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A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:02 am
by BevOh
Just wondering if anyone has any good tutorials or reading on these?
And also what are some good plugins, free and paid.

And what is your favourite reverb plug in?

Thanks! :W:

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:04 am
by jrisreal
best stereo widening vst is patcher

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:52 pm
by ScatterbrainMusic
When it comes to reverb, I've always used Abletons default reverb plugin, I think it's brilliant tbh.

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:56 pm
by Grumblex
ScatterbrainMusic wrote:When it comes to reverb, I've always used Abletons default reverb plugin, I think it's brilliant tbh.

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:47 pm
by olyko12
For saturation, PSP vintage warmer is pretty much where it's at

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:26 pm
by symmetricalsounds
ScatterbrainMusic wrote:When it comes to reverb, I've always used Abletons default reverb plugin, I think it's brilliant tbh.
it is good, totally not deserving of the stick it gets but i've gone onto using the oxford native reverb.

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:34 pm
by Demos
nice tutorial on getting width in your mix:



Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:59 pm
by frankiegrimes
For free Reverb plugs, I like both the TAL Reverb and MVerb a lot. Both better than the Ableton native verb IMO.

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:12 am
by looney
as saturators go i use cyanide2 (free) and the bundled ableton saturator (which i like a lot for some reason) exclusively

i find that saturation handles similar to compression in that you don't want to be using it on real noisy audio or deep bass

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:13 am
by amphibian
ScatterbrainMusic wrote:When it comes to reverb, I've always used Abletons default reverb plugin, I think it's brilliant tbh.
I've found this also. For some reason my reverbs in that just seem to come out naturally warmer and more "natural" than others I've used, including Toraverb. The only other reverb I've used that I'd put ahead of it - is NI's reflektor, part of the reaktor fx plugins (either that or guitar rig, can never remember).

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:29 am
by BevOh
Thanks alot guys will check this shit out :) think i have cyanide 2 already il play around with it when im home.

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:03 am
by RandoRando
BevOh wrote:Thanks alot guys will check this shit out :) think i have cyanide 2 already il play around with it when im home.
cyanide is the shit. you guys are talking about the distortion plugin cyanide right?

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:39 am
by Electric_Head
no the waveshaping plugin called cyanide
but you were close

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:41 am
by komanderkin
for saturation, my favorite (freeware) VST is FerricTDS. and here's my list of the best freeware saturation VSTs, some other good plugins there.

when it comes to reverbs, my favorite freeware is Ambience. here's the best freeware reverbs list.

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:21 pm
by BevOh
komanderkin wrote:for saturation, my favorite (freeware) VST is FerricTDS. and here's my list of the best freeware saturation VSTs, with some more options:
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2011/04 ... t-plugins/

when it comes to reverbs, my favorite freeware is Ambience. here's the freeware reverbs list:
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2011/05 ... t-plugins/
thanks alot mate! i always forget to check bedroom producers

Re: A few things on saturation and stereo widening

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:46 pm
by komanderkin
cheers!