DISTORTION

Distortion

Distortion effects create "warm", "dirty" and "fuzzy" sounds by compressing the peaks of an electric musical instrument's sound wave and adding overtones. Distortion effects are sometimes called "gain" effects, as distorted guitar sounds were first achieved by over-driving tube amplifiers. Distortion has long been integral to the sound of the electric guitar in rock and roll music, and is important to other music genres such as electric blues and jazz fusion.

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distortion

Noun

  1. An act of distorting.
  2. A result of distorting.
  3. A misrepresentation of the truth.
    The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
  4. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
    This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.
  5. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
  6. (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.


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