The J37’s Abbey Road related reputation precedes it and this plugin by waves does all the business when it comes to tape saturation and vintage emulation. It’s great for all types of instruments and can be pushed gently or hard! Waves J37 The Saturation Knob can be used when mixing guitars to get a killer lo-fi grit also. By excluding bass from the processing, you can affect a drum loop whilst leaving the kick as it is, for example. There’s enough control to apply this to any number of sources for a pleasant output distortion that fattens bass or adds grit to treble. This allows you to apply saturation to more of the higher frequencies or more of the lower ones, which neutral in between. There’s just one knob to control the level of saturation and then just one switch. It’s free and is pretty much as simple as it gets.

Saturation knob by Softube is a nifty little plugin that can saturate your audio authentically. Fortunately, there are so many options available to really warm up overly clean and clinical sounding recordings using vintage emulation plug-ins. In the digital world, where most of us do our work on DAWs, this authenticity is missing. This aged gear is renowned for making music sweeter, warmer and more authentic or lively with additional depth. Most of the very top records produced in prestigious studios are created using vintage equipment originating from the 80’s or before. Despite the advancing years, vintage sounds will be forever carved into the music industry.

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