How Distortion Works in Music
That&#x27;s cool, but it doesn&#x27;t really explain _why_ the sound becomes more interesting. It has to do with how the sound is played back, in short, there are no &quot;square&quot; waves. Everything is a combination of sine waves. The more you have it&#x27;s as if there are more instruments playing on top of each other, in music they&#x27;re called &quot;harmonics&quot;. A &quot;squared&quot; wave is a wave with many many additional sine waves in different frequencies that overlap with each other, if you were to plot it it wouldn&#x27;t look square, rather it would be wavy. This article shows visually how this effect takes place, if you are interested: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jezzamon.com&#x2F;fourier&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jezzamon.com&#x2F;fourier&#x2F;</a>