Had a lot of fun making this one! If you liked this style of video please drop a comment on other topics you'd like me to cover in this style or anything I can do to improve for next time! Peace :)
As a Producer for almost 10 years, i used to think i know everything, it amazes me that everyday i keep learning something diferent, great video bro, parcero mil gracias por el video esta una chimba, un abrazo 💛🇨🇴
Saturation plugins to cop/to get: 1) Waves Magma BB Tubes 2) Plugin Alliance-HendyAmps The Oven 3) Tone Projects-HendyAmps Michelangelo 4) *Black Salt Audio Oxygen (very good but can easily go out of phase if you aren't monitoring its correlation) 5) Oversampled Pancz (odd-even harmonic saturator with transient shaping) 6) MIA Laboratories 990 Spark Multiband 7) high end saturation: Michelangelo (already listed) via Acustica Audio --- JAM & JAM 2 --- Pumpkin PRO --- Diamond D(ynamic) Saturator (Also watch it as this can go out of phase easily too) 8) Honourable Mentions: MIA Laboratories Pi And Phi MK II, W.A Production RedClip, IK Multimedia Pusher, Heavyocity Punish, etc.
Very good video. Lately been loving saturation, on the lookout for tape machines, cassette decks/recorders, anything with that vintage colour, vibe and saturation, either in the format of an emulation plugin, or physical hardware
Thank you!! Yeah in all honesty Saturation is one of those things that I think sounds quite a lot better in hardware at the moment. I use a few different outboard pieces to saturate during the tracking and production phase usually. That said there are still some really useful ITB Saturation plugs like Needlepoint, Saturn etc
I see you have Studio 1. My old pc had Artist. That had the Cana San Martin free tape simulator. When that machine broke I got a new one and re-installed Artist. Since then, I've now found it impossible to get the Cana San plug-in back on. I'd guess Presonus have stopped allowing 3rd party plug-ins on to Artist, you have to get a paying version to have this facility now. What say you?
@@thankyoudriver4219 Sorry man I have no idea I have only ever used Pro and I also use basically 0 Presonus plugins as I started using Studio One after I already had good 3rd party ones. Izotope Vinyl is pretty good though!
Saturation is basically driving a linear circuit into non linear behaviour by overloading the input (as I understand it). So you can do it with tape and with transformers and with tubes :)
It all really comes down to reducing the crest factor bit by bit and how you want to treat the transients. For instance, you can compress a snare and add some saturation and use the compression to bring out the transient and shorten the sustain, making the transient more noticeable but keeping the peaks in control. You can also saturate a Rhodes to round the transient and thicken it up slightly. But yes, if everything is loud then nothing is, if everything is wide then nothing is. It's up to you to decide what elements you want to bring out :)
Saturation ITB DAW is better and keeps your audio signal in phase more so than ITB nonlinear EQ plugin and literally hundreds of EQ plugins out there. Ick!
JAM/JAM2, Pumpkin PRO - Acustica Audio RedClip - W.A Production Heavyocity Punish Kush Audio UBK-2 Tone Projects-HendyAmps MIchelangelo MIA Laboratories Pi And Pki MK II Black Salt Audio Oxygen Oversampled Pancz etc. are so much better than 99 percent of EQ plugins out there!
Subjective, but without oversampling, and even with it on tracks below 48 you'll run into aliasing which on a lot of tracks(say a song of 100 tracks)will add up to make your end sound worse than unmixed tracks would otherwise! Aliasing can be very bad when it adds up. On 1 or 2 tracks no big deal. But when it's on 90 tracks, that will ruin your overall sound! There are only a few plugins where this isn't an issue, and you'll run into this issue the higher the sample rate khz you record at. And you should never record below 48khz because the fold back aliasing starts at 17khz instead of 24 when recording at 48khz. Meaning MORE unwanted crap messing up your song! So let's say you've got a big computer, and love this saturation plugin with a bunch of aliasing and zero oversampling(oversampling mitigates aliasing to a certain degree), you can run it through a host plugin like Blu Cat Audio's Patchwork. Now you don't want to use oversampling on everything, as it will give you overshoots(say on limters), however if you have any saturation(distortion, analog mojo, etc)you'll want to use oversampling for that! SoundToys does not have oversampling, so using more than 1 instance can hurt your mix in bad ways if you use it a lot, or in conjunction with multiple other plugins across your mix that also has aliasing. 1 or 2 won't matter much, but it all adds up!
Had a lot of fun making this one! If you liked this style of video please drop a comment on other topics you'd like me to cover in this style or anything I can do to improve for next time! Peace :)
Never fully realised how saturation effected the dynamics of a sound, genuinely changes how I'm going to think about saturation in future
It can make a huge difference!
U going hard on the videos recently. Keep it up, UA-cam missing these type of videos. U gon go up!
Thank you my bro!! More coming soon too dw
As a Producer for almost 10 years, i used to think i know everything, it amazes me that everyday i keep learning something diferent, great video bro, parcero mil gracias por el video esta una chimba, un abrazo 💛🇨🇴
Thank you my bro!! So happy you got something useful out of it, soy feliz
Such a great video brother! Love your energy.
Thank you bro! Always coming with the enthusiasm 😂
Good examples for saturation uses! Would appreciate that we could listen to your A/B changes without speaking on top of it though for the future
Ah yeah, oops! I'll try and show some A/B with no speaking next time! Glad you liked the video :)
Saturation plugins to cop/to get:
1) Waves Magma BB Tubes
2) Plugin Alliance-HendyAmps The Oven
3) Tone Projects-HendyAmps Michelangelo
4) *Black Salt Audio Oxygen (very good but can easily go out of phase if you aren't monitoring its correlation)
5) Oversampled Pancz (odd-even harmonic saturator with transient shaping)
6) MIA Laboratories 990 Spark Multiband
7) high end saturation: Michelangelo (already listed) via Acustica Audio
--- JAM & JAM 2
--- Pumpkin PRO
--- Diamond D(ynamic) Saturator (Also watch it as this can go out of phase easily too)
8) Honourable Mentions: MIA Laboratories Pi And Phi MK II, W.A Production RedClip, IK Multimedia Pusher, Heavyocity Punish, etc.
Very good video. Lately been loving saturation, on the lookout for tape machines, cassette decks/recorders, anything with that vintage colour, vibe and saturation, either in the format of an emulation plugin, or physical hardware
Thank you!! Yeah in all honesty Saturation is one of those things that I think sounds quite a lot better in hardware at the moment. I use a few different outboard pieces to saturate during the tracking and production phase usually. That said there are still some really useful ITB Saturation plugs like Needlepoint, Saturn etc
love this
Thank you so much!!
Love you too ❤ appreciate your content bro
❤️ Thank you my bro!
Would you be able to tell us about these free tape saturaters please?
Izotope Vinyl is a good free option :)
@@AJontheKeys Ta.
I see you have Studio 1. My old pc had Artist. That had the Cana San Martin free tape simulator. When that machine broke I got a new one and re-installed Artist. Since then, I've now found it impossible to get the Cana San plug-in back on. I'd guess Presonus have stopped allowing 3rd party plug-ins on to Artist, you have to get a paying version to have this facility now. What say you?
@@thankyoudriver4219 Sorry man I have no idea I have only ever used Pro and I also use basically 0 Presonus plugins as I started using Studio One after I already had good 3rd party ones. Izotope Vinyl is pretty good though!
great video !
Thank you, appreciate it!
I always thought saturation refers to artifacts from magnetic tape saturation? Are you sure it has to do with analog circuitry overall?
Saturation is basically driving a linear circuit into non linear behaviour by overloading the input (as I understand it). So you can do it with tape and with transformers and with tubes :)
What vst was the bass(preset) on Kontakt?
Scarbee P bass I think! That's what I usually use in this genre
Surely, if everything is “punching through”, nothing is “punching through”? 🤔
It all really comes down to reducing the crest factor bit by bit and how you want to treat the transients. For instance, you can compress a snare and add some saturation and use the compression to bring out the transient and shorten the sustain, making the transient more noticeable but keeping the peaks in control. You can also saturate a Rhodes to round the transient and thicken it up slightly. But yes, if everything is loud then nothing is, if everything is wide then nothing is. It's up to you to decide what elements you want to bring out :)
Saturation ITB DAW is better and keeps your audio signal in phase more so than ITB nonlinear EQ plugin and literally hundreds of EQ plugins out there. Ick!
JAM/JAM2, Pumpkin PRO - Acustica Audio
RedClip - W.A Production
Heavyocity Punish
Kush Audio UBK-2
Tone Projects-HendyAmps MIchelangelo
MIA Laboratories Pi And Pki MK II
Black Salt Audio Oxygen
Oversampled Pancz
etc. are so much better than 99 percent of EQ plugins out there!
Subjective, but without oversampling, and even with it on tracks below 48 you'll run into aliasing which on a lot of tracks(say a song of 100 tracks)will add up to make your end sound worse than unmixed tracks would otherwise! Aliasing can be very bad when it adds up. On 1 or 2 tracks no big deal. But when it's on 90 tracks, that will ruin your overall sound! There are only a few plugins where this isn't an issue, and you'll run into this issue the higher the sample rate khz you record at. And you should never record below 48khz because the fold back aliasing starts at 17khz instead of 24 when recording at 48khz. Meaning MORE unwanted crap messing up your song! So let's say you've got a big computer, and love this saturation plugin with a bunch of aliasing and zero oversampling(oversampling mitigates aliasing to a certain degree), you can run it through a host plugin like Blu Cat Audio's Patchwork. Now you don't want to use oversampling on everything, as it will give you overshoots(say on limters), however if you have any saturation(distortion, analog mojo, etc)you'll want to use oversampling for that! SoundToys does not have oversampling, so using more than 1 instance can hurt your mix in bad ways if you use it a lot, or in conjunction with multiple other plugins across your mix that also has aliasing. 1 or 2 won't matter much, but it all adds up!
What is ITB?
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hello. can i ask you something please?
go for it!