Incinerator Drone Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Basically I'm doing an electronic project with a huge rock/hardcore edge to it. And the moment I'm getting some decent fuzz sounds by applying BOSS overdrive effects (SD-1, etc.) to a bass VST. However I want to get a more "guitarish" feel, and all of the guitar VSTs I know of sound kind of crappy. Even with bass there is probably something better to use than an overdrive pedal. Anyone know any good ways to emulate guitar-ish distortion outside of recording actual guitars? Or any interesting ways to get to a cool distorted sound, doesn't even necessarily have to be guitar based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Mokram Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Guitar Rig isn't too bad when it comes to fuzz & distortion, even for bass. The basic overdrive effect tend to try to render an electric guitar effect, so it may not be as convincing for say, an electronic bass or a synth either. Try this: -Mixdown your guitar/bass part, import it in your wave editor, and use distortion plugin on the part. -Then pass it through a noisegate to add grain while avoiding sound saturation. -Finally add a phaser filter on top, and normalize the average rms to -16dB. I get a really nice fuzz sound, free of clipping by doing that. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuketheXjesse Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Sixto's got some good guitar VSTs here, if you're interested. I use KeFir in my rock recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_The_Composer Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 I think that loads of things will work, but most important is variation in each instrument. Like dead notes, slides, etc... for any instrument will add a genuine quality that will beat high quality yet same samples I think. It's also really easy to play once you've created a custom patch in your sampler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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