Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pedals. Distortion, originally considered an undesirable side effect of overloading audio equipment, has become a key element of ...

The focal length of lenses doesn’t cause perspective distortion, which is often explained as “lens compression.” Period. Now before you call me crazy and dismiss whatever I have to say, I’d like to ...

What I do is like predicting how a pair of glasses will warp your vision before you ever put them on — except the consequences of getting it wrong aren’t a headache. They’re a failed emergency braking ...

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The many properties of light allow it to be manipulated and used for applications that range from very sensitive measurements to communications and intelligent ways to interrogate objects. A ...

We all know what distortion sounds like. We’ve heard it in heavy metal tunes, cheap iPod docks and the crummy speakers at Taco Bell drive-thrus. And we’ve all read distortion specs on things like ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Arturia has been building out its collection of effects plugins over the last few years. One notable blind spot was distortion. It wasn't ...