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Giuseppe Rizzo
Sep 07, 13:38

Hi everyone. Does anyone have any insight on the type of distortion used in “Distorted Reality”? It almost sounds like there’s more than one kind being applied. Sometimes it feels like the distortion brightens things up, other times it darkens and flattens the highs. And at other times, it seems focused on the upper-mid range… If anyone with more experience knows something about this, could you please share? Thanks!

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John Ackerberg
Sep 07, 15:43

I am not sure about different kinds of distortion being applied randomly. Based on all the other exercises it would not make sense if this particular one was somehow more sophisticated.

What I've noticed is that they can be extremely subtle with the application of it and many times they play with volume to try to trick you that that's the one with more distortion.

It's one of my least favorite to play because of this.

Hope this helps even a little.

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Giuseppe Rizzo (author)
Sep 07, 20:25

Hi John, thanks for the reply. Mine was just an impression that SoundGym might be using different types of saturation and not only changing the amount applied to the audio sample. Thanks a lot for confirming!

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Jérôme Jaglale
Sep 07, 20:45

I got that feeling too, sometimes low end distortion, sometimes it's in the highs, but I'm not totally sure since the sounds are not always the same. But I guess it makes sense, distortion is degradation of some kind, right? Not necessarily a specific saturation effect?

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