Electric Guitar Distortion
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Electric guitar distortion is a traditional field of audio effects. In its simple form it means hard or soft clipping the signal. Clipping a signal is a form of signal distortion, in the context of audio effects sometimes also called overdrive. Overdrive or distortion will produce many strong harmonics. The distortion may be generated already before power amplification from an external effect pedal or inside the power amplifier (esp. with tube amplifier). Finally the already distorted and amplified signal is fed into loudspeakers installed in a cabinet. The loudspeaker(s) (incl. cabinet) may again distort the signal and also will introduce linear frequency range limitations and resonances (linear filtering). Resonances may result from guitar speaker itself and/or from the cabinet (open backside). More details can be found here.
Special Thanks
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Special thanks go to Dr. Philipp Bulling. He played the guitar and allowed to use the audio example for manipulations purposes. |
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Both, standard loudspeaker and headphone playback is possible. |
Audio Examples
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In March 2026, the DSS Chair attended the annual DAGA conference in Dresden. Thanks to the support of the GaS-Club, the student Aylin Kösker was given the opportunity to accompany the chair and participate in the conference from March 23rd to March 26th. As part of the daily poster sessions, she presented the results of her bachelor’s thesis “Machine Learning for the Analysis of Hydrographic Data to Assess the Waterside Accessibility of Port Waters” in the field of Underwater Acoustics. The thesis forms an important basis for an ongoing university research project on the acoustic analysis of sediment properties in harbor areas. The poster session enabled valuable discussions with researchers and conference participants from related research fields.