“Gorgon is a savage distortion plugin with FM Ring Modulation, Metalizer Delay, Samplerate Reduction and Lowpass/Highpass Filters thrown into the signal path. It also features a modulation section based on a signal follower, and an 8x oversampling option to reduce aliasing, all in a clean single-panel interface designed by Barry Prendergast. Size 9.4 MB / 2.9 MB Contrast Distortion is a digital distortion. It is designed to heavily distort soundwaves with a variety of parameters, and allows the user to take. CHARACTER Distortion VST Effects 318 Views. Analog distortion is more forgiving in how it distorts when compared to digital. Let’s go over the best free and paid distortion effect VST plugins of the year 2020. This one comes free with Computer Music magazine, and provides crunchy, tube-style distortion, plus a three-band EQ with low, mid and high bands, and a clear, easy-to-use interface. Useful for gentle colouring or more obvious distortion, depending how hard you push the Gain control. Audiffex STA Enhancer CM.

You would find an updated list of free and paid distortion plugins on this page for your distortion needs in your preferred DAW.

Over-using might destroy your mixes!

Face Bender (Free Distortion VST Plugin)
Uh!Face Bender can actually bend & skew your face (joking off course!) This is a plugin by Distorque Audio that emulates a Fuzz Face and a Tone Bender MKII with added controls for tweaking. It runs in mono or stereo and has selectable 2x oversampling. it only works with PC!The Fuzz Face was first made by Arbiter ...
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Temper – (Free Open Source Distortion VST Plugin)
Temper is a modern digital distortion plugin by the Team at Creative Intent, it features a rich saturation stage and a unique phase distortion. You can use the variable saturation curve to add warmth and edge to your sound and let the phase distortion bring character and clarity through your mix.It also features a simple resonant ...
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Krush (Free Bit Crusher Plugin)
Krush comes featured with a bit crushing and downsampling algorithms, plus the combination of a crispy taste of the digital realm with the warmth of its drive stage and analog modeled resonant filters.A modulation section allows you to quickly add extra life to the sound by modulating any parameter.The sound palette produced by Krush ranges from ...
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The Best Free & Paid [Distortion Effects] VST/AU/AAX Plugin [2020]
When I first get started with music production, I wonder why some music producers would want to mess with a distortion effect in their tracks, perhaps, I initially have an understanding that there is a limit for how loud an audio signal can be, once this limit is reached, it would distort and produce an ...
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Rangebastard (Free Distortion Treble Booster Plugin)
When it comes to emulating distortion effects, I give Distorque Audio 90% rating, and now they present Rangebastard which is an emulation of a Dallas Rangemaster with added controls for tweaking or for use as a full-range booster, an overdrive, and more. Also, it supports both mono, and stereo, and has 2x oversampling.About RangematserThe Rangemaster ...
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Here’s a list of the best 16 distortion/saturation/fuzzplugins available to download for free!

Let’s get straight into it…

FuzzPlus 3 by Audio Damage (Windows, Mac)

FuzzPlus 3 is an updated version of the original FuzzPluspedal emulation which is a straight up fuzz-sounding effect and not so much ofa distortion- or saturation one.

The interface is super intuitive and it offers five simplecontrol parameters.

It also features a spectrum analyzer that shows you theamount of clipping going on.

All in all, I think FuzzPlus 3 might be a great addition toyour plugin arsenal.

You can download it here.

Related: Here’s a huge list of the Best Free VST Plugins ever.

Krush by Tritik (Windows, Mac)

Krush combines the crispy taste of the digital realm withthe warmth of its drive stage and analog modeled resonant filters.

A modulation section allows you to quickly add extra life tothe sound by modulating any parameter.

The range of sounds you can achieve with this plugin go allthe way from extremely dirty signals to crunchy and warm ones.

Features

Crunchy drive stage
Bit depth reduction
Sample rate reduction
Analog modeled resonant filters (low-pass andhigh-pass)

Free Vst Plugin Distortion Tool

You can download it here.

Interested in free Synth vst plugins? Here’s an entire post on that topic.

Temper Distortion by Creative Intent (Windows, Mac)

Temper is a modern digital distortion plugin featuring arich saturation stage and a unique phase distortion.

Use the variable saturation curve to add warmth and edge toyour sound, and let the phase distortion bring character and clarity throughyour mix.

Temper also features a simple resonant lowpass filter and afeedback path to drive the intensity of the tone.

This is by far one of the best distortion plugins available,even when compared to premium ones.

You can download it here.

Related: Here’s a list of the best free Arpeggiator Plugins.

SGA1566 by Shattered Glass Audio (Windows, Mac)

SGA1566 brings the authentic tone of a single channelvintage all tube mic preamplifier.

The whole circuit is simulated in real time using the highperformance circuit simulator to recreate every nuance of the preamp circuit,from subtle coloration to overdrive and distortion.

Use SGA1566 to add warmth to a track, as a saturationcompressor, or to add “dirt” with tube overdrive.

Features

Authentic analog sound through real-timehigh-performance circuit simulation.
Two-band active Baxandall EQ that can be placedeither before or after the preamp.
Up to 4x oversampling.
Mono or stereo processing mode.

You can download it here.

Interested in free compression VST plugins? Here’s a post about the 12 best ones.

Tube Saturator Vintage by Wave Arts (Windows, Mac)

Tube Saturator Vintage uses circuit simulation technology tofaithfully reproduce the sound of a dual triode preamp.

While it sounds great, the circuit simulation technology isvery CPU intensive…

That’s why they released the Tube Saturator 2, which sadlyisn’t free but it goes much easier on the CPU.

The reason it uses so much of your CPU’s power is becauseTube Saturator uses state of the art circuit simulation technology to captureevery nuance of an analog circuit.

Basically, it sounds fantastic… at the expense of using moreof your CPU’s resources than other Saturators.

You can download it here.

Related: Here’s a list of the best free Delay VST Plugins.

Saturation Knob by Softube (Windows, Mac)

The saturation knob is literally one knob that allows you toadd some warmth and shimmer to the vocals, guitar, and any other track you’dlike…

Basically, it just adds volume and warmth.

Just don’t go overboard with the saturation, if it startssounding distorted, dial it back down a bit… unless that’s what you’re goingfor.

One huge issue I have with this plugin is not the pluginitself, but all the hoops they make you jump through to be able to use it.

You have to register with them, also register with ilok.comand then link those accounts…

AFTER that, I know… super annoying, you download the gobblerapp and install the plugin, now you can finally use it!

I have to say though, it’s worth the trouble!

You can download it here.

Looking for free guitar VST plugins? Here are the 15 best ones.

Metal Area mt-a by Mercuriall (Windows, Mac)

The Mercuriall Metal Area mt-a is based on the Boss MT-2,which is a super popular distortion pedal.

The funny thing is that most people think that it doesn’treally sound all that great…

However, in the right hands, some pretty cool tones can beachieved.

This just means that some tweaking is required in order toget a good sound out of the pedal, and this is also the case with this plugin.

It comes with controls for Level, Dist, High, Low,Middle, MidFreq, Input Gain, Mono/Stereo, Quality switch andan On/Off knob.

If you’re in need of a distortion plugin that will allow youto create some cool metal tones, then by all means check this one out.

You can download it here.

Face Bender (Free Distortion VST Plugin)

Temper – (Free Open Source Distortion VST Plugin)

Krush (Free Bit Crusher Plugin)

The Best Free & Paid [Distortion Effects] VST/AU/AAX Plugin [2020]

Rangebastard (Free Distortion Treble Booster Plugin)

FuzzPlus 3 by Audio Damage (Windows, Mac)

Krush by Tritik (Windows, Mac)

Features

Free Vst Plugin Distortion Tool

Temper Distortion by Creative Intent (Windows, Mac)

SGA1566 by Shattered Glass Audio (Windows, Mac)

Features

Tube Saturator Vintage by Wave Arts (Windows, Mac)

Saturation Knob by Softube (Windows, Mac)

Metal Area mt-a by Mercuriall (Windows, Mac)