Distorters / Saturators

Dave Hill, the audio electronics designer and founder of Crane Song and Dave Hill Designs, has sadly passed away aged 68.

Arturia's Winter Sale is now live, with savings of 50% available across their range of individual software instruments, effects, and preset packs.

A selection of Universal Audio's renowned plug-ins are now available to purchase individually, or as part of three new bundles, without the need for any UA hardware. 

This software recreation introduces some powerful modulation capabilities that are not present in the original device. 

Waves' latest channel strip promises to accurately recreate the circuit behaviour of carefully selected vintage valve-based hardware.

This latest plug-in from Nembrini Audio aims to recreate the tones provided by the classic ADA MP-1 guitar preamp, and also includes some built-in effects and cabinet modelling. 

The updated version of the VTC allows the device to be used as a saturation effect with the compressor section bypassed, and introduces some enhancements to the unit's circuitry. 

FireMaximizer combines a clipper and saturator with two limiter modes, and allows users to blend continuously between them using an X/Y pad. 

Acustica Audio's latest channel strip plug-in offers a combination of saturation, EQ, and compression, and allows users to combine sections to provide dynamic EQ facilities. 

McDSP have announced that all new APB-16 units will now come equipped with a USB-C connector and support for Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 ports on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Nembrini Audio's latest plug-in has been inspired by Tech 21's SansAmp Bass Driver DI, and extends the capabilities of the original by including built-in cabinet and microphone emulations. 

Swole is the first plug-in from independant developer Okay Audio, and promises to offer a quick fix for thin sounding source material and mixes.

The latest version of ShaperBox focuses on the plug-in's NoiseShaper module, adding a selection of drum sounds and a new Noise Pitch control. 

Acustica Audio have released Arctic, a free mix bus processing plug-in which combines compression, limiting and saturation.

PSPaudioware have announced the release of PSP 285, a new semi-modular delay plug-in that comes equipped with built-in saturation effects, a selection of filters, and a flexible modulation section.

Zoom's latest multi-effects guitar pedals offer amp and cabinet simulation powered by the company's new Multi-Layer IR technology. 

Black Rooster Audio's latest plug-in emulates the Tech 21 SansAmp GT2 pedal, offering a wide range of overdriven tones that can be utilised on a variety of sources. 

Gainlab Audio's latest device couples a valve microphone preamp with an optical compressor that features an interesting "double slope" design. 

Arturia have announced the release of a new filter and distortion plug-in, and are currently offering it for free for a limited time to celebrate the holiday season. 

Blue Cat Audio have announced that native Apple Silicon AAX versions of all of their current offerings are now available, with a range of individual plug-ins also gaining a variety of new features and functionality.

The latest saturation plug-in from Waves is equipped with two distortion sections that offer a wide range of overdriven tones and promise to help any vocal or instrument sound jump out of a mix.