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Samplecraze Harmonic Distortion

Samplecraze announced the release of their latest production video on the subject of Harmonic distortion:

According to Samplecraze, more and more producers are turning to tape saturation and valve driving to attain warmth and a full bodied texture for their production and sound design projects.

 

This video covers the theory and application behind harmonic distortion, with the following topics:

  • What is harmonic distortion? How does it occur in tape and valve based systems?
  • What are active gain stages?
  • What are odd and even harmonics and how do they affect the sound?
  • How to create odd and even harmonics and blend them to create new textures.
  • What is hysteresis?
  • What is bias?
  • What are triodes and pentodes and how do they affect harmonics?
  • What is tape saturation and how do you process it?
  • What are the characteristics of tape?
  • What is saturation compression?
  • What is magnetic threshold?
  • What are grids?
  • What are valves and how do they work?
  • How to use tape saturation and valves plugins (ferox/ psp vintage warmer/ psp tape sat2/ voxengo tube amp/ nomad tape warmer/christortion)

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