Fabfilter Saturn

[outdropt]

Got Fabfilter Saturn last night

Its fucking awesome. Any other users out there?

I felt like i was missing a good distortion plugin. I was sick of Ableton stocks, camelphat, and some free onesi had. They just added a certain character that became stale to me.

If you haven't heard of it, i could compare it to Ohmicide but much more user friendly. Its a Multband distortion/saturation tool.




More Info:
http://www.fabfilter.com/products/satur ... on-plug-in

Honestly after just this video I felt really comfortable with the tool. Very easy to use and it has a great sound to it.

Any tips/tricks for certain types of sounds... Drums, bass, synths ect?

[Genevieve]

Yeah I really like this one. Demo'd it for a while and I wanna buy it. Dirt cheap when you've already bought some things. I tried it a long time ago so I forgot... how insane do some of these distortions get? I mostly remember it for just adding some dirt to a signal, but not really for reece or gabber kick fuckery?

[Ledger]

I love it. Use it on all of my basses. Although, if you turn the drive up more than 40% on most distortions in it, it will begin to sound like shit, even with the mix at less than 20%. I really love the rectify distortion. Really gives a nice grit to it.

[outdropt]

It gets pretty gnarly.

Distortion types:

Clean tube
Broken Tube
Clean Tape
Warm tape
Old tape
Smooth amp
Crunchy amp
Lead amp
Screaming amp
Power amp
Gentle Saturation
Heavy Saturation
Smudge
Rectify
Destroy


I like using the cleaner distortions for upper harmonics, Clean amp, clean tape, warm tape, ect

You can literally turn the drive all the way up on most of these distortions and find something useful.

Its all about playing with gain, drive, and dry/wet... Like any distortion

For the sounds your talking about, try the bottom three. Destroy is like a bit crusher type of distortion. I dont really get the other 2, the slightest turn of the drive knob changes the sound so much, its gotta be some complex algorithms behind the scene. Heavy saturation, lead amp, screaming amp, and power amp have a nice quality about them. I'm still learning it tbh but i know I'm using this in every track i produce from now on.

[Genevieve]

Saturators are the only types of plugins I'd like multiple of, though with saturn I've probably had my fill too. I suppose I'll buy it! I've had good experiences with using 2 distortions in serial if it doesn't quite get intense enough for me

[outdropt]

I love it. Use it on all of my basses. Although, if you turn the drive up more than 40% on most distortions in it, it will begin to sound like shit, even with the mix at less than 20%. I really love the rectify distortion. Really gives a nice grit to it.

Depends on which distortion setting you use. The bottom 3 do sound pretty gross when you crank em but those 3 are doing more then just adding grit to the sound. It sounds like some add flanger, bit crusher, comb filtering.. At least that is what it sounds like.

I've found great richness in power amp when i focused on 300-3khz and cranked up the drive to 60%... With some other adjustments; dry/wet, dynamics, ect.

[outdropt]

Saturators are the only types of plugins I'd like multiple of, though with saturn I've probably had my fill too. I suppose I'll buy it! I've had good experiences with using 2 distortions in serial if it doesn't quite get intense enough for me

I try to get the levels right and get a full sound with saturation, compression, ect. Then i like to add more grit and harmonic content, then maybe check the levels again.

I feel like with bass sounds, transients are out the window.

[NinjaEdit]

Great plug. Improves the sound of just about everything. Try several in a row.

Ohmicide is better for heavy distortion.

[Ledger]

If I'm resampling a reese, I like to make my mids go from 300-3k, and sometimes I'll throw 3 or 4 different distortions in that range in saturn. Really makes the reese go crazy.

[VirtualMark]

I think it's a seriously powerful tool. You can split the frequencies up into multiple bands, automate pretty much everything, change the dynamics on each band, process just the mid or side, there's so much possibility it'd take months to explore it fully.

I mostly use it for basic stuff, just multiband distortion. I think i'll just spend a day sometime processing stuff and really go to town on the modulation, see what it can do.

[claudedefaren]

Love it. Turn the feedback knob up and the frequency down to like 40hz or below and have some fun

[Eat Bass]

yeah saturn is the shit. i find its much more usable than omhicide. like saturn is hard to get to sound like total shit where ohmicide got too harshh, too easily imo.

the modulation and creativity potention in saturn is amazing too as many of ff's plugs share.

[SunkLo]

I agree on both counts.

I haven't messed with the modulation much yet but I like the dynamics control.

[outdropt]

If i split a frequncy in Saturn and use some distortion, will saturn allow the harmonics added by distortion through; even if its not in the designated range. Or does it filter those off?

It sounds like saturn lets the signals cross over. Any way to control that?

[NinjaEdit]

It filters pre-saturation.

[outdropt]

Wish there was a way to control how much it bleeds into the other bands.

[NinjaEdit]

there's the post EQ.

[outdropt]

there's the post EQ.

Nice, thanks!

Any other tips?

[VirtualMark]

there's the post EQ.

Nice, thanks!

Any other tips?

If you're really worried about overlapping frequencies, you could just duplicate the channel and use multiple instances of Saturn. That'll give you as much control as you need.

[Mark-Creda]

I've always used Ohmnicide for distortion I find it ticks every box for me.
Haven't checked out Fabfilter but lots of people seem to be talking about it lately .