The WRP is our take on a distortion, with its primary goal being not to distort things, but to amplify, overdrive and/or add harmonics to signals. And yes, of course it is also a distortion, but since people think about heavy metal and fully unrecognizable sounds when they hear distortion, we wanted to elaborate a bit on what to expect.

There are many ways how you can distort sounds electronically and for this module we chose to return to the simplest form which people first started using early 1970’s. The signal gets amplified with a maximum gain and then it gets softly trimmed into the realm of modular levels.

We added a button to trim some of the high frequencies which get added by this method, which is very usable when you feed it for example field recordings. Another nice TEDDY addition is the MIX knob, through which you can add the distorted signal to the original signal (think: dry-wet). This is very useable when you want to add harmonics to the original signal, but yet still concentrate sonically on your original signal.

Finally: We also added a few extra resistors to the kit so you can choose the maximum distortion. So depending on your needs you can keep it subtle or, well, make is as dirty as you need it to be.