The newest upgrade to Elektron's Analog Heat stereo analog distortion hardware brings smoother, more accurate encoders, enhanced live performance features and more. Jade Wii took it for a spin.

Elektron are adding more features to Overbridge 2.0. This time we have an Analog Heat plugin which includes some very cool integration right inside your DAW.

On sale for just $99 until the end of November 2018, Softube's latest release is a great-sounding harmonic dynamic analog distortion plugin.

These three FX plugins, part of the Komplete 12 package or available separately, can add a new dimension of dirt to your tracks. Here’s how you could do it.

If you've been looking for the organic sound of a tube amplifier being pushed into breakup - look no further! Redoptor 2 is here to help.

For Mac, PC and iPad, the new Klevgrand Degrader brings resampling and bitcrushing goodness to your tracks.

The new Cimmerian Caves V2 is an analog hardware effects unit for echo, vibrato, chorus and fuzz with a distinctly moody, lush, warbly sound that Boards of Canada fans will love.

Native Instruments have launched EFFECTS SERIES – CRUSH PACK, a follow-up to the critically acclaimed MOD PACK. Comprising three plugins there's a wide palette of tonal distortion sounds to play with.

Waveshaping can provide a very different kind of distortion and it's available inside Live's own plugin effect. Here's how it works.

Crush delay and digital circuit bending in a box that sounds as good as it looks? Scott Riesterer checks out Befaco Crush Delay 2.

Most gear demo videos focus on the presenter or the music which isn't a bad thing. But when you want to hear exactly how the filters of Elektron's Analog Heat affect a sound this video will help.

After Elektron announced the Analog Heat distortion unit, it made sense for them to release a distortion stomp box unit. We didn't expect it to be as fully featured as the Analog Drive though!

Elektron's latest machine, Analog Heat, has caused some hot discussion since its announcement. It's certainly more than the sum of its parts as the videos demonstrate and now it's shipping.

This live video demo of the Elektron Analog Heat by Projekt Dataline with the new Roland TB-03 and the RYTM, Four and Octatrack will make you feel toast warm inside.

Yes, the heat is well and truly ON. In this second video demonstrating what the Analog Heat is capable of, Elektron show it processing the outputs from DrumTraks with some interesting LFO madness.

Confused about the different types of gain on guitar amp sim plugins and on the guitar itself? What's the best way to match input and amp gains? All this and more is revealed in this video tutorial.

Bastl Instruments have released a short film on the effect box from Norway made 23 years earlier, Distortotron. This analog downsampler & bitreducer helped Bastl create the Tromsø Eurorack module.

Back on 11th March, our friends at Audified made their $19 legendary overdrive and distortion pedal emulation plug-in collection, MutliDrive, free for a limited time only!

With so many distortion and amp sim processing units and plugins available we take a look at processing mistakes to avoid, and conversely, provide some tips to help you tame the distortion as needed.

D16's Devastor 2 is a multiband distortion processor plugin that provides lots of control over how the signal is affected, and all in a retro-style GUI. Hollin Jones finds out just how flexible it is.

Soundtoys 5 not only includes all 18 audio effects plug-ins from the Soundtoys collection, but also features a new Effect Rack and workflow enhancements. Check it out below.