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Arturia Dist OPAMP-21

Original price was: $199.00.Current price is: $149.00.

Dist OPAMP-21 is a distortion and saturation effect inspired by a guitar pedal cult classic, known for its direct amp-like sound. Add mix-cutting punch, harmonic color, and pure aggression to any sound with a certified studio legend enhanced for DAW production.

Description
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Amped distortion classic

Studio-to-stage saturation

Whether it’s that gritty rough edge, that in-your-face impact, or that final transparent boost you’re after, Dist OPAMP-21 delivers the full range of crisp, urgent, colorful distortion and saturation that you’ve been looking for.

Amp-like distortion

Dist OPAMP-21 delivers a unique flavor of solid state guitar amp-style grit; responsive, organic, immediate, and as hot as you need it to be.

Character unlocked

Explore hundreds of possible distortion configurations with Dist OPAMP-21’s deceptively simple controls; combine its 4 modes with up to 8 ‘character’ switches to find your own crunchy flavor.

For any sound

Enrich your guitar tracks, fatten your topline vocals, crush your drum transients, or roast your mix bus to serving temperature. This faithful emulation might just be the finishing touch that your production is looking for.

For any sound

Overcome the limitations of studio hardware and go beyond analog circuitry with modernized features like gain compensation, post-drive EQ and expanded stereo processing. Old distortion, new tricks.

The sound of heat

Many of music’s most legendary guitar riffs, iconic vocal lines, and soul-stirring mixes simply wouldn’t have been possible without the humble vacuum tube.

These decades-old components are temperamental in their behavior, fragile in their operation, and limited in their lifespan. Yet their ability to produce a beautifully even harmonic response gives any valve-processed sound a rich, warm, smooth character that’s hard to match.

Couple this with their unique ability to dynamically distort incoming sounds with varying levels of grit and aggression, and you’ve got a formula that remains irresistible to musicians, producers, and audio trailblazers to this day.

Whether it's a vocal line in need of some extra color, a drum bus that needs some crunch, or your guitar & synth tracks begging for some edgy crunch, Dist TUBE-CULTURE puts this sought-after sonic attitude in your hands. Experience the stunning sound of a modern studio classic reimagined in virtual form.

Bass More Sub

Dry
Wet

Simple mini-like synth through the classic OPAMP-21's Bass mode, filtering midrange frequencies to provide this nice bass amp tone.

Vocal Filter Drive

Dry
Wet

No Fuzzybox No worries, you got a Dist OPAMP-21 !

Use it in parallel to add a fuzz effect to voices.

Aggressive Arpeggio

Dry
Wet

Helps to transform your synth into a lead guitar.

Use the dry/wet to destroy the sound.

Drums Slightly Bigger

Dry
Wet

Use as a parallel process to destroy the signal and add it to your dry signal to add fat loudness to your sound.

Strat Grit Layer

Dry
Wet

Just adding a bit of crunch to the dynamic peaks of the guitar track.
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Bass Amp 21

Dry
Wet

A classic sound of famous Amp head with a simple settings.

A direct hit

Let’s step back in time to the late ‘80s, at a time when the world of music technology was witnessing innovation after innovation.

Sampling was fast becoming the in-thing, analog synthesizers were being upstaged by their sharper digital descendents, and guitar players were discovering the compact, reliable, consistent alternative to valve amps that was solid state technology.

This growing demand in alternatives to the old-school of heavy, temperamental amps was answered by a number of manufacturers and industry names, who raced to emulate the elusive tube sound - that’s where Tech 21* came in. The SansAmp®* was released in 1989, and it was a guitar pedal that immediately looked like it had a lot going on under the hood. More than just a distortion pedal, this little black box was designed to give guitarists a convincing amped-up sound straight into the desk. To this day, it’s considered the first ‘amp in a box’ solution offered to musicians.

By today’s standards, its amp emulation may not be perfect. But, like many innovative and novel bits of gear, it ultimately transcended its original purpose. Its relative wealth of controls, modes, and coloration options made it a surprisingly effective saturator, great for injecting grit and warmth into any sound. Its notoriety landed it in the hands of countless musicians, from Kurt Cobain’s iconic screaming guitars to Tchad Blake’s signature parallel saturation heard on records by Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, and many more. Today, Dist OPAMP-21 puts all that op-amp character - and more - right in your DAW.

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PRODUCT SUMMARY

Stereo Distortion and Saturation Effect with Emulated Op-Amp Circuit Behavior
Drive, Presence, and High Controls for Customizing Your Distortion Sound
Stereo Mode Selector: L-R, Mid, Side
Added Dry/wet Control for Parallel Processing
Pre-Drive High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters with Curve Low-End Emphasis
3-band Output EQ With Visualizer
2 Oversampling Modes for Supreme Audio Quality or Lower Latency Performance
A/B Comparison
NKS-ready

4 Modes of Virtual Preamp:
- MODERN: Flat EQ, No Coloration
- NORMAL: Mesa Boogie®-Style Preamps
- LEAD: Marshall®-Style Preamps
- BASS: Fender®-Style Preamps

Combine up To 8 ‘Character’ Switches
- MID Boost 1
- MID Boost 2
- LOW Drive
- Clean Amp
- Bright Switch
- Vintage Tubes
- Speaker Edge
- Close Mikin

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows:
Win 10+ (64bit)
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
1GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
ARM processors not supported on Windows

Apple:
Mac OS 11+
4 GB RAM
4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
1GB free hard disk space
OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU

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Required configuration
VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).