totally agree with OP I’d like a distortion or overdrive effect added, great to blend in on a blues harp, also like pitch shift for vocal effect cant see either happening seems no updates for QU
Goes with out saying, the electric guitar created an entire industry building products
to distort it and to a lesser degree the electric bass. A little crunch on a bass in the right song at the right place can work.
I love to add some Drive, as called by EBS, on upright bass or electric bass signals. That makes the tone a lot more creamy. But not only these instruments are candidates for a little bit of distortion. Saxes, Keys and so on and so forth. So, yes a little bit more distortion or similar kind of effects would be nice anyway.
At the risk of stirring up old wounds. I came across this as I am trying (maybe incorrectly) to add harmonics to a bass guitar so it can be better perceived by those listening to our service online via tablets, laptops, etc.
I can’t get the overdrive/harmonics out of the built in FX and there’s no clean way for an external insert in mixes.
Would be nice if there was a way to upload a custom FX library…
I am curious. Just why do you need distortion to add ‘character’?Color me very olde school but I always tried to get rid of distortion not add it.
Harmonic distortion is different from the “crunchy” distortion that I think you have in your mind. We aren’t talking about the type of distortion that comes from a blown speaker for example. The “warmth” that analog gear is known for is really harmonic distortion that was inherent to the hardware being used. If you are “old school” enough to have grown up on analog gear, then you were using and benefiting from harmonic distortion without realizing it.
When things went to digital, the sound got very clean and lost all this harmonic distortion. It’s why people hated the original digital consoles - they sounded too clean and sterile. Ever since we have been trying to add back in that “warmth” that is lost in the digital realm. Some digital console manufactures (like Midas) add back in their own “coloring” (ir harmonic distortion) and other manufactures (Digico) purposely create the cleanest, most “transparent” signals. The more clean/transparent a signal is, the more you are going to find engineers using hardware or plugins to add harmonic distortion back into the system.