Is it just me, but do most “wow complex” distortions just sound garbage? – Effects Forum

I’ve mostly used just Trash 2’s presets, but today I shut down everything else and simply tried the Trash module.

I think all of the other settings there sounded pretty bad except for those that happened to have quite clean (e.g. a half-sine) transfer curve.

So to me all the other “wow what a complex curve” were just pointless.

Why bother then?

Could be an analog-digital thing too. The digital distortions just sound bad, when the equivalent thing as analog electronics would sound lively and smooth.