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With more versatility than most, this is a superb harmonic-rich distortion pedal with a myriad of voices. (musicradar.com)
The Wampler Pinnacle is a distortion pedal that is designed to go from extreme gain to mild overdrive and just about everything in between. (elderly.com)
From subtle overdrives to wailing fuzzes, Electro-Harmonix offers a distortion pedal perfect for every player. (ehx.com)
I use a crappy MXR distortion (two knob kind) pedal that I found lying on the floor of our rehearsal area. (talkbass.com)
I play metal, rock, and industrial styles and happen to find this distortion my most used pedal of my whole pedalboard. (talkbass.com)
Fuzzed is an analogue modelling distortion plugin, using "state of the art" state-space modelling techniques to model the physical circuitry of the famous Jimi Hendrix guitar pedal and implement it as a VST plugin using the JUCE API. (kvraudio.com)
I was intrigued by the idea of a genuine tube distortion sound and decided to use the heart of the Anderton/Simonton tube circuit as the basis for this guitar distortion pedal project. (solorb.com)
This is because the rock guitarist uses an effects pedal which induces audible distortion onto the otherwise pretty clean guitar sound. (hackaday.com)
While this pedal can be used in almost any situation, it excels at creating natural tube-like overdrive distortion and pushing your amplifier into natural breakup. (stevesmusic.com)
What I'm asking is, does anyone think that the quality of an actual distortion/fuzz pedal sounds way better than the ones provided by the helix? (line6.com)

Touring behind the most lackluster album ( Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes ) in their otherwise spectacular catalog, Social Distortion dialed back to the classics right from the get-go, opening with "1945" followed by "Mommy's Little Monster. (ink19.com)
KTLA ) - Mike Ness, the lead singer of legendary California punk rock band Social Distortion , has revealed that he is battling stage-one tonsil cancer. (ktla.com)
He says the cancer diagnosis came during pre-production on a new Social Distortion album. (ktla.com)

For systems that produce both noise and nonlinear distortion, a minimum THD+N figure will be obtained at an input amplitude that produces an output comfortably above the noise floor, but below the levels at which significant distortion occurs. (uaudio.com)
Simply listening while running an harmonic or IM distortion test like that which produced the data encapsulated in Graph 3 and you'll also have before you a great opportunity to learn how to recognize the presence of nonlinear distortion, which manifests itself long before it becomes blatant or otherwise obvious, in this case, adding a harsh "edge" or gritty "sheen" to the driver's acoustic output. (audioholics.com)
What Hiraga was claiming, in short, is that certain patterns of nonlinear distortion are euphonic- ie , pleasant to the ear-and others not. (stereophile.com)
It was, and remains, a contentious extension of the Shorter-Wigan view because it embodies this idea that nonlinear distortion can sound nice, whereas the traditional view is that it can only ever sound nasty-to a reasonably educated ear, at any rate. (stereophile.com)

Harmonic distortion may be expressed in terms of the relative strength of individual components, in decibels, or the root mean square of all harmonic components: Total harmonic distortion (THD), as a percentage. (wikipedia.org)
THD stands for Total Harmonic Distortion and can be used to estimate the degree to which a system is nonlinear. (uaudio.com)
Many times, an estimate for THD is obtained by making what is called a Total Harmonic Distortion plus Noise, or THD+N measurement. (uaudio.com)
To anyone brought up on the notion, as I had been, that total harmonic distortion (THD) was a reliable measure of an amplifier's nonlinearity, this was a shocking proposal indeed. (stereophile.com)

Lens distortion is most noticable when straight lines run parallel to and near the edge of the frame. (the-digital-picture.com)
2/3 balance and lens distortion. (lu.se)

Amplitude distortion is distortion occurring in a system, subsystem, or device when the output amplitude is not a linear function of the input amplitude under specified conditions. (wikipedia.org)
Nonlinearities that give rise to amplitude distortion in audio systems are most often measured in terms of the harmonics (overtones) added to a pure sinewave fed to the system. (wikipedia.org)
For systems with crossover distortion, it is possible that relative THD levels will fall with increasing input amplitude. (uaudio.com)
When we look at non-linear distortion we are focusing on the ability of the driver to produce harmonics and/or intermodulation products in amplitude/frequency combinations that were not present in the signal originally fed to the driver. (audioholics.com)
Indeed, the amplitude of the non-linear distortion products increases more quickly than the increases in the drive voltage. (audioholics.com)
This, and later work at the BBC by E.R. Wigan (footnote 3), had shown that much better correlation between sound quality and harmonic distortion measurement was obtained if the amplitude of each harmonic were appropriately weighted before being summed into an overall distortion metric. (stereophile.com)
The first HP product was the HP200A, a high quality audio oscillator that famously had an incandescent bulb as a non-linear element in its circuitry as a means to stabilise the amplitude and thus reduce the distortion of its output. (hackaday.com)

Hearing was assessed with pure tone audiometry and distortion-produced otoacoustic emissions. (cdc.gov)

Harmonic distortion adds overtones that are whole number multiples of a sound wave's frequencies. (wikipedia.org)
The level at which harmonic distortion becomes audible depends on the exact nature of the distortion. (wikipedia.org)
Harmonic distortion in radio frequency applications is rarely expressed as THD. (wikipedia.org)
Tube distortion produces pleasant sounding even harmonics, contrast that with the scratchy odd-harmonic distortion (often called crunch) that comes from transistor/diode distortion circuits. (solorb.com)

Unlike many distortion pedals, the Fuzzy Firebottle can mix the clean signal with the distortion signal, this produces a much fatter sound with more dynamic range and tonal variety. (solorb.com)
The Ross Distortion is an op-amp hard clipper built around the classic 1970s topology seen in pedals like the MXR Distortion Plus, the DOD 250, the Proco RAT and the Boss DS-1. (stevesmusic.com)

Hello TalkBass distortion/overdrive/fuzz users! (talkbass.com)
My Yamaha bbt500h head has drive,heavy,fuzz, and distortion 'channels' or maybe it's just variations of the same with different eq settings. (talkbass.com)

Correlating subjective assessments of different amplifiers' sound qualities with their distortion spectra, Hiraga concluded that the ideal harmonic pattern displays progressively decreasing harmonic amplitudes, with even-order (second, fourth, sixth, etc.) and odd-order (third, fifth, seventh, etc.) harmonics all expressed. (stereophile.com)

If F is a linear function, for instance a filter whose gain and/or delay varies with frequency, the signal suffers linear distortion. (wikipedia.org)
Linear distortion does not introduce new frequency components to a signal but does alter the balance of existing ones. (wikipedia.org)
in passive components (such as a coaxial cable or optical fiber), linear distortion can be caused by inhomogeneities, reflections, and so on in the propagation path. (wikipedia.org)
Harmonic and intermodulation (IM) distortion are well known examples of non-linear distortion. (audioholics.com)
Non-linear distortion tends to be quite level-dependent. (audioholics.com)
As such, non-linear distortion levels - for a given input signal level - can be reduced by employing multiple drivers (such as found Wilson Audio's Alexandria or Puppy or the RBH Signature T-2 System ) though you'll then have to take into design consideration lobing, extra cost, etc. (audioholics.com)
In this case, experimentation can provide a great deal of insight where it comes subjectively assessing the presence and overall influence of non-linear distortion. (audioholics.com)
When we investigate linear distortion, it's useful to think of the driver as a system, having resonances and capable of storing energy, which is released over a time, ex post facto. (audioholics.com)
The generation of new tones is not a feature of linear distortion. (audioholics.com)

The geometric distortion solution for the ACS/WFC has been derived employing a 5th order polynomial least squares solution combined with a new representation of the ACS/WFC linear terms time dependency. (stsci.edu)
This model also includes additional distortions on the top of the ACS/WFC geometric distortion, such as the pixel grid distortion imprinted by the manufacturing process and the non-polynomial filter dependent component of the distortion. (stsci.edu)
A comparison of the HST coordinate system used to generate the geometric distortion solution to GAIA DR1 is detailed in ACS ISR 2018-01 , including an exploration of offsets between the two coordinate systems that need to be corrected with the greater precision of GAIA DR2. (stsci.edu)
The ACS/WFC geometric distortion and its time dependent corrections are corrected through the application of 3 reference files (IDCTAB, D2IMFILE and NPOLFILE) which are not applied by the normal CALACS processing. (stsci.edu)
Contains unique chip-dependent geometric distortion coefficients for every filter in one FITS table. (stsci.edu)
Magnetic Resonance (MR) images can have significant geometric distortion due to unintended errors in the magnetic fields used in the scanners. (aaai.org)

Different types of distortion (like crossover distortion) are more audible than others (like soft clipping) even if the THD measurements are identical. (wikipedia.org)

Distortion is the audible, unwanted by-product of the electro-mechanical-acoustical transduction process. (audioholics.com)

Behringer today shared a sneak preview of their CZ-1, a portable synth inspired by the classic Casio CZ-1 Phase Distortion synthesizer. (synthtopia.com)
The examples show case the guitar tones produced, with an additional example showing the use of Fuzzed to add analogue distortion to a synth + verb as a return/aux effect. (kvraudio.com)

For instance, the classic objectivist dismissal of a stated preference for tube amplifiers is that the listener likes the distortion they produce. (stereophile.com)

Reworked version of a lecture held at ECHT - Quenching and Distortion Engineering QDE 2021, 26. (degruyter.com)

and second I've got an original marshall guv'nor with an input cap mod , I use it for mild grit.both are installed into the marshall and everything is true bypass with relays when I kick both on I get heavier distortions and third I've got my russian muff for going wild! (talkbass.com)

Use of Fuzzed as a return effect can add beautiful analogue distortion to your sounds without losing the original tonal content. (kvraudio.com)

The new method, created by Panasonic engineer Nobuhiko Wakai, uses "learning-based calibration" to address tilt angle, roll angle, focal length, and distortion in-camera. (videomaker.com)

Note that the phase of the sine wave is different for the lowpass and the highpass cases, due to the phase distortion of the filters. (wikipedia.org)
This video series takes an in-depth look at the Casio CZ-1, the flagship of its 80's CZ line of Phase Distortion synthesizers. (synthtopia.com)
UVI has released Cameo, a suite of instruments for UVI Workstation, inspired by the classic 80's Casio CZ phase distortion synthesizers. (synthtopia.com)
Retronyms has released Phase84 - described as 'a next generation phase distortion synthesizer', inspired by the classic phase distortion synthesis sounds of the Casio CZ line of synths. (synthtopia.com)
Phase distortion synthesis is a form of waveshaping synthesis that has its roots in Casio's CZ line of digital synthesizers from the 80s. (synthtopia.com)

Non-flat frequency response is a form of distortion that occurs when different frequencies are amplified by different amounts in a filter. (wikipedia.org)
Then depending on the effect/distortion we have, we can tweak different parameters, using the audio frequencies which constantly change overtime. (tympanus.net)
If you apply distortion to that sine wave, the spectrum analyser would start to show peaks at other frequencies depending on what type of distortion is being applied. (hackaday.com)

The Advanced Gain Structure section changes the character of the distortion via a gain knob, a boost switch is present for even more gain, and a Bright/Even switch lets you set your tonal preference. (musicradar.com)

Distortion is also used as a musical effect, particularly with electric guitars. (wikipedia.org)

The designer of the instrument thus has several significant hurdles to overcome, because not only must their oscillator and filter be as near perfect as can be attained, but the rest of their analogue signal chain must not contribute to the distortion being measured. (hackaday.com)

The addition of noise or other outside signals (hum, interference) is not considered distortion, though the effects of quantization distortion are sometimes included in noise. (wikipedia.org)
It uses econometrics to estimate the political economy reasons behind the pattern of distortions across countries, commodities, and over time, and the inequality, poverty, and other economic effects of current versus alternative policy regimes for individual countries. (worldbank.org)
I was researching the web for electric guitar distortion effects when I came across some interesting articles on vacuum tube preamps by John Simonton on the PAiA.com site. (solorb.com)
Some experiments that show how to make audio-based distortion effects on images with p5.js and its sound library. (tympanus.net)
Press Quenching and Effects of Prior Thermal History on Distortion during Heat Treatment. (degruyter.com)
There were significant gradient distortions, with strong between-group effects in the somatosensory network and moderate effects in the higher-order default-mode network , which were significantly correlated with the gene expression profiles (r = 0.3171). (bvsalud.org)

According to 2018 research , self-report data suggests that cognitive distortions are more commonly seen in people with depression than those without. (psychcentral.com)

More details on the updated distortion correction can be found in ACS ISR 2015-06 . (stsci.edu)
A 2-D (two dimensional) correction for ACS/WFC pixel grid distortion in X and Y which is bilinearly interpolated within the DrizzlePac/STSDAS software. (stsci.edu)
Therefore, it can be used to test the effectiveness of MR spatial distortion correction methods in tise. (aaai.org)

Likening the Gaza Strip, governed by the terrorist organization Hamas, to the Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were confined by the Nazis before being transported to death camps as part of the systematic massacre of six million Jews during the Holocaust, or comparing the Israel Defense Forces to the Nazi army (Wehrmacht), is Holocaust distortion. (ajc.org)

Even framing a scene level is difficult with distortion in the viewfinder. (the-digital-picture.com)
not the absolute level of that distortion but its pattern. (stereophile.com)
The tilt of the lens informs the level of distortion in images. (videomaker.com)
Once you get to the end of the Distortion World after completing the Strength Puzzle, you will go down to the bottom level and find Cyrus. (serebii.net)

Distortion occurs when the transfer function F is more complicated than this. (wikipedia.org)

The Hammertone™ Distortion delivers the legendary distorted tones you need for nearly any style of music. (fender.com)
A distortion free lens delivers a better final image. (the-digital-picture.com)
It's suggested that you read Linear Technologies app note 43 , in which Jim Williams delivers a comprehensive introduction to this topic, and then Cheng-We Pei's note on a low distortion oscillator using an RMS-to-DC converter in its feedback loop. (hackaday.com)

ACS/WFC images suffer from extreme geometric distortions due to the optical assembly of the telescope. (stsci.edu)
If there are no straight lines in the frame, it may be difficult to see any effect of the distortion in your images. (the-digital-picture.com)
Generally, processing and correcting distortion requires multiple images and a computer. (videomaker.com)

Employing both old and new technology, we produce distortions to expand the range of your tonal palette. (ehx.com)

In a standard driver, distortion arises as a consequence of suspension compliance (Cms(x)), force factor (Bl(x)), and inductance (Le(x) nonlinearities. (audioholics.com)
It's useful to keep in mind that even-order distortion products are caused by asymmetrical driver system nonlinearities and conversely, odd-order distortion products are caused by symmetrical driver system nonlinearities. (audioholics.com)

Contrary to some previous databases watermarking techniques which cause some distortions in the original database and may not preserve the data usability constraints, our approach simply seeks to generate the watermark from the original database. (hindawi.com)
Here we generate a synthetic sex distortion system by exploiting the specificity of the homing endonuclease I-PpoI, which is able to selectively cleave ribosomal gene sequences of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae that are located exclusively on the mosquito's X chromosome. (nature.com)

A wide variety of distortion sounds can be created by adjusting the controls. (solorb.com)
You're probably used to distortion in music, while a classical guitar sounds like a string being plucked, a rock guitar sounds… angry . (hackaday.com)

This idea forms the basis of subsequent steps to reduce oscillator distortion, with improved feedback and AGC circuits. (hackaday.com)

That is, if you include distortion figures amongst the criteria used in rendering your component purchase decisions. (audioholics.com)

Software can be used to straighten your lines - removing the distortion from the image (though wave distortion is harder to correct). (the-digital-picture.com)

In this case, the distortion is presumed to have a pleasant but still detrimental effect on fidelity, which isn't the same as Hiraga's contention that particular patterns of distortion actually enhance fidelity. (stereophile.com)

In some situations, however, distortion may be desirable. (wikipedia.org)
Therefore, the infraorbital nerve block is a convenient alternative for situations such as facial lacerations in which tissue distortion would be unacceptable. (medscape.com)

Some types of photography can tolerate distortion better than others. (the-digital-picture.com)
No matter what you've heard them called, over the years, mental health experts have outlined several types of cognitive distortions and how they relate to symptoms of depression and anxiety . (psychcentral.com)
Today, there's no definitive list of cognitive distortions, though some research recognizes up to 17 types. (psychcentral.com)
Wakai and his team "propose a generic camera model that has the potential to address various types of distortion. (videomaker.com)

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog called Netanyahu's remarks "distortion of history" on his Facebook page. (ynetnews.com)

The annual time series of estimates of the extent of agricultural price distortions in both advanced and developing economies is now updated every six months by The International Organisations Consortium for Measuring the Policy Environment for Agriculture, which includes the World Bank, and is freely accessible at www.ag-incentives.org . (worldbank.org)
The novel method, designed by an engineer at Panasonic, estimates and corrects fisheye distortion with a device like a smartphone or a camera. (videomaker.com)

When you approach upon the end of the Distortion World, you will start seeing the pixies (Mesprite, Azelf & Uxie) who will offer you help on what to do. (serebii.net)

This "pulse distortion" can be very significant when a train of pulses must pass through an AC-coupled (high-pass filtered) amplifier. (wikipedia.org)

Even the human hearing mechanism can inject distortion into the perceived acoustical signals! (audioholics.com)

Pincushion distortion is the opposite effect. (the-digital-picture.com)
People have no straight lines - and may even appreciate a little thinning effect from pincushion distortion. (the-digital-picture.com)

These are cognitive distortions at work, and while everyone has them, those of us living with depression often know them too well. (psychcentral.com)
Objetive: Based on distortion factors of the radiographies, the aim of the present work was to calculate the location and degree of distortion of this technique in the region of mandibular foramen (MF). (bvsalud.org)

If you are using one of the the APS-C DSLR camera bodies (and don't plan to move to a full frame body in the near future), you can disregard the distortion results outside of the gray frame. (the-digital-picture.com)

Following are four distortion examples - use the links below the image to see the designated distortion type. (the-digital-picture.com)
Present in every electro-mechanical-acoustical transducer ever built, yet infrequently does one find information (let alone useful information) that describe the type and degree of distortion presented by the transducer. (audioholics.com)

Surprisingly, the notion of euphonic distortion is widely held in the audio world, even among those who would normally be classified as staunch objectivists. (stereophile.com)
Distortion in an audio device is measured by looking at these extra peaks in the spectrum, and is expressed as either a dB value or a percentage indicating their relative strength compared to that of the original signal. (hackaday.com)

However, attempts to assess the suitability of such natural distorter strains for controlling caged mosquito populations revealed that the degree of distortion was insufficient to achieve population suppression 5 . (nature.com)

Despite endless historical facts, Holocaust denial and distortion spread the false idea that Jews invented or exaggerated the Holocaust, including the diary of Anne Frank, Nazism's intent to massacre Jews, the use of gas chambers in concentration camps, and the murder of millions of Jews. (ajc.org)
The idea is that the filtered signal returns only the component of the output which is due to the distortion, and thus can be compared to the full figure to derive that relative figure. (hackaday.com)

In signal processing, distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of a signal. (wikipedia.org)
The input signal is a pure sinusoid, while the output signal has several low-order distortion components totaling about 31% THD. (uaudio.com)

Distortion Minimization of Bevel Gear Press Quench Hardening Process Using Computer Modeling. (degruyter.com)
Measuring distortion is a superficially simple process, but in practice constructing an instrument to do so effectively is not an easy task. (hackaday.com)
While the reprogramming process could help to rectify some of the distortions in the funding of the budget, the ongoing financing dialogue is expected to further improve alignment of funding with the approved programme budget. (who.int)

a ) Proposed model for the distortion of the reproductive sex ratio towards males based on meiotic X shredding. (nature.com)

Distortion related corrections are instead applied in the DrizzlePac software that uses these reference files to remove distortions, populate the image header WCS keywords (linear terms) and populate SIP coefficients (high order terms). (stsci.edu)
Barrel distortion appears as a bulge in the center of the image. (the-digital-picture.com)

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