effects
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:40 am
Guitar recording- i do not see distortion under effects, if it is there, what is it called.
As far as I'm aware there are not (yet) any guitar distortion effects specifically for Audacity, but there are a number of options that you could look at:
Edgar's "Broadcast Limiter" effect can be used as a kind of "Fuzz Box" effect http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Limiter_II
The "Leveller" (Effect menu > Leveller) will produce distortion when used at "heavy" levels - you can also apply it more than once if you want even more distortion.
Adding a bit of reverb (for example "GVerb") in addition to distortion can help produce a better over-driven guitar effect (Guitar amps frequently have some sort of reverb built in).
You could have a look on the KVR website for any free VST distortion plug-ins. Audacity 1.3.13 supports quite a lot (but not all) VST plug-ins.
See here for how to install plug-ins: http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins
and see here for specific instructions for VST plug-ins in Audacity 1.3.x http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_P ... a_versions
(note that the "VST Bridge" is for Audacity 1.2.x only - don't use it with Audacity 1.3.x)