Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pedals. Distortion, originally considered an undesirable side effect of overloading audio equipment, has become a key element of ...

Mike Ness sat on the tiny stage of the Silverlake Lounge on Tuesday, Feb. 24 and thought for a minute about a question he’d just been asked by Brett Gurewitz, head of Epitaph Records. When “Born to ...

Distortion can be great for adding energy to your mix, and in this tutorial, we’re focusing on applying it to specific sounds When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Distortion comes in a huge range of slightly different forms, from subtle analogue warmth to extreme metal fuzz, mild digital imprecision to eardrum-bursting clipping. But what is distortion, what's ...

From Jimi Hendrix to Merzbow, artist-made music with distortion has become increasingly widespread over the past half-century, evolving from a niche genre to a mainstream one. A new UCLA-led study, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Arturia has been building out its collection of effects plugins over the last few years. One notable blind spot was distortion. It wasn't ...

We all know what distortion sounds like. We’ve heard it in heavy metal tunes, cheap iPod docks and the crummy speakers at Taco Bell drive-thrus. And we’ve all read distortion specs on things like ...

You probably don't have to guess what "Big Distortion," from guitar hero Joe Satriani's upcoming album Shapeshifting, sounds like. Or is about. By Gary Graff You probably don’t have to guess what “Big ...