Best means of distorting samples?

[Hollow Earth]

Hi there,

I use an MPC 2500 with JJOS. I also have a Lexicon MPX1 effects unit.

I'm looking into ways of distorting the sound of my samples. Initially I've been thinking things like Sherman Filterbank/Mutronics Mutator/Ebbe&Flut(though this last way to expensive) might be the way to go?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[meatballfulton]

Guitar pedals...cheap and effective

[Hollow Earth]

Guitar pedals...cheap and effective

ok that sounds like a good idea. any recommendations?

[tallowwaters]

Guitar pedals...cheap and effective

ok that sounds like a good idea. any recommendations?

Check the Sound Production sub forum here. Tons of distortion talk. Personally I would recommend owning a few distortion FX from bit/rate manglers to extreme filters to old cheap digital distortions to weird tube boxes.

[Hollow Earth]

many thanks

[nathanscribe]

What Tallow said. Also, there's such a prolific smorgasbord of distortion/overdrive/fuzz etc that it's really a matter of taste. Dive in and experiment. My personal choices have been a 2004 Boss DS-1, 2002-ish SD-1, Yamaha DI-01, EHX Big Muff Pi (new), Biyang OTD-100 Pro (tube OD), a home-made Fuzzface copy (using old-stock Ge transistors) and a home-made MXR Distortion+ copy (using OA91 diodes).

The two Bosses went, I've kept the rest. I use them for synths & electronic percussion.

Oh, and a home-made filter that overdrives at the drop of a small, light, droppable thing.

[tallowwaters]

All of those early and mid 90s amp sim boxes sound delightfully trash as well. I much prefer them to traditional distortion boxes.