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Overdrive

Guitar-amp style dirt.

WHAT IT DOES

Overdrive shapes the loud parts of the signal aggressively, the way a cranked guitar amp does. Crunchy, present, in-your-face.

HOW IT WORKS

DRIVE pushes the signal harder into a soft-clipping tanh curve. TONE darkens or brightens the result.

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SOURCE: Parameters & terminology modeled on Ableton Live 12's Overdrive — Live 12 manual §22.30. DSP is a simplified Web Audio approximation — directionally accurate, not a clone.

COMMON MISTAKES

✗ Drive maxed without tone control
✗ Forgetting OUTPUT compensation

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