Different distortion types for different frequencies

[kidslow]

You all are making a convincing argument for Spectre. Gone on the demo & price watch list.

[imrae]

Spectre does this without needing 3 plugins to sandwich a saturator between 2 EQ's. Still, this manual approach might be perfect for more precise control.

Indeed, I rarely do the sandwich trick when there are other options. As well as Spectre, Reelbus 4 has a saturation EQ section which seems to work like this.

I also built a eurorack hardware implementation

It's quite common to do a similar thing for heavy guitar tones: the lows are cut and mids emphasised with an overdrive pedal, then go through a distorted preamp, then the output EQ and cabinet restore some low-end and cut the mids a bit.