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Distortion

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Essentials

Tube adds warm overdrive with Drive, Tone, and Gain controls. Use it for subtle saturation or heavy distortion on guitars, synths, or drums. Perfect for adding warmth, crunch, or aggressive distortion to any sound source.
  1. Drive, tone, and gain controls
  2. Subtle saturation to heavy distortion
  3. Warm tube character
  4. Use as main effect, saturator, or clean boost

Controls

On/Off Activates or bypasses the tube effect
Drive Amount of overdrive (0 to 100%). Higher values create more saturation and distortion.
Gain Output level after drive. Compensates for level changes and controls final output volume.
Tone Warmer (left) to brighter (right) (0 to 100%). Adjusts the tonal character of the tube saturation.

Practical Tips

Practical Tips

  • Smooth blues: low Drive, Tone centered, slight Gain.
  • Crunchy rock: Drive 60–80%, Tone slightly right, Gain as needed.
  • Aggressive lead: max Drive, Tone far right, high Gain.
  • Booster: low Drive, high Gain.

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