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Originally Posted by Mantik  since i own a very cheap tube amp for my recording synth chain i stay away from every plugin and came to the conclusion that non-analog distortion sucks realy bad.
get yourself a tube and just overdrive the input. get yourself more tubes to have some more possibilites but for my case i will stay away from software in the future. |
well, not all digital distortion is software. Like I said before, my DOD digital distortion (DigiTech PDS1550) blew away all the vintage distortions that I had (not for guitar, for industrial synths). I know that DOD is generally sucky and not one of the 'cool' manufacturers, but maybe they accidentally struck gold with that one.
Also, some tubes produce a good sound and others don't. Some distortion boxes have a tube that doesn't do anything but capitalize on the folks that assume anything with a tube is going to sound better.