Distortion module recommendation

[Doc Jones]

I am looking to pickup a distortion box (either hardware or vst) to run both my virus c and jp8000 through and was wondering what you guys like to use.

[Panopticon]

Izotope Trash....

[Juho L]

Eternal classic Big Muff. It's really nasty distortion. Excellent box.

[Doc Jones]

Tough call as Izotope Trash seems like an incredible product and the Big Muff seems to be the industry standard.

Juho - how do you connect your virus up to the pedal? ie I'm guessing the pedal is mono in/out so do you just use mono out from the virus to the pedal and then into your computer or do you patch your virus directly into your computer and then take a spare out on your sound card and route it to the pedal?

Panopticon - how cpu hungry is Trash? I couldn't find anything on the website about its requirements.

thanks.

[Juho L]

Juho - how do you connect your virus up to the pedal? ie I'm guessing the pedal is mono in/out so do you just use mono out from the virus to the pedal and then into your computer or do you patch your virus directly into your computer and then take a spare out on your sound card and route it to the pedal?

The problem with analog distortion boxes is that they are almost without exception mono, due the fact that they are designed for guitars.

As you are needing to distort multiple sources, connect the box on one of the extra outputs of your soundcard (assuming that you have more than two cahannels) and then use the distortion through a group track from your sequencer. For example in Cubase create a mono group track and set its output to the channel the box is connected to.

[Panopticon]

Panopticon - how cpu hungry is Trash? I couldn't find anything on the website about its requirements.
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download the demo...it's the best distortion I've come across, you can use it on everything. I really don't know how CPU intensive it is, I'm on a dual processor G5, so I can easily (and often do) run over a hundred plugs at a time...

[Merlot]

It eats the shit out of my G4 1G processor. Depends on settings also.