This saturation features a large saturation knob and a dial below to choose your desired type of saturation.
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The Softtube Saturation Knob is one of those saturation plugins you can't believe is free Grammy award-winning producers even use it. Give it a try, you’ve got nothing to lose.Ĭheck out the Logic Fiends’ list of other free vst plugins. Saturation Knob (by Softube) The one-knob magic tool, as many would call it. Share in-progress projects and discover tutorials, plugins and sample packs from other producers. Use it to fatten up bass lines, add some harmonics and shimmer. Blend is the collaboration network for music creators. As you can see, the Softube Saturation Knob is pretty impressive for a free plugin. Saturation Knob is a modeled output distortion that can be used anywhere you need some grit. In fact they make several exclusives for Universal Audio. Softtube makes some really excellent plugins. What a difference it makes in warming up the track! “I Am Lost” clip dry “I Am Lost” Saturation Knob on the mix bus. It’s up about a third of the way and the toggle is set to “Keep Low”. Here is a clip from one of my songs title “I Am Lost” with the Saturation Knob on the mix bus. It adds some presence, but in a subtle way, so I guess you could also look at this as a poor man’s exciter. The three modesKeep High, Neutral and Keep Lowgive you three characters of distortion. Adjust to taste and dial in anything from subtle harmonic overdrive to blown-out distortion. Here is a female vocal example with their “Vocal Exciter” preset applied. Use the Free Softube Saturation Knob to fatten up bass lines, add some harmonics and shimmer to vocals, or simply destroy your drum loop. To show that it can be use to add character and thicken up a vocal, here is the main dry track out front, with the other two examples panned left and right, and the volume brought down on them. Dry Vocal Vocal all the way up “Keep Low” Vocal all the way up “Keep High” This is maxed out, all the way up, which can sound quite horrible, but can also be used for effect. So you really can go from subtle to obvious, and automating it for various parts of a song might not be a bad idea! Another Bass Track Dry Another Bass Track with a bit of Saturation Another Bass Track with Aggressive SaturationĬheck out this article for more ideas on adding saturation, distortion and harmonics to your tracks. But set to a little more than half way, it gets very aggressive. Put about a quarter of the way up, it makes it sound better but not out of control. Here’s another Bass example because it’s just so good on bass.