Hello and welcome to this week's article!
Today we are going to review a new free Vst plugin, an overdrive by Audiority: the Dr Drive!
This overdrive is modeled after the Horizon Devices Precision Drive, a modified version of the classic Tube Screamer designed by Misha Mansoor of Periphery, which includes 4 knobs (plus the gate switch, which is in a separate part of the GUI):
- Level (which is similar to the Tube Screamer one, except for the fact that the 6 in this corresponds to the 10 in the TS, so use it very carefully),
- Drive, which not too different from the TS one, very usable (I have used this plugin mainly as a booster, though)
- Attack, which determines where is set the attack when picking, from somewhere in the lower mids to the ear piercing highs area, and it's useful especially when creating modern tones,
- Bright, which is basically a tone knob, but tuned a bit more towards the high end, therefore conservative settings are suggested,
- Gate: an intelligent noise gate that basically removes the need of adding a separate gate plugin to our guitar chain, thus saving CPU
What can I say? Since I have tried this plugin, it has become my go-to overdrive for all projects, because it sounds great, it has an integrated noise gate and it gives even more tone shaping tools than the classic Tube Screamer, so I really suggest all of our readers to download this plugin and try it out, it might become your ultimate overdrive plugin for a long time.
Thumbs up!
- Analog Modelled Overdrive
- Drive, Tone, Attack and Level controls
- Pre and Post effect gain
- Mix control
- Noise Gate
- Resizable interface
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