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=== Getting Good Fuzz Sounds ===There are numerous complaints on the forums about the fuzz effects. The general advice is Looking at stomps presets, many tend to combine use a combination of a fuzz Distortion shaper effect with a Recti Shaper and distortion effect (and possibly additional sometimes an EQas well) to emulate various real-world distortion boxes, particularly fuzz type distortion.
→Emulating Real Devices
The Formant option enables a formant parameter which defines a resonant peak (formant) in the pitch-shifted part of the signal. Formants determine what the tone sounds like, with the human voice making use of different formants to create the different phonetic sounds of the alphabet, particularly for vowels. Thus, the pitch-shifted sound can become quite different from its normal sound. It can reduce the "Chipmunks" type sound to upwards shifted settings. It can also make the guitar sound like a different instrument altogether.
== Emulating Real Devices Shapers ==Most of the KPA's While most effects are generic - they are not modeled after specific devices (with the exception being several of more common for guitarists, the Distortion "shaper" effects)may seem a bit confusing. InsteadEssentially, they provide lots of parameters attempt to make them fully tweakable. Some devices can be emulated by simply using "shape" the right settings for that type waveforms of effectthe input audio signal. Others may require using multiple KPA effects in combination This is essentially what distortion is, but most distortion circuits use ''clipping'' to get their unique soundreshape the waves. [http://wwwThese do something different entirely, but most end up adding harmonic overtones.wikpa.org/FX_Settings_%26_Presets This WiKPA.org page] contains lots The best advice is to try all of them at mild and hot settings to emulate real-world effects, run both into a clean amp profile as well as crunchy one.
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