DISTORTION/SATURATION

Fuzz up your signals with custom dirt – from waveshaping to saturation and soft clipping, this diverse bunch of plugins are guaranteed to play as rough as you like with any audio material

Sonimus Satson CM Classic mixer channel emulation Subtle warming saturation Gentle, musical high/low filters Full Satson Buss also available AU/VST, 32-/64-bit dsp.sonimus.com

Rop Papen RP-Distort CM Five crunchy distortion algorithms EQ, dynamics, widener, modulation Filter and parallel processing controls • AU/VST, 32-/64-bit www.robpapen.com

Mercuriall U530 CM Emulation of ENGL’s E530 preamp Customisable Clean & Lead circuits Presence, Contour, Chorus & Gain Changeable mic/speaker position AU/VST, 32-/64-bit www.mercuriall.com

HoRNet Graffio CM Flexible three-flavour distortion Saturator module with DC offset Exciter with odd/even harmonics Bit reducer to degrade sounds AU/VST/VST3/AAX/RTAS, 32-/64-bit www.hornetplugins.com

Lindell 6X-500 CM Classic preamp emulation with EQ High/low boosts for musical tone Modelled on Lindell’s 6X-500 hardware preamp/EQ • AU/VST, 32-/64-bit www.lindellplugins.com

Audio Assault GrindMachine CM Five amp and ten cab emulations 3-band EQ plus depth and presence Djentbox to tighten low tunings AU/VST, 32-/64-bit www.audioassault.com

Cableguys WaveShaper CM Graphically editable distortion Design curves by dragging nodes Input vs output oscilloscope Not based on an existing plugin AU/VST, 32-/64-bit www.cableguys.com