Hello,

I fiddled around with clipping, but, does anyone knows how to create this sound in puredata ?

pedal : Shin-ei Companion FY-2 Fuzz Box

regards

you might want to check these out
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/10589/saturation-abstraction

there is also one called fx.fuzz~ in here:
https://github.com/megrimm/pd-fresh

https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/5222/better-sounding-guitar-distortion-beyond-clip-and-tanh

thanks, I'll check these out

I usually rely on various trigonometric functions for tube-like overdrive/saturation (tube and transistor characteristics are very close to tanh functions). Both atan and tanh sound good. You can do interesting things with the cos~ object too, beefing up your signal slightly by keeping it between the proper range before feeding it through a cos~function:

drive1~.pd

You can do a cheap tanh approximation with this formula: tanh(x) ~= x * (27 + x * x) / (27 + 9 * x * x). There's another way of doing it with exp~ which is accurate but more cpu expensive. I'm attaching patches/abstractions for both:

tanh2~.pd
tanh~.pd