Saturation/distortion 2021
Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
Just watched one of the streams that @Lag (who sometimes frequent this place) makes on twitch. He uses the Scream 4 plugin from Reason a lot, It has a lot of very different models. Does anybody know of an alternative (not a reason user) that has the same broad palette? I often feel like a lot of the distortion I have works really well for some very specific purposes.
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Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
Scream, that old chesnut.
Audio Damage Kombinat Tri has a good set of features and different distortion types.
Audio Damage Kombinat Tri has a good set of features and different distortion types.
Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
Thanks Steve! I'll check that outLost to the Void wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 6:17 pmScream, that old chesnut.
Audio Damage Kombinat Tri has a good set of features and different distortion types.
Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
I got the Blackbox hg-2ms because it was on a steep sale and I had read a lot of good things about it. It pretty much immediately became my favorite bus saturation plugin. I haven't even played around the the m/s features yet, I got that version because at the time it was cheaper than the original non-m/s one.
I wouldn't buy it at full price because full price is insane.
It does sound great, though.
I wouldn't buy it at full price because full price is insane.
It does sound great, though.
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Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
Anyone use trash2?
Got it free few months back, but cant seem to get meaningful disto or sat out of it…
Got it free few months back, but cant seem to get meaningful disto or sat out of it…
Less is not always more.
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I don't use it, but what's the issue - too much, too little, or just unsatisfying tone?Bradley1602 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:47 pmAnyone use trash2?
Got it free few months back, but cant seem to get meaningful disto or sat out of it…
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It overloads distortion so fast. And I dont like the tone of the drive sections till now.
It eats cpu.
Too much for what I seem to get out of it.
Its very flexible obviously, but there seems to be so little sweetspot…
It eats cpu.
Too much for what I seem to get out of it.
Its very flexible obviously, but there seems to be so little sweetspot…
Less is not always more.
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Have you tried running it in parallel with the original source? Could maybe help with that.
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there is a wet/dry fader on trash2 but I have to agree with Bradley that is hardly usable for some light or gentle distortion or saturation
i added trash2 to the kick this track i posted yesterday in the members tracks section and you can hear in the beginning how it fucks up the decay of kick - it blends with the rest of the sounds once more comes in but otherwise it has a very agressive gabber sound to me
i added trash2 to the kick this track i posted yesterday in the members tracks section and you can hear in the beginning how it fucks up the decay of kick - it blends with the rest of the sounds once more comes in but otherwise it has a very agressive gabber sound to me
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Yes a few times already, I‘d love to like it cause of flexibility reasons. Im dissatisfied with abletons saturator these days…Ben Kohonays wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:25 pmHave you tried running it in parallel with the original source? Could maybe help with that.
Less is not always more.
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Ah, sounds like Izotope overcooked it. Often seems to be the case these days.Bradley1602 wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:46 amYes a few times already, I‘d love to like it cause of flexibility reasons. Im dissatisfied with abletons saturator these days…
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Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
The presets on Trash are all overcooked on the output.
You can be quite subtle with it, but it's a really unwieldy plugin with an overcomplicated interface.
Turn everything off and just focus on one module at a time and it makes more sense.
You can be quite subtle with it, but it's a really unwieldy plugin with an overcomplicated interface.
Turn everything off and just focus on one module at a time and it makes more sense.
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So airwindows console 7 / tapefat / tape / mackity
Less is not always more.
Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
So my most used plugins are the stock ableton plugins :
-Saturator
-Amp
-Overdrive
-Pedal
- Redux (the one in 11 is much better than the one in Live 10)
- Driving auto filter
- Driving the echo plugin (turning off the delay)
For third party stuff :
- Izotope Trash2 . Jarring at first but you can get really nice tones out of it.
- Fab filter saturn and volcano 3 with some crazy driven filters.
- Noise Engineering Ruina (the best one to destroy audio)
- Klanghelm IVGI
-Saturator
-Amp
-Overdrive
-Pedal
- Redux (the one in 11 is much better than the one in Live 10)
- Driving auto filter
- Driving the echo plugin (turning off the delay)
For third party stuff :
- Izotope Trash2 . Jarring at first but you can get really nice tones out of it.
- Fab filter saturn and volcano 3 with some crazy driven filters.
- Noise Engineering Ruina (the best one to destroy audio)
- Klanghelm IVGI
Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
you can hit the small 'd' button next to the input and then turn down the dry/wet knob and it will apply the input drive the dry signal
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The Black Box HG-2 is worth a look
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Yeah like the others said there is a ''D'' button (d for distortion or drive I believe ). You can crank the input gain and than compensate with output gain to get some nice distortion
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Re: Saturation/distortion 2021
Hg 2 black box seems like a very nice 2-bus driver. For “anything from small to large distos / sats“
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