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Distortion

Fruity Blood Overdrive

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Fruity Blood Overdrive is a distortion plugin that creates overdrive using classic techniques to deliver compressed and soft sounds, avoiding the harsh artifacts typical of digital processing. It works particularly well on guitar sources and includes an integrated band-pass filter for processing non-guitar audio. The plugin employs a signal chain of band-pass filtering, preamplification, low-pass filtering, and gain compensation to shape the final overdrive character.

Key Features

01Band-pass filtering with Pre Band amount and Color frequency controls
02Pre Amp with x100 boost mode for high-power distortion
03Post Filter low-pass filtering for distortion cleanup
04Post Gain compensation control for managing output levels
052-Pole low-pass filter in signal chain
06Non-linear signal response similar to vacuum tube compression
07Final digital clipping stage

Things to Try

  • 01Use Pre Band to remove high frequencies before overdrive that may result from driving audio with broad frequency range
  • 02Increase Pre Amp while compensating with the Post Gain knob to avoid excessive output
  • 03Use Post Filter to clean up distortion after pre-amplification and clipping
  • 04Apply to a full mix to achieve upward compression on independent frequency bands, which can improve some mixes and even be used for mastering

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