4.5 Concluding thoughts on distortion

In the end, we found our perfect distortion (plus a bit of noise we couldn't quite get out). Taking a look at the spectrogramsfor our music sample and our distorted musical sample , we can see which harmonics were emphasized to create the distortion.

Music sample: everlong by the foo fighters

Distorted music sample

More importantly, we can hear the wonderful difference between the two sound clips, the original Foo Fighters' Everlong clip and the distorted version . To test the overall quality of our distortion, we can also listen to how our distorted sample sounds in comparison to an Marshall AVT-50 amplifier . All in all, this is a great method for simple distortion! The next step would be to map the pertinent terms from our TaylorSeries to "nobs" in order to increase or decrease each coefficient to change the distortion.