Clon Minotaur Overdrive vs Blindfold EQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clon Minotaur Overdrive
This app models a renowned guitar overdrive pedal, offering a clean boost or distorted tones. It can be used as a standalone application or integrated with other audio apps.
- Transparent overdrive emulation
- Clean boost functionality
- Distorted signal with germanium diodes
- Gain, treble, and volume controls
- Standalone app
- AudioUnit v3 effect
- Inter-App Audio effect
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Clon Minotaur Transparent Overdrive is modeled on The Klon Centaur* a guitar overdrive pedal developed between 1990 and 1994. The Clon Minotaur is characterized as a "transparent" overdrive, meaning it adds gain to the signal without significantly altering the tone of the guitar. Depending on the settings of the control knobs, the Clon Minotaur Transparent Overdrive can act mostly as a clean boost, adding mostly volume and minimal coloring to the sound. This can be used to drive the input valve stage of the virtual amplifier to use the characteristic distortion sound of an overdriven guitar amp. Clon Minotaur Transparent Overdrive controls can be set to distort the sound signal in the plugin, where two modeled germanium diodes can perform waveform clipping. The gain parameter controls the balance between the modeled diode clipping stage and the clean stage. The two signals are summed together before they interact with the other two controls, treble and volume. Works as a standalone app, AudioUnit v3 effect, or Inter-App Audio effect Legal Disclaimer: * Please note that all marks and models are all trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Nembrini Audio. These marks and names are used solely for the purpose of describing certain tones produced using Nembrini Audio’s modeling technology.
Blindfold EQ
This music production tool offers a unique approach to audio equalization by removing all visual indicators. Users must rely solely on their hearing to adjust four distinct frequency bands, fostering a more intuitive and ear-focused mixing experience.
- Four-band EQ (LowShelf, LowMid, HighMid, HighShelf)
- Blind knobs with no visual indicators
- Ear-based frequency and gain adjustment
- Intuitive mixing workflow
- Freeware plugin
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Blindfold EQ is a freeware EQ plugin inspired by a quote by Matt Wallace from the book Recording Unhinged by Sylvia Massy. It has 4 bands (LowShelf, LowMid, HighMid, HighShelf), but each knob is blind. There are no indicators or numbers to show frequency values, gain values or Q values. You have to use your ears.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Blindfold EQ at free against Clon Minotaur Overdrive's free with in-app purchases. Blindfold EQ also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Clon Minotaur Overdrive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 34 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Clon Minotaur Overdrive's written reviews are positive against 100% of Blindfold EQ's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Clon Minotaur Overdrive | Blindfold EQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better | 4.8 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nembrini Audio | AudioThing Ltd. |
Customer experience
Clon Minotaur Overdrive
Blindfold EQ
In-app purchases
Clon Minotaur Overdrive
No in-app purchases
Blindfold EQ
No in-app purchases
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