[LAU] Good LADSPA distortion like effect

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:00:40AM +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote:
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> Am 09.05.2010 22:50, schrieb Julien Claassen:
> > Hello all!
> >   I'm looking for a good type of distortion/overdirve. Something that
> > goes well with a guitar and makes the strings sustain nicely and adds
> > some colour.
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> Get guitarix:
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/guitarix/guitarix-0.07.1.tar.bz2/download
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> it works perfectly well as a stand-alone and as a LADSPA plug in in
> ardour and others.
> 
> It is a intergrated amp with a certain character, if you like something
> more flexible try the amp-modules from Tim Goetze and David Yeh that can
> be found in the C*-collection:
> 
> http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html
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> with the former I work now on a track with quite metal-oriented guitars.
> The latter I used for tracks like this one:
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> http://lapoc.de/demos/lapoc-sos-ashita-141008.ogg

Wow, that's a really good indie/alternative peice. The guitar sounds in particular are great. Did you use the CAPS to get them all? Nice stuff.


> For this one I used the C*-modules in a patch for ams:
> http://lapoc.de/spinoff-amsguitrack.php

> 
> both do perfectly well what you desire and more ;-)
> 
> best regs
> HZN
> 
> 
> >   I tried the valve rectifier (Unique ID: 1405 or 1404) from the SWH
> > plugins. It sound great, yet when no strings are played, there's a lot
> > of noise, which is quite undesireable. any good suggestions?
> >   Kindly yours
> >           Julien
> >