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wwmm / easyeffects

Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
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Tube gear simulation? #2528

Open Ghoost666 opened 1 year ago

Ghoost666 commented 1 year ago

Hello,

i was wondering if it would be possible to add a plugin that can "simulate" tube gear (adding distortion only) or maybe there is already a plugin for that i dont know yet?

wwmm commented 1 year ago

i was wondering if it would be possible to add a plugin that can "simulate" tube gear

There is not plugin for this at the moment.

wwmm commented 1 year ago

I have never tried to add this kind of effect. Maybe there is an impulse response file in the internet hat could do something in this direction in the convolver.

Ghoost666 commented 1 year ago

i think something like the calf studio plugin "saturator" is what we need for adding harmonic distortion

i looked into the impulse responses aka amp sims but im unsure if this gets me "true tube amp" sound, i think we just wanna add distortion and not cab sims etc

fullfine909 commented 12 months ago

Hey. I think I've discovered something similar that actually works, but I'd appreciate an explanation of what's going on under the hood. I've mapped a midi controller, specifically an encoder, to the volume of the pc. Using the controller I can get the volume above 100%, something I can't do with the keyboard. Using this and lowering the volume on the sound card, I can get a nice saturated/distorted sound that I really like, especially with techno music. I think this is due to digital clipping and not the best way to do it, but the results were quite impressive

wwmm commented 12 months ago

I think this is due to digital clipping

Based on the procedure it seems the most likely cause.