How the Spooky Sound of Distortion Is Created by Putting Artificial Caps on Emitted Sound Waves
In a Halloween-themed episode, the fast talking doodling music theorist and musician 12tone took a detailed look at why distortion is so spooky. He offers an excellent explanation of sound shapes, a history of early amplifiers and how distortion is created out of inharmonic overtones, which are additional frequencies that are piled onto artificial sound wave caps.
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