RP Distort is pretty good, although I've not really used it at all since I got Saturn.

Magix Vandal is awesome too, and although it's geared towards the guitarist it works on other stuff really well too.

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FF Saturn is definitely top notch.
How often do you split up bands?

I also like the distortion section on CamelAudio Phat, although not so much the bit crusher.

Also there's a little plugin Steve Duda made, that does some nice distorting, I'll see if I can remember the name.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi FF Saturn is definitely top notch. How often do you split up bands? I also like the distortion section on CamelAudio Phat, although not so much the bit crusher. Also there's a little plugin Steve Duda made, that does some nice distorting, I'll see if I can remember the name.

being the preset whore that i am i mainly stick to the included presets...theres a nice one i think its called "The Tube" - gives a nice gritty feel for techno stuff
I should play around with more and come up with my own presets as the quality is definitely there

CamelPhat i think i bought "second-hand" before Saturn but i kinda forgot about then i was using Saturn so much - need to revisit that one

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Phat is genius. I wish I had a hardware one. The compressor couldve had more buttons though.

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I'll have to check some of these out. I never liked the results I had when running drums through a distortion. My experience led to too much treble boost, not enough crunch, and the sound I was looking for was better done with something else.

I think the tube leveler plug-in that comes with Sonar is a bit better, but still has the problem with cutting out too much of the low end.

Now if we were talking distortion on other types of signals, I came across this bundle a couple years ago, DS, Dsound, something like that--basically pedal emulators, and that sounded great on any signal. Was really great about overdrive on a digital signal. Normally driving a digital signal sounds like shit to me, but this one came close to sounding like actually using a pedal.

I'm biased though, I really think most distortion FX on drums just sound like shit so far, so that's why I'm looking forward to trying some of the recommendations above.