Distortion typically refers to the process of amplifying a signal until it begins to clip thus distorting the sound.

Guitar players started distorting their signals as early as the 1940s, though it wasn't really

until the 60s and 70s that distortion became an art form. It is pretty wild when you think

about it that entire genres of music are based on destroying a guitar signal, but I

guess it's cheaper than destroying a guitar. hard. And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, a Podcasts, I'm your host Kirk Hamilton, and as always I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about music

with distorted guitars,

music with clean guitars,

and sometimes music with a mix of distorted and clean guitars.

We've got a tune with a lot of filthy distortion on it to talk about on this episode and I am excited to plug in and get into it.

So turn up the volume, find a comfortable place to sit, and enjoy the show. I have long found distortion to be a sort of

intimidating concept. I'm not a guitar player at least not first and

foremost though I've played guitar for a very long time

but distortion has just it always alluded me at least for a while I understood that

you could get distortion petals and overdrive petals I wasn't totally clear on the

distinction between the two.

I knew that every pedal sounded different, that like a boss metal zone sounded one way,

while a big muff pie or a tube-screamer or a voodoo sparkle drive sounded another way,

but I was never totally clear what I wanted

other than I knew that sometimes I wanted it to sound a certain way when I played like a

power cord on the guitar. That's further complicated by the fact that you can also

get distortion from an amplifier or from

preamp so there are just a lot of different ways you can get distortion and when I

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