Overdrive & Distortion: How to Be Creative

Here are 5 different ways to think about getting overdrive/distortion/breakup/dirt into your guitar signal. Affiliate links are below. Stop motion animation by John Marty, additional glitchy graphics by Greg Sadetsky. Thank you to Matthew Farrow at Alexander Pedals for helping me think of examples of non-clipping distortion. If you recognized that the song for pro-tip #4 was "Powerslave" by Iron Maiden, you get a kick out of this essay I wrote about almost getting into a fight at an Iron Maiden concert when I was 17: https://musicmoviesandhoops.com/iron-... Click here to listen to my album HARD FEELINGS on all platforms, it’s glitchy and hyper just like this video: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/cyb... For a list of the songs I'm covering in this video (and every video on my channel), click here: https://bit.ly/3vZ0yft If you would like to take Zoom guitar lessons from me, click here to get started: https://forms.gle/nFMVSEPoraq2LTPy6 Join my Patreon or become a YouTube channel member to get access to perks:   / cyberattack      / @cyberattackworld   AFFILIATE LINKS: Boss SD-1: https://bit.ly/3wnCLJy Benson Preamp: https://bit.ly/3QCnyeC 29 Boost: https://bit.ly/3wfYao3 MXR EVH 5150: https://bit.ly/3wfY2oz Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop: https://bit.ly/3LKwqfu MXR PHASE 100: https://bit.ly/3JSQECs Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water: https://bit.ly/3cOrd81 Strymon Iridium (this is what I used instead of real amps for this whole video): https://bit.ly/3Uah6ur TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:08 Pro-Tip #1: Dirty Amp + Overdrive 03:02 Sound Example 03:40 Pro-Tip #2: Clean Amp + Pedals 04:35 Sound Example 05:31 Pro-Tip #3: Pedal Order + FX Loops 06:00 Sound Example 08:08 Pro-Tip #4: Distortion Pedals 09:57 Sound Example 11:02 Pro-Tip #5: Undiscovered Realms 12:51 Sound Example