AMP vs Saturation and Distortion. What's the basic diffence?

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romariozen
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AMP vs Saturation and Distortion. What's the basic diffence?

Post by romariozen » Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:27 pm

AMP distorts the sound in a way that you can't reach with Saturation, Distortion and even Clipper.
Theoretically it distorts, ok. But why is the sound so unique and different after processing it with AMP?
Big example is a kick. You can dial your distortion as long as you want, you still can't get the same sound as with the AMP (me personally, I might be wrong). Is there any secret or specific process I don't understand?
Thanx.

dna598
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Re: AMP vs Saturation and Distortion. What's the basic diffence?

Post by dna598 » Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:14 pm

I believe it is basically that the AMP has an eq after it to simulate the speaker cabinet of a guitar amp.
ctrl + left/right = select transient

ctrl + shift + left/right = select between transients

ctrl + space = play selection

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