One Slider

CRUNCH

One-Knob Hard Distortion

Download free Part of NULL JSFX 2.5: 113 plugins, free and open source (MIT). Easiest with NULL JSFX Hub.

Listen

The same music with the Parallel Edge preset and without the plugin. Switch while it plays.

Controls

Amount0 to 100 — Drive, clipping hardness and mix together: 0 is the untouched signal, 100 drives the input 20x into a clipper with a hard knee, crossfaded fully to the distorted sound and level-compensated

Best uses

Aggressive drum bus dirt
Gritty bass layers
Distorted vocal effects
Edge on synth leads
Lo-fi parallel crunch

Properties

Input → drive (1–20x) → variable-knee clipper (knee 2 to 10, soft to near-hard) → 9 kHz one-pole low-pass to tame fizz → level compensation → dry/crunch crossfade by Amount → Output. Zero latency, no oversampling; 0 is a clean pass-through.

Formats

JSFXJSFX for REAPER, with REAPER's own sliders
GFXJSFX GFX for REAPER, with its own interface
VST3VST3 for any DAW
CLAPCLAP for any DAW

Factory presets

Parallel Edge · Synth Lead Bite · Drum Bus Dirt · Gritty Bass Layer · Full Destruction

In the FX chains and Rack presets

Color Drive · Mid/Side Drive

See every FX chain

Try it

Try it on orOS StudioAdd it to a track in your browser, with its own interface. Nothing to install.