What are you using to meet all your saturation/coloring needs?
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 27 Jun, 2016
Sansamp and Decapitator. The Massey THC is fun too.
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- KVRAF
- 3055 posts since 10 Nov, 2013 from Germany
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- KVRian
- 623 posts since 19 Feb, 2011
Vertigo VSM-3.
Very versatile, a bit more complicated than others...also weird, unique + sounding very good. ("regular price" 299.. but goes for 129 atm. Full price...nuts.)
Very versatile, a bit more complicated than others...also weird, unique + sounding very good. ("regular price" 299.. but goes for 129 atm. Full price...nuts.)
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- KVRAF
- 35405 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Softube Saturation Knob is really pretty nice. Of course, there's not many options on that plugin, but i really dig the sound of it. I also tried Sonimus Satson, but wasn't quite as fond of the sound. Maybe i didn't give it enough time though. Also tried IVGI, not as nice as the Softube one either IMO.
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- KVRist
- 75 posts since 21 Nov, 2002 from los angeles
I use a few things. I mostly play piano and electric guitar. What pleases me the most is to have 2-3 things that are lightly saturating in a signal chain, nothing that is pushing too hard.
Lately I've been doing this:
piano source (Pianoteq or NI's Una Corda or The Giant) -->
Waves REDD or Decapitator
Waves ADT or EchoBoy (either one with a little saturation)
Reverb
Cytomic The Drop, with a LPF mostly opened up with a little resonance and the preamp driven a couple dbs
Fabfilter Pro-C (clean)
Either Waves j37 tape or Uhe Satin, with a little saturation and flutter.
When I get it right I feel like I can play the saturation is a very natural way so that it responds to dynamics and touch. With a few sources of saturation dialed in low I find the color to be right also. Using just one sounds flat. That said I'm recording a single track performance this way, not a few different instruments, so I want to fill the soundstage, not to blend.
Lately I've been doing this:
piano source (Pianoteq or NI's Una Corda or The Giant) -->
Waves REDD or Decapitator
Waves ADT or EchoBoy (either one with a little saturation)
Reverb
Cytomic The Drop, with a LPF mostly opened up with a little resonance and the preamp driven a couple dbs
Fabfilter Pro-C (clean)
Either Waves j37 tape or Uhe Satin, with a little saturation and flutter.
When I get it right I feel like I can play the saturation is a very natural way so that it responds to dynamics and touch. With a few sources of saturation dialed in low I find the color to be right also. Using just one sounds flat. That said I'm recording a single track performance this way, not a few different instruments, so I want to fill the soundstage, not to blend.
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- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
Fabfilter Saturn, Ableton's saturator, Waves tape emulation, TLS Saturated driver, all of it maxed, dimed, smashed constantly and then brickwalled and pancaked, then back through the whole chain again and again.
Out to old cassette tape, driven to absurd distortion, back ITB and through the whole signal chain again, all totally saturated and just, like, totally completely maxed out.
Maybe a transient designer after that to see if there's anything left in the white noise that might resemble a beat.
Out to old cassette tape, driven to absurd distortion, back ITB and through the whole signal chain again, all totally saturated and just, like, totally completely maxed out.
Maybe a transient designer after that to see if there's anything left in the white noise that might resemble a beat.
