Copyright© 2000 by David Billen
You may distribute Blood OverDrive freely and without restrictions, AS LONG AS NO PART OF THE DISTRIBUTION FILES ARE UNCHANGED FROM THE STATE THEY WERE IN WHEN DAVID BILLEN PUBLISHED THEM. Any version of Blood Overdrive that is distributed with altered code, or a changed or missing document file, (this file), is in violation of international copyright laws.
Blood OverDrive is a plug-plug – meaning
– it’s free of charge, it only exists to let people know about
SimSynth
2 – the fattest sounding softsynth period! Check it out at http://ellisdee.onestop.net
!
WHAT’S BLOOD OVERDRIVE?
Blood overdrive is a distorter that is specially designed for the needs of digital-audio musicians – not guitar players.
Blood provides overdrive distortion and
handles it using classic techniques that give it the sweetest possible
sound. Mushy, compressed, fuzzy – not grating and harsh. Any guitar player
would love to hook it to an amp. But - Blood is also married to a band-pass
filter. This gives you the ability to overdrive non-guitar audio that would
normally turn ugly.
WHAT DO THE KNOBS DO?
WHAT USES ARE THERE
FOR BLOOD OVERDRIVE?
ISN’T DISTORTION
JUST DISTORTION?
There’s actually a number of different
types of distortion which are used by musicians. The most accepted and
useful type of distortion, (which Blood uses), is overdrive distortion.
This is simply the distortion, which occurs when you turn up something
so loud that it can’t go any louder.
IF OVERDRIVE DISTORTION IS JUST TURNING UP THE VOLUME TOO LOUD FOR SOMETHING TO HANDLE – WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?
You hear a different result depending on
how the "thing being overdriven" responds. Metal guitar players have made
both a science and a religion out of this. (Most of them divide overdrive
into two categories: That which is produced by a brand of amplifier called
a Marshall, and all others). Blood uses the techniques from the best guitar
amps which sound great on all types of audio.
WHAT DOES A BAND PASS FILTER HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?
There’s a simple rule: The broader the frequency range in a signal, the worse it sounds when you overdrive it, (or apply any type of distortion to it for that matter). This is the main reason that guitars always sound great distorted, but when you try to apply distortion to most digital tracks they sound awful. Guitars put out only about a two octave range at a time, (and often when playing overdriven styles all six strings are not even used, so it’s less than that).
Internally, Blood strips your audio into
smaller frequency bands, then overdrives and clips them independently.
This helps the problem a lot, but just isn’t always enough. That’s why
there’s a band pass filter, which is available to reduce the frequency
range of the audio.
TIPS FOR GETTING THE BEST SOUND
QUESTIONS AND INFO
Contact David Billen by emailing dbillen@home.com, (click here if your internet connection is active).