Air-G Audio Air-G Dist PedalAir-G Dist Pedal is part of Air-G Audio's Guitar Collection: a growing set of individual pedals built on the open source work of Airwindows, Chris Johnson's long-running project known for some of the most distinctive free DSP code in the audio world. Each pedal is a focused, single-purpose effect aimed at guitar players, and further down the road they're meant to come together into a single unified pedalboard. The Dist Pedal is a distortion based on Density3 by Airwindows. Rather than hard clipping, Density3 saturates with a sine-based curve, so it stays round and musical, from a light crunch to dense, compact saturation. DRIVE sets the amount and character of the dirt, while PUSH (added by Air-G) drives the signal into the saturator: since Density3 reacts to how hot the incoming level is, this is what makes the pedal kick, and it also lets you clean up straight from your guitar's volume knob. HPF is a high-pass placed before the saturation, so it sets from which frequency up the sound breaks up, and DRY/WET blends the clean, full-range signal back underneath (kept genuinely clean, independent of PUSH): raise HPF and pull DRY/WET back, and the lows stay clean and tight while the mids and highs growl, which is especially handy on bass and for coloring the guitar tone. DRIVE VOL sets how loud the distorted signal sits, and an OUT knob (also added by Air-G) sets the final level to match bypass or push an amp harder. The footswitch is true bypass, tied to the host's own bypass. Although its interface is styled as a guitar pedal, the Dist Pedal works just as well on any source: individual instruments like pads, keys or bass, or full mix buses. --- Air-G Audio is a collection of plugins built on the open source code of Airwindows. The project is built around adding a graphical interface that makes the experience more comfortable and visual, along with a few features that expand the possible uses without straying from the original sound. The simplicity and lightness of Chris's code are the starting point and the guide. Thanks to Chris Johnson for making his work public and accessible. Air-G Audio exists because Airwindows exists. The Airwindows code used in this plugin is published under the MIT License. *Air-G Dist Pedal is free, no strings attached, same open spirit as Chris's own work. It also took real hours to build: designing, coding, testing, writing the manual. If it earns a spot on your board, a donation of any size makes a real difference in keeping this collection going. And if you want to support where it all comes from, Chris Johnson's Patreon is the most direct way to back Airwindows itself: patreon.com/airwindows. Available for Windows and Linux. System Requirements: - Windows 10 or higher (64-bit). - Linux with GLIBC 2.35 or higher (Ubuntu 22.04 / Linux Mint 21 or equivalent). *There's no macOS version yet (sorry! I don't have access to a Mac at the moment), but I hope to make one someday! All formats are VST3 64-bit. ***Windows note: the installer is not signed with a paid certificate, so SmartScreen may show a "Windows protected your PC" warning. Click "More info", then "Run anyway" to continue. This is expected and not a problem with the plugin. Read More