Not Your Ordinary Distortion
10x Grammy winner Manny Marroquin (Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Lizzo, Future) isn’t your ordinary mixing engineer, and this isn’t your ordinary distortion. Parallel processing layers distortion that growls and teases instead of crushes—thicken digital synths, add grit to bass amps, toughen up drums, and more.
As Manny Marroquin says, “Whether or not it’s audible, sometimes I just want to feel distortion.” Now, you can feel—and hear—distortion that imparts a distinctive character to any sound.
requirements:
mac:
cpu: Intel or Silicon Architecture
ram: 8
disk: 16
version: macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14
additional_requirements: Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
internet required: no
windows:
cpu: X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU
ram: 8
disk: 16
version: Windows 10 64 bit and Windows 11
additional_requirements: Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
internet required: no
trial: no
notes:
feature: Created with mix engineer Manny Marroquin (Kendrick Lamar, Lizzo)
Excels at making synths sound less sterile, and fit better in mixes
Pre-distortion compressor shapes the dynamics
Release determines whether distortion lingers with note tails
Makes single-coil pickups sound less thin and more assertive
4 pre-distortion EQ stages focus on the frequencies to be saturated
Beefs up drums for a bigger, more powerful sound
Attack control determines how rapidly the distortion develops
With subtle settings, makes vocals punch more than with a limiter
The ideal fix when some sounds are just too “clean”
licensing methods:
computer
usb
platforms: mac
windows
1178-2928
