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Originally Posted by Softsynth
The thing I find annoying with many of these artificial distortion plugins (character compressors included) is that there rarely seems to be any kind of linear progress before very heavy or catastrophic distortion levels (levels I find mostly useless). So rather than being able to rack it up gently they go from inaudible to very severe and very little between.
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I guess it depends which plugins you mean, and what they are trying to achieve. A lot of analog modelled stuff can be hard to hear in the early onset of distortion and then quickly become ‘too much’ but that’s often true of the equipment they emulated.
If you’re looking for very smooth, gradual transitions into distortion I’d recommend Klanghelm SDRR, Fabfilter Saturn, any of the Slate Digital stuff, Toneboosters Reelbus (certainly 3, haven’t tried 4 yet), Audioassault XCTR, Elysia Phil’s Cascade.