[salmo]

Distortion, overdrive, and the 808 are all examples off the top of my head of folk analog audio.

The former two tend to use the imperfection of diodes leaking to create varying degrees of fuzz (really clipping) based on placement. It fakes pushing an amp past it’s thresholds.

The latter abused chips that failed QA as the source of noise. They can’t make “real” ones anymore, since the chip is out of production. This one’s from my memory and the description may be flawed.

In both cases, abusing electronics’ imperfections is the goal.

Now with pedals, you get magical beliefs about “original” parts, but that’s another story.

So many guitar effects are based on accidents and replication/reduction of them. It’s both technically and historically fascinating to me. “This sucks, but sounds cool. How can I make a smaller box that does it?”