distorted guitars

Crunchy electric sound

Distorted guitars produce a fuzzy, growling, or crunchy sound achieved by overdriving an amplifier or using effects pedals to clip the audio signal.

The technique defines rock, metal, and punk music, creating sounds ranging from warm overdrive to aggressive, heavily saturated tones.

The song opens with a wall of distorted guitars.

Related

tube amp · pedals · shred · riffs · palm muting · heavy · loud · gain · sustain · power chords · wah · screaming · sludge · saturated · cranked · tone · breakup · tubes

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Opposites
signal processing/tone

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Unaltered instrument sound

instrument type/amplification

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Stringed instruments without amplification

nylon-string guitar · classical guitar · folk guitar · flamenco guitar

musical aesthetic/genre association

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Improvised music on strings

folk guitar · fingerstyle guitar · elevator music

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G