distortion
Adds harmonics by non-linear processing, from gentle colouration to deliberate destruction.
Airwindows— Chris Johnson
Huge collection of effects using simple UI controls.
Biztortion— Gabriel Bizzo
Modular distortion plugin for VST-based hosts. DOWNLOAD it for FREE in the Releases section.
Breakdowner— Juan Sebastian Ospina
Distortion plugin with a pedal-style UI
BYOD— Chowdhury DSP
Build-your-own guitar distortion!
CHOW— Chowdhury DSP
Digital ditortion effect designed for maximum truculence, somewhere between a true half-wave rectifier and a noisy vintage compressor. Useful for mixing guitars, drums, even vocals when a heavily degraded sound is desire
Chow Tape Model— Chowdhury DSP
Chow Tape Model is a digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260, but has since been expanded to be able to model a wide variety of tape machin
Crispy— herzplatinedurchgebrannt
Saturation plugin with odd/even harmonic control, pre-saturation high/low pass filters, oversampling, matched bypass, and auto-gain
Crystal Bowie— IcebreakerAudio
Simple, customizable clipper plugin
Distortion Designer— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas
A distortion/overdrive design tool for guitar amp emulation, chaining a noise gate, EQ, distortion waveshaping, and compression stages so you can dial in values to reuse in your own distortion modules.
DISTROAR— Melinte Florin
Heavy, gritty VST3 distortion plugin for electric guitar.
dm-BigMuff— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-DS1— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-Fuzz— Dave Mollen
Fuzz plugin
dm-Rat— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-SD1— Dave Mollen
Overdrive plugin
dm-Shredmaster— Dave Mollen
Distortion plugin
dm-TubeScreamer— Dave Mollen
Overdrive plugin
DPCM Bitcrusher— potatoTeto
A JUCE Bitcrush VST emulating NES 2A03 DPCM sound
Dust Saturator— Andy Ma
Dust Saturator adds upper harmonics and a sandy, granular texture to a sound by time-shifting each sample forward based on its amplitude, without clamping the signal's peaks.
FaceMelter— Rudro085
This is a distortion pedal vst plugin for guitar.
Fire— Jerry Yifeng
Multiband distortion plugin.
Folder— sout_Nantang
A strange distortion VST plugin
Fuzz Ball— Fake Industries
A fuzzy audio distortion plugin
GnomeDistort 2— CROWBAIT
A brutal, destructive multi-band distortion plugin — not intended for soft saturation.
GuitPreamp— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas
Guitar preamp plugin blending ideas from multiple preamp effects — noise gate, tone-shaping character/emphasis EQ, tube-emulated drive, and a compressor
HarmonicExciter— Hermann
Based on a half-wave clipper, adds harmonics to the source signal by mixing them in.
Homecorrupter— Igor Zinken
VST plugin that reduces sampling rate, bit depth and playback speed on-the-fly
HTek Distortion— kiztam
Piecewise, memoryless soft-knee hard clipper with a monotonic quartic transition between the linear and saturated regions, plus optional bias and DC compensation
Hyperclip— Albert Shefner
Distortion/clipper plugin
JCBDistortion— cjitter
Plugin distorsionador hecho con gen~, Plugin Export y JUCE
JS Inflator— Aris Kiriki-Liszt
JS Inflator is a copy of Sonnox Inflator.
Kapitonov Plugins Pack— Oleg Kapitonov
A collection of LV2 guitar sound processing plugins, including a tube amp emulator with preamp/tonestack/power-amp/cabinet stages, distortion, and fuzz.
Kapitonov Plugins Pack (KPP)— olegkapitonov
Set of guitar sound processing plugins (VST3). Includes tubeAmp (advanced tube amp emulator with profiles), Bluedream, Distruction, Fuzz, Deadgate, Octaver, and Single2Humbucker. Great for guitar tones.
Kiln— Martin Morrell
A multiband linear-phase crossover plugin with per-band compression, limiting, and saturation, summed back together with no phase smearing.
Krunch— Matthijs Hollemans
Lowpass filter + saturation audio effect plug-in
Le Phonk— Speechrezz
A distortion plugin with a built-in "Le Ottz" OTT-style multiband compression mode, time and multiplier controls, and automatic update checking.
maetning— soerenbnoergaard
A saturation plugin with multiple selectable saturation algorithms, available as VST2 and LV2.
Maim— Arden Butterfield
Circuit bends MP3 and Opus encoders in real time to create distortion and digital glitches.
MDA Bandisto— djshaji
This plug is like MultiBand but uses 3 bands of clipping instead of compression. This is unlikely to be a plug you use every day, but when you want to recreate the sound of torn bass-bins you know where to come!
MDA Degrade— djshaji
Amp Rack is a Guitar / Voice Audio Effects Processor for Android. Amp Rack is an Open Source LADSPA Plugins Host for Android. More than 150 high quality audio plugins are available which can be added in any order to the
MDA Dither— djshaji
When a waveform is rounded to the nearest 16 (or whatever)-bit value this causes distortion. Dither allows you to exchange this rough sounding signal-dependant distortion for a smooth background hiss.
MDA Overdrive— djshaji
Possible uses include adding body to drum loops, fuzz guitar, and that 'standing outside a nightclub' sound. This plug does not simulate valve distortion, and any attempt to process organ sounds through it will be extrem
MDA SubSynth— djshaji
More bass than you could ever need!
Modern Distortion Synthesizer— Colin Raab
A polyphonic wavetable synthesizer featuring four sources (two wavetable oscillators, a noise generator, and a sampler) with per-voice, per-source filters, envelopes, and distortion.
OmniAmp— ArborealAudio
Multi-purpose audio tool.
Pandamonium Fuzz— Matt Anikiej
Pandamonium Fuzz is a chaotic and characterful fuzz pedal plugin. Delivers wild, unpredictable fuzz tones with great sustain and grit — perfect for adding mayhem to your guitar sound.
Phlegetron— Igor Zinken
Multi-band distortion audio plugin using different distortion algorithms over two band splitting modes
PiMax— ArborealAudio
Loudness maximizer & multiband saturation plugin
PlugNspectr— Kevin Jenkins
Analyzes the frequency response, harmonic distortion, and dynamics of other audio plugins in your DAW in real time
Pult EQ— Consistent Interruption
Pult EQ is a free and open source Pultec style tube EQ VST3 plugin. Features low/high boost & attenuation (Pultec trick), mid/side & stereo modes, tube saturation with auto gain and up to 16x oversampling. For adding moj
Punk Muff— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas
A JUCE audio plugin that emulates the behaviour of the Big Muff pedal effect through a ML model.
Punk Xros— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas
A multiband distortion plugin inspired by the Darkglass Microtubes X, using a machine-learning model trained on the Darkglass Microtubes B3k pedal for its distortion stage.
SatuMorpher— HomerChel
Saturation plugin that morphs between two saturation types, with drive, mix, and oversampling controls
Schrammel OJD— JanosGit
Audio plugin model of a modern classic guitar overdrive Pedal
Setekh— Full FX Media
A minimalistic yet sonically powerful distortion plugin
Sound of Music— Vivek Vijayan
A multiband bit crusher plugin
Spectral Abyss Multiband Saturation— Philipp Schaupp
Multiband Saturation Plugin
Temper— Creative Intent
Digital distortion plugin built upon traditional waveshaping techniques. Uses modulated filter coefficients to produce a unique phase distortion.
The Kiss of Shame— Matthijs Hollemans
Magnetic tape and analog circuitry emulation processor
The Kiss of Shame Rev2— Eros Marcello
Analog tape emulation with two tape voicings, four storage environments, wow/flutter, hiss, and print-through modeling.
Transfer— Syl Morrison
A waveshaper-based distortion plugin whose transfer function is JIT compiled from a user-entered text expression.
TS-808-Ultra— James Stubbs
A digital model of the classic Ibanez Tube Screamer 808 overdrive pedal, using Wave Digital Filter nodal analysis of the analog circuit.
Tumult— Consistent Interruption
A noisemaker, texturizer and vintage-tone maker audio effect plugin
UltraGlitch BitFucker— Ricky van Poppel
Wonky glitch effects plugin for chaotic bit-crushing and glitch mangling, available as Standalone, VST3, and AU
Valentine— Tote Bag Labs
A compressor and distortion processor inspired by the hyper compressed and crushed textures in the seminal Justice record.
Waxman— Christopher Arndt
Waxman is a virtual guitar pre-amp and tone-stack comprising of a noise gate, compressor, distortion and equalizer stage. It is a multi-format, cross-platform audio effect plugin, emulating the sound of a Tom Scholz Rock
Wolf Shaper— Wolf Plugins
Distortion plugin that lets you create your own waveshaping functions using a spline-based graph editor.
WSTD CRSHR— Wasted Audio
Simple bit reduction plugin
WSTD FLDR— Wasted Audio
Simple wave folder plugin.
WSTD SMTHR— Wasted Audio
Simple soft-clipping overdrive plugin.
ZL Inflator— ZL Audio
A distortion/saturation plugin that increases perceived loudness, with auto-gain compensation and a dB-scaled response plot.
