fabfilter Saturn 2 or alternative

[concealed identity]

Unfortunately my Dent trial is expired. Apart from the oversampling conversation, I didn't hear any difference when I tried Triad and Dent with the same algorithms. But maybe I wasn't listening for the right thing.

[Igro]

Unfortunately my Dent trial is expired. Apart from the oversampling conversation, I didn't hear any difference when I tried Triad and Dent with the same algorithms. But maybe I wasn't listening for the right thing.

You can reset the demo by emailing them. I always evaluate products with the type of audio that can spot issues very easily. Usually percussions.

[AGIGA]

Great alternatives are:
Audio Assault XCTR v3. It's only $4.99 right now because it's going to be updated in the near future : https://audioassault.mx/legacy
and
Melda Productions MSaturatorMB. It's on sale for €17 right now.
https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSaturatorMB

[BackInCheck]

Unfortunately my Dent trial is expired. Apart from the oversampling conversation, I didn't hear any difference when I tried Triad and Dent with the same algorithms. But maybe I wasn't listening for the right thing.

You can reset the demo by emailing them. I always evaluate products with the type of audio that can spot issues very easily. Usually percussions.

Chimes (mark tree) samples are extremely useful to evaluate the quality of saturation plugins (including their oversampling algorithms) due to their pronounced high frequency content.

[BackInCheck]

Cableguys Shaperbox (Drive module) can be used as a multiband saturator

Also the new Air Multiband Filterbank, which was recently given away for free, has preamp drive per band!

[Coconut_Head]

The eq confuses me honestly. All bands have 4 tone controls, but I never quite know what I actually tweak. For example, if I have a band from 200-1000hz, where are the splits or center frequencies for the 4 tone controls?

The manual says:

The Tone controls adjust the bass, mid, treble and presence of the processed band signal, allowing you to tweak the harmonics generated by the distortion algorithm.

.... which is not very precise imho.

I'm very confused about this, especially in my current situation:
I have a heavily-DIY mix from my friend that I'm mastering. There is way too much bass in it, especially the sub-bass info. But you can't hear the bass at all in phone speakers since it's mostly sub. I want to add upper harmonics from just the bass so it can be heard on the phone speakers, but I don't really wanna saturate all the other instruments, and I definitely don't want to add more sub info...

In Saturn, if I saturate only the sub-bass and bass info (<131Hz), then with the Tone Controls EQ completely remove the "Band 1 Bass" and keep the other 3 bands at neutral or raise them, does that mean I'm adding harmonics in the mids and highs of the entire track that are "triggered" by only the <131Hz frequencies in the chosen area that is being saturated?

Does that effectively mean no saturation is being triggered by above 131Hz (excluding crossover)? Because this seems like my only option unless I want to saturate the mids of the entire track, which includes the mids-heavy instruments like guitars and vox (which I don't want).

[muki]

Chimes (mark tree) samples are extremely useful to evaluate the quality of saturation plugins (including their oversampling algorithms) due to their pronounced high frequency content.

+1
good idea

[billinder33]

5 pages and only 2 mentions of Wavesfactory Spectre?

Not sure why Spectre doesn't get the love that Saturn does. Algos sound great, the UI is way, way faster than Saturn to dial in.

[Dr.Gunjah]

Spectre indeed is great at what it does but it's ridiculous that the NaN bug still happens after many years.