Learn Arduino Guitar Effects with me. Project 2 - Distortion

For a distortion, raising the gain by several tens of dB is pretty common. Analogue distortion pedals with more than 60 dB gain are not unusual. The noise is amplified too of course, and when the distortion is turned on it can be heard distinctly if the input signal is not very clean. The Daisy Seed also adds some noise coming from the digital circuitry, as mentioned here.