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:19 pm

I have used the MOTU pre-amp plug-in within DP 5.11. (It's the one with the red skin on it.) I have been pretty happy with the results when it comes to distortion and such. I was not sure if you had tried this yet or not.

bendrissa · Post by **bendrissa** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:44 pm

Predatohm is great.

http://www.ohmforce.com/ViewProduct.do?p=Predatohm

vier-personen · Post by **vier-personen** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:49 pm

digidan wrote: vier-personen, do you know if the warp drive plug is ub? Are you on a intel mac???

warp drive‘s intel_igence abilities are universal.

grimepoch wrote:I was looking for that too and couldn't find it on the site either.

the link is on the top right of the site, or just scroll down. nevermind, here‘s the direct download: http://www.cs.camosun.bc.ca/~c0262447/s ... -drive.dmg

grimepoch · Post by **grimepoch** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:22 pm

Hehe, no I found the download link but nothing to say it was universal. I did however download it and do see that it is infact a universal as you say. I will test it out tonight!

vier-personen · Post by **vier-personen** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:36 am

so how do you like it?