Overdrive

Greed Smasher

Greed Smasher is a free saturation and overdrive VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Mercuriall Audio Software. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Greed Smasher free plugin for Mac OS X and Windows in AU, VST and AAX plugin formats.

Features/details:

• The modeled circuit is based on the MESA/Boogie GRID
SLAMMER Overdrive
• Low CPU usage
• Stereo and Mono modes
• Low (2x oversampling) and High (4x oversampling) Quality switch.

http://mercuriall.com

GFM Distort

GFM Distort is a free overdrive VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Games From Mars. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

GFM Distort is a gritty, digital distortion with low aliasing (16x oversampling). Best used with acid leads and drums.

http://www.gamesfrommars.fr/plugins/

Fuzz-Stone[Ge]

Fuzz-Stone[Ge] is a free overdrive and saturation VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by audiorammer. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Fuzz-Stone[Ge] is the third plug-in in AuraPlug’s Freetortion Series. The Fuzz-Stone[Ge] is a Fuzz style Germanium transistor distortion simulator.

Features:

Stompbox design.

Level control.

Distortion control.

Cabinet simulation.

Easy to use.

Low CPU usage (less than 1% on P4 2.4GHz).

The Controls:

Volume – Set the overall volume of the unit.

Attack – Set the amount of distortion.

Cabinet – Cabinet simulation.

http://www.audiorammer.com/

Fuzz-Stone

Fuzz-Stone is a free overdrive and saturation VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by audiorammer. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Fuzz-Stone is the second plug-in in AuraPlug’s Freetortion Series. The Fuzz-Stone is a ’60s-styled guitar fuzz tone pedal which simulates the Legendary Stones’ Satisfaction guitar tone.

Features:

Stompbox design.

Level control.

Distortion control.

Cabinet simulation.

Easy to use.

Low CPU usage.

The Controls:

Volume – Set the overall volume of the unit.

Attack – Set the amount of distortion.

Cabinet – Cabinet simulation.

http://www.audiorammer.com/

Func Shaper

Func Shaper is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by rs-met. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Func Shaper is a waveshaping distortion plugin based on a mathematical expression evaluator. You can enter an expression to create the function which will be used as waveshaping transfer function.

http://www.rs-met.com/

Face Bender

Face Bender is a free fuzz and overdrive VST plugin developed by Distorque. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Face Bender is a VST emulation of a Fuzz Face and a Tonebender MKII. It has added controls for tweaking or for crafting your own fuzz tone.

The Fuzz Face was first made by Arbiter Electronics in 1966. It had a thick, fuzzy distortion and was made famous by artists like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and David Gilmour. The Tone Bender MKII was also released in 1966, by Sola Sound. Compared to the Fuzz Face, it has a brighter, more distorted sound. As of v1.1, the Face Bender also emulates the silicon Fuzz Face of 1969.

Features:

Switchable 2x oversampling.

32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Stereo and Mono operation.

Accurate emulation of the Arbiter Fuzz Face and the Sola Sound Tonebender MKII.

Tweak controls: Input Level, Input Filter, Gate, Clean Blend, Lo Cut, Hi Cut, Material.

EddieVsHeaven

EddieVsHeaven is a free overdrive and saturation VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by audiorammer. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

EddieVsHeaven contains a complete guitar rig in a stompbox form.

Features:

Stompbox design.

Level, Drive, Low, Middle and High controls.

Built-in Distortion, Amp, Cabinet and Effect Simulation.

Both 32- and 64-bit versions are available for Windows XP, Vista and 7.

64-bit internal processing resolution.

Low CPU usage.

Easy to use.

http://www.audiorammer.com/

Dudelizer

Dudelizer is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by RunBeerRun. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Dudelizer is an amp-sim designed to bring out the characteristics of distortion plugins that you could use with it. It has 5 modes.

https://runbeerrun.blogspot.com/

Drivefactor

Drivefactor is a free overdrive VST plugin developed by Synthescience. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

The Drivefactor is an input sensitive Overdrive/Distortion plugin offering various clipping modes from soft clipping to more extreme Distortions.

Its based on the behaviour of regular overdrive and distortion stompboxes offering the user some classic solid state overdrive and distortion tones with a lot of fuzz in between.

Drivefactor is a temperamental plugin and reacts to what you throw at it in a dynamic way, responding differently to soft and loud input sounds.

The Drivefactor is fully automatable and has the ability to store 64 presets. It ships with a few already pre programmed ones that will show what its all about.

Installation procedure: Unzip the file, then copy the DLLs into your VstPlugins folder.

Drive

Drive is a free overdrive and saturation VST plugin developed by Groovyboy. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Drive is focused on creating distortion. It maintains ease of use while offering comprehensive control over distortion:

2 Filter units: PreFilter and PostFilter.

2 enhancing units: Low and Bite to control the character of sound.

Drive – heavy artillery distortion unit with enhancing abilities.

Saturation unit.

http://groovyboy.at.ua/