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MIXING & EFFECTS
Fruity Blood Overdrive
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 Fruity Blood Overdrive is
a distortion FX, specially designed for the needs of digital-audio
musicians. It provides overdrive distortion using classic
techniques that give compressed and soft sounds, as opposed to the
harsh sound produced by many overdrive plugins. This FX works
particularly well with Guitar sounds. The integrated bandpass
filter gives the ability to overdrive non-guitar audio that would
otherwise produce poor results.
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Parameters
- PreBand - Sets the amount of band filtering
that is applied to the audio before it is overdriven. Use this to
improve the effect quality that may result from overdriving audio
with a broad frequency range.
- Color - Sets the frequency of the band
filtering.
- PreAmp - Overdrives the audio in order to
achieve distortion. As you increase the PreAmp parameter, you need
to compensate with the PostGain knob.
- x100 - Increases the power of PreAmp a hundred
times. This is normally only useful on single instrumental
tracks.
- PostFilter - The preamplified audio is
low-pass filtered at the frequency specified by this wheel. This is
another option for cleaning up the distortion.
- PostGain - Final gain reducer (at maximum
leaves the gain at its original level after distortion). The
preamplifier boosts the output considerably, so you need to
compensate with this parameter.
Tips and Notes
- The order in which the filters are applied is: Band Pass Filter
(PreBand) > Preamplifier (PreAmp) > 2-Pole Low Pass Filter
(PostFilter) > Reduce Gain (PostGain) > Final Digital
Clipping.
- If the output is too loud, do not try to reduce the input to
the plugin, reduce it with PostGain (otherwise it will remove the
distortion).
- After the audio has been preamplified and clipped, the signal
still can be up to 300% out of range. When it is clipped after
PostGain, normal, (harsh sounding), digital clipping is used.
Therefore, a better sound is achieved if you take care to always
compensate for PreAmp by reducing PostGain.
- Playing a mix through the plugin, (even without preamplifying),
causes upward compression on the independent frequency bands. This
gives overall upward compression and flattens the equalizer. This
can be used to improve some mixes, and can even be used to master
some projects (the compression is caused by non-linear signal
response similar to vacuum tube compressors).
Plugin Credits: David Billen
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