The Distortion effect is used for guitars. This means that a recording of acoustic guitar can be distorted to sound like an electric guitar.    
The following setting options are available in the Distortion area:
Drop-down menu
Method
Offers a variety of distortion options, e.g. an old megaphone.
Slider
Drive
Indicates the intensity of the interference.
Slider
Hardness
Specifies the hardness of the distortion.
This can only be adjusted if the Tube, Fuzz3 and Variable clipping entries have been selected in the Method drop-down menu.
The following setting options are available in the Pre-Filtering area:
Check box
Pre-Filtering
Filters the original signal before it is distorted.
Slider
Lower Cutoff
Specifies the lower limit of the frequency band for the original signal.
Slider
Upper Cutoff
Specifies the upper limit of the frequency band for the original signal.
The following setting options are available in the Post-Filtering area:
Check box
Post-Filtering
Filters the distorted signal.
Slider
Lower Cutoff
Specifies the lower limit of the frequency band for the edited signal.
Slider
Upper Cutoff
Specifies the upper limit of the frequency band for the edited signal.
The following sliders are available in the Mix area:
Dry Signal
Mixes the original signal with the copied signal, indicating the intensity of the original signal.
Effect
Mixes the original signal with the copied signal, indicating the intensity of the copied signal.
 


Distortion