Distorters / Saturators

Strymon’s reputation for making top‑quality digital effects pedals is second to none, but now they’ve made some of their creations available as DAW plug‑ins.

The latest pedal from Warm Audio pays homage to one of the all‑time pedalboard favourites, the Fulltone OCD pedal.

For the first time, the Red and Blue bands of RND’s popular Silk circuit can be used together in the same device — but there’s more to the MBT than purple Silk!

Still searching for an ‘always on’ overdrive that works with your guitar’s volume control turned up or backed off? Your search might be over...

This dual‑distortion box is equally at home with guitars,synths and drum machines, on a dusted‑daily desktop or a filthy stage pedalboard...

Plamen is a five‑band saturator, in which each band can be processed using one of five different saturation algorithms.

With the KD1 saturation effect, McDSP show that their analogue plug‑in system can deliver more than just dynamics processing.

Designed in collaboration with the JHS Pedals team, EHX’s Lizard Queen is a slightly unusual distortion pedal...

As a traditional bus compressor, this plug‑in sounds great — but there’s much more to it than that!

These audio examples accompany the SOS June 2023 review of the Punishr analogue harmonic distortion 500-series module by Malcolm Toft.

Controllable carnage is the name of the game, but the Punishr can do warmth and subtlety too!

Magma offers a one‑stop shop for analogue‑style attitude and warmth.

This deceptively simple plug‑in has been designed to blend ‘nice’ and ‘nasty’ saturation any way you need it.

Freqport’s innovative desktop box makes adding valve warmth to your DAW mixes as easy as loading a plug‑in.

Want to use a real Big Muff Pi in your DAW session? With this one, you can just plug and go...

Launched in 1994, the original Klon Centaur Professional Overdrive pedal was surely the product that paved the way for today’s vibrant ‘boutique’ guitar‑pedal market.

Warmdrive replicates the sound of the original, ‘classic’ version of the pedal design that helped create the whole ‘Dumble‑in‑a‑box’ concept.

Origin Effects’ new Halcyon Green Overdrive pedal is based on the classic Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer.

Arturia’s new distortion processor is good for much more than just a bit of dirt and fuzz!

The Design‑A‑Drive is the first pedal that allows you to really substantially tune its overdrive characteristics to match the requirements of a large range of amps.

MTurboAmp lets you build pretty much any amp or distortion pedal you want!