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Notice that there is more high frequency content in the square wave, even though the same note is being played. With this knowledge, we can say that distortion adds harmonics to a signal, and thus higher frequency content. This can have negative or positive impacts on your mix, depending on where and when distortion occurs or is used. The key is understanding why you may want distortion in certain situations and not others.

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Analog and digital systems tend to distort differently and have different sonic qualities. Analog distortion can actually have a relatively pleasing sound due to the way the circuitry handles the overloaded signal, or the way magnetic recording tape saturates. Digital distortion, on the other hand, tends to sound harsh and brittle as the signal is handled in a more extreme manner. When starting out, every producer and mix engineer runs into unwanted distortion.

You may find distortion occurring at a channel in your project, or at your master channel. Is the signal itself crossing the threshold of distortion? This can often happen in the case of recording vocals or an instrument.

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This gives you more control over the distortion, and will ultimately sound better and more professional. Unfortunately, the only solution here is to re-record. The software simply recorded that distorted signal.

Below is a picture of a recorded guitar track in Ableton. As you can see, the guitarist played a bit too loud on one note around 0: In the next pictures, I zoomed in on the note in the Sample Editor to show how the peaks have been compressed, and are not as rounded as the rest of the recording. You can easily prevent this problem in the recording stage. While they do this or after you do this yourself , check to see if the incoming signal is distorting.

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If so, turn the gain knob down on your interface and turn the gain up in your software since this will be after the audio is captured. The original signal can distort in other circumstances as well. In the case of software instruments, most if not all of them have a master volume knob, and usually a meter showing the volume of your signal. Below are some pictures of this knob and meter in the red on two common synths, Massive and Serum.

Treat this knob the same as you would treat an input gain knob on an interface. If the synth is distorting, turn it down until the signal no longer distorts, and compensate at the channel fader to make for up the lost volume. As a result, the signal may be louder after a plugin, and eventually distort if it crosses the threshold of distortion. Even if a later plugin in the chain brings the volume down again, you are only decreasing the volume of an already distorted signal just like in the previous example. I mostly work in Ableton Live, and monitor this issue with the help of the volume faders attached to each plugin.

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In the below example, see how one of the plugin faders has gone into the red, but not the other? The signal crossed the TOD after this compressor, distorting in the process. Even though I have a utility plugin bringing the signal gain back down after it, the distortion has already occurred. Thankfully, most processors have a built-in gain knob, which can be turned down to avoid signal exceeding the TOD. This one is pretty self-explanatory. If your signal exceeds 0dB on a channel fader, it may start to distort.

Problems may occur if the signal leaves the processing chain close to the TOD and the volume fader is set above 0dB. To avoid distortion at the channel fader, first take care of the levels coming out of your plugins. Then simply watch your meters as you work and keep your signal out of the red.

Without getting too deep into the specifics of digital audio, some plugins and DAWs have a high bit-depth and do not distort at the expected level.



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Ableton Live, for example has a high bit-depth. As a result, though the volume meters on plugins and channel faders may go into the red, distortion will not actually occur. In Ableton, this applies to the channel faders and the native plugins, but not the master fader , which can audibly distort when crossing 0dB.

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Certain third-party plugins, like Massive and Serum, also do not distort due to supporting a high bit-depth. However , not all plugins or DAWs react this way. Some will distort, and in an analog setting the scenarios mentioned above will often result in distortion. Distortion at the master fader follows the same ideas as distortion at channel faders.

If the summed level of your channel faders exceeds the TOD at the master channel, the same distortion occurs. If you find your master channel in the red, you can solve this by decreasing the level of all other channels by the same amount. Highlight all channels apart from the master channel, and attenuate everything said amount.

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This will turn down the overall level going into the master channel while preserving the balance of the mix. As I mentioned before, when signal crosses the TOD of a system it is compressed down to that level. Thus, distortion is really another form of compression. See How to Mix Music Part 2: The TOD is the compression threshold, and the ratio of this compression is essentially infinity: The attack would be 0 seconds, as the signal is compressed instantly.

When looking at distortion this way, we can see that hard compression can cause similar destruction of the waveform. Be conscientious about your compression settings, as they may cause signals to distort. Now we get to the good stuff! How can we use distortion to our benefit? We now understand that distortion adds upper harmonics or higher frequency content to a signal. A Place in the Caribbean Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Lauren Curran Brendan Fletcher Russell Curran Vicellous Shannon Phillip Starks John Cusack Vernon Sarsfield Nicole Anthony Margo Ingram Oliver Rice Lance Geyer Gigi Jackman Beatrice Landry Benjamin DeWalt Tim Hoyle Angela Quinn Ali Ingram Barry Nerling Razor-Cut Man Robert Fraser Edit Storyline A year-old woman suffering from bipolar disorder comes to suspect the proprietor of the state-of-the-art ''smart apartment'' she and her husband just moved into is using the building's residents as unwitting guinea pigs for a ''synthetic telepathy'' brainwashing plot with dire global ramifications.

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