Distortion, originally considered an undesirable side effect of overloading audio equipment, has become a key element of countless genres of modern music. The history of distortion truly begins in the ...

Here’s a simple tip for those of you who like to use Photo Booth’s distortion effects (those on the second page of the four pages of effects) on your photos. When you choose one of these effects, say ...

Just in time for Halloween, an extremely unsettling dysmorphic video has surfaced on r/blackmagicfuckery, a subreddit dedicated to the inexplicable. Stare at the video long enough, and the undoctored ...

Distorted guitars were a big part of the rock revolution last century; we try to forget about the roll. As a youth, [David Hilowitz] couldn’t afford a loud aggressive amp, a distortion pedal, or even ...

This freaky optical illusion makes people's faces appear hideously distorted -- but some brains are able to unscramble the visual cues. TikTok/stevepsychology/ It’s like putting on ugly goggles.

In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...

In an earlier post, the expression “feed forward” was discussed with respect to a control function used in some switch-mode power supplies. However, the term has other meanings as well. We are now ...

Music making is increasingly digitized here in 2020, but some analog audio effects are still very difficult to reproduce in this way. One of those effects is the kind of screeching guitar distortion ...

Read the first article in this series: Pedal effect circuit design: Getting started. Low-power, tube-like pedal effects can now be yours with a simple JFET circuit. The LSK489, in a common-source ...