Hard Clipping
A widespread class of distortion used in electric guitars, is clipping of the guitar waveform. it is easy to add this effect to any string-simulation algorithm by passing the output signal through a nonlinear clipping function. For example, a hard clipper has the characteristic (in normalized form)
![$\displaystyle f(x) = \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -1, & x\leq -1 \\ [5pt] x, & -1 \leq x \leq 1 \\ [5pt] 1, & x\geq 1 \\ \end{array} \right. \protect$](http://www.dsprelated.com/josimages_new/pasp/img1514.png)
where
denotes the current input sample
, and 
denotes the output of the nonlinearity.
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