distortion question

[szaszhareen]

ryg's analog distortion and jeskola distortion both have a "clamp" parameter. I haven't been able to figure out what this does exactly, or how best to use it. does anyone care to give a little beginner instruction on what this does?

I've been trying to use TAL bitcrusher for distortion and it sounds great but it makes buzz crash unpredictably. this makes me want to stick with buzzmachines, but I haven't been able to get the same sort of sound using bass3 and ryg or jeskola distortion. in addition to my first question, does anyone have suggestions for a bitcrusher buzz machine?

thanks!

[sparschäler]

Joachim's Saturn
StereoSH (lightweight, with filter - my favourite)

[szaszhareen]

thanks, I'll try those out!

do you have a link to stereoSH or the name of the developer so I can find it on buzzmachines.com?

[sparschäler]

http://www.buzzmachines.com/machineinfo.php?id=616

[Joachip]

ryg's analog distortion and jeskola distortion both have a "clamp" parameter. I haven't been able to figure out what this does exactly, or how best to use it.

As far as I've understood, the word "clamp" usually means hard limiting the range to a certain minimum and/or maximum, which in the case of audio will give you waveshaping like this (normal on top, clamped below):

Let me know if I'm wrong here.

[esp81]

does anyone have suggestions for a bitcrusher buzz machine?

I really like DedaCode Degradation.

http://www.buzzmachines.com/machineinfo.php?id=788

[szaszhareen]

thanks for the machine suggestions.

@joachip: that's the best explanation I've heard so far, thanks!

[syphilissauna]

i really like smartelectronix tubescreamer for bass sounds it comes in vst and buzzmachine format .

[Evelon]

Ohmicide. Mmmm....

/Side-note hijack

[Tiadiad]

Nuke