Versatile analogue distortion circuit emulation
Saturation is a mix engineer’s secret weapon. Add a little to a vocal, and it pops right out of a mix. Sprinkle some on a snare, and suddenly it’s cracky and full of life. Pile it on drum overheads for an aggressive sound that will grab your listeners by their ears. X-Saturator tackles all these tasks and more with aplomb.
Choose from second-order valve-style distortion, third-order transistor distortion, or blend the two for a perfect combination of tube warmth and transistor iron. Use X-Saturator with a light touch or drive it into grotesque, mangled distortion, which can be tucked back with the Shape control or folded underneath a mix with the Wet/Dry knob. Creamy and warm or biting and fierce, you’ve never heard a saturation plug-in quite like the SSL X-Saturator.
FEATURES
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Saturation plug-in with a huge range of distortion characteristics
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Adds pleasing analog-style even- and odd-order harmonics
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Choose from valve saturation or transistor saturation or blend the two
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Control the edge of the distortion, ranging from smooth to hard
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Wet/Dry knob for processing in parallel