Distorted but not broken

April 132010

Distortion demonstration:
MI Audio Crunch box
Analog Man Boss-DS1
Carl Martin Plexitone
ZVex Box of Rock + OD-9
OD-9 + ZVex NanoHead
MI Audio Crunch box + ZVex NanoHead

Duration : 0:1:33

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BLADE vs UNDERWORLD (Wesley Snipes vs Kate Beckinsale) – Weapons of Mad Distortion

April 102010

BROUGHT TO YOU IN HD AND STEREO SOUND. **DISCLAIMER** My uploads are non-profit, noncommercial, fan-made, and for entertainment purposes only. I do not own any material of the videos that I’ve posted, nor am I affiliated with the production figures listed below. No copyright infringement intended. All material is © to their respective and rightful owners. Im just a huge fan of the Blade and Underworld films.

Footage:
Blade © MCMXCVII New Line Productions Inc. © MMI New Line Home Entertainment, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Blade 2 © MMII New Line Productions, Inc. © MMIV New Line Entertainment, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.

Blade Trinity © MMIV New Line Productions, Inc. © MMV New Line Home Entertainment, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Underworld, Underworld Theatrical Trailer & Underworld Evolution © Lakeshore Entertainment & Screen Gems/Subterranean Productions LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Audio:
Red Tape composed by Agent Provocateur
The Jackal: Original Motion Picture Score © MCA Records. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Clubbed to Death composed by Rob D.
The Matrix: Original Picture Score © Warner Brothers/WMG/Maverick.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Bonus Track:
Weapons of Mad Distortion The Crystal Method/Ken Jordan
Blade Trinity: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack © New Line Records. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Blade Underworld Agenda Image was created by Junice Dominguez.
For more information go to
www.junicedesign.com/bladepage.html

Duration : 0:7:18

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Electro Pop Tutorial – Part 3: Making a Distorted Guitar-esque Synth

April 72010

http://www.boyinaband.com – head over to my website to see the text version of the tutorial, grab some samples and check out my other blogs and tutorials!

On this Reason 4 tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to make a Distorted Guitar-esque synth patch in Reason.

This is a pretty complex patch, probably the most intricate one in the series, but I’ll do my best to break things down as simply as possible. It’ll involve Two instances of Thor, splitting the audio with a spider audio splitter, some use of the Scream 4 distortion unit and 3 units from the MClass suite.

Sweet!

Duration : 0:10:24

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Emotional Distortion (Popof Remix)

April 42010

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MOS - Emotional Distortion (Popof Remix)

Label: Audio Therapy, [AT044]
Album: Emotional Distortion

v.02
MTDEVENTER

Duration : 0:7:18

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Providence DELAY 80’s Distortion Sound 1

April 12010

モデリングやシミュレーション技術では得られない、80年代のデ ジタルディレイにあった太く温かみのあるディレイサウンドを蘇ら せました。
The DELAY 80’s does not use the modeling or simulation type digital delay technology that has been developed in recent years.

Duration : 0:1:17

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Soundblox Pro Multiwave Distortion Demo

March 292010

find out more at: http://www.sourceaudio.net

Jeff McAlack goes through the features of the brand new Multiwave Distortion Pro from Source Audio.

Duration : 0:10:4

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What speakers, Sub and amplifier to buy?

March 272010

hi me again, after much toiling i cant seem to get my current sound system to perform how i want it to. As soon as my student loan comes in im going to buy 4 new speakers, a new subwoofer and amp (built in preferably). My head unit is probably the only thing that hasn’t gone wrong.

My question is what speakers and sub/amp to upgrade to, my budget is around £400 and i have only one need, to be able to listen to my music, loud of course without distortion, without clipping and must be decent quality output.

My restrictions are a small boot but should be able to fit some sub/amps in without a problem and speaker holes. I have 4 speakers currently in my car and i believe they are 13cm component speakers with tweeters in the doors, the holes should fit something a tiny bit bigger though.

what would people recommend? bearing in mind my budget and that i want loud music.. thanks.

If you want bass then get a Kicker. One is enough, you don’t need two of them.
If you want loudness(treble) then replace the door Speakers and rear speakers. Also if you have heard of 2-way 3-way and 4-way speakers, what it means is that there are 2 tweeters, or 3 or 4 inside the Single speaker(the more tweeters the louder and crisper). I have a 2002 Firebird and have one 12" L7 and 4 pioneer(3-way) Speakers and it is extremely loud. Pioneer has some really good speakers if your looking for sound quality and loudness. hope i helped. Oh and KENWOOD has really good amps too. Just whatever speakers you get you need to look on the box and see what the "peak watt" is so when you go to buy an amp make sure it has enough watts to power the speakers. any more questions feel free to email me and i can give you a more detailed explanation.

Suhr Riot Distortion pedal demo

March 262010

The awesome Suhr Riot Distortion pedal is a high-gain distortion box that will make a small clean tube combo sound like a raging stack. The eq switch enables 3 different voicings which give the pedal quite a different character, the far right setting tightens up the sound a little with its slight scooped sound.

As explained in the video I used my Suhr S4 into the Riot and then into a Genz Benz Black Pearl 30 112 amp and mic’d it up with an Audix i5 mic.

Duration : 0:5:39

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Distortion Pedal Shootout! ’80’s ProCo Rat v. early MI Audio Crunch Box

March 202010

Starts with distortion dimed. At 1:14 I dial them down to about 6, with various guitar vol/p.u. settings; at 3:00 I turn the distortion way down, then gradually toe them back up. At 5:40 the amp is turned up louder but not cranked, and the pedals are full on again, for harmonic feedback (audio in this section is just the camera mic). In all cases I had the pedal volumes set for unity gain, give or take. The Upstairs Critics at 8:16..

Playing a 1991 Fender USA Strat Plus with Fender-Lace Sensor pickups (neck/middle: gold; bridge: silver) into an ‘86-’88 ProCo Rat (the black pedal), then into MI Audio Crunch Box (the red pedal). Both pedals are true bypass so I daisy chained instead of using a/b switch. Then into a Pignose B100V amp head, into a Yamaha S412 4×12 cab loaded with Celestions.

For the first 5 minutes 40 seconds the amp is on about 5 (loud enough to play with a drummer–thus some of the unwanted feedback you hear early on, as I was standing two feet from the amp/speakers–single coil pickups are naturally pretty noisy, but neither pedal is noisier than the average distortion pedal; I’ll say the Crunch Box is slightly quieter than the Rat in actual use). All tone knobs on the amp are around 5 (approximately flat). Yes this is a bass head, a Dennis Kager designed clone of the famous Ampeg B15 flip top but with four 6L6 power tubes instead of two. It’s just a very solid clean tube head that passes the true tone of any guitar or bass right on through with minimal coloration, so I use it as much for guitar as for bass, and it’s ideal for comparing these pedals.

This Crunch Box is an early ‘06 model, before they added an internal trim pot to boost highs / cut lows and changed the volume and tone pots within weeks of release. So I have the volume in the bottom 1/4 of its range for unity gain (newer models have unity gain closer to the middle of the pot’s range evidently); I have the tone knob cranked to maximum treble…which on this pedal makes it just about a transparent (flat) EQ to my ears. If anything it still sounds like the treble is rolled off just slightly, which for distortion is fine with me, I don’t feel the need for any more treble or any less bottom. However in a mix I would cut some bottom at mixdown with EITHER pedal, to carve space for the kick drum and bass guitar.

Recorded with a Shure SM57 mic in my downstairs furnished living room. The mic is about four inches out from the speaker, halfway between the dome and the edge. Then to M-Audio DMP3 mic preamp, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card, to hard drive of HP Pavilion PC, using Cool Edit Pro 2.0 editing software. No compression, EQ, or other effects added beyond these pedals. The pedals themselves do add some compression when engaged, which is typical and even desirable for distortion pedals; and youtube presumably compresses audio to some degree even on the high quality setting.

After 5:40 is some raw footage earlier that day. The amp is turned up a little louder, thus the easier feedback action. You can also see the Pignose head sitting back there between the Marshall combo and the blueface Acoustic 150, in the plywood box I built for it. The audio in this section is from the built in mic on the Canon SD200 pocket camera I shot all this video with (great camera mic, I use it all the time to capture song ideas). I think I did have the midrange on the amp boosted some too in this later section.

Great pedals.

Duration : 0:8:31

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Soundblox Pro Multiwave Bass Distortion Demo

March 172010

find out more at: http://www.sourceaudio.net

Will Cady goes through the features of the brand new Multiwave Bass Distortion Pro from Source Audio.

Duration : 0:10:26

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