DCC

A hard clipping distortion plugin with DC offset manipulation.

How does it sound?

The plugin was designed to make distortion as heard here simple to recreate: leastfavorite! - CLIP!

This has the advantage of creating a wide sounding bass tone, while preserving mono compatibility.

Signal flow

1. Apply Pre-Gain
2. Apply Offset (add DC Offset to the signal)
3. Apply Skew (add DC Offset to the left channel, subtract DC Offset from the right channel)
4. Apply hard clipping
5. Revert Offset and Skew
6. Apply Post-Gain
7. Apply hard clipping

Installation

1. Download the platform appropriate archive from the releases page.
2. Extract the archive.
3. Copy the plugin in your desired format to your plugins folder.

Building

To build the plugin, run the following command:

cargo xtask bundle dcc --release

To create universal bundles for MacOS, make sure you have both the x86_64-apple-darwin and aarch64-apple-darwin targets installed and run the following command:

cargo xtask bundle-universal dcc --release

The built bundles will be located in ./target/bundled/