![]() Today, for this decidedly more demonstrative tape saturation showdown, I pulled some multitracks from a recent project I produced for two Chicago artists, Brazill and Cheri Soul. Last year, audio engineer and record producer Slade Templeton wrote "How to Use Saturation to Bring Warmth to Your Mixes." In that article, he details what type of saturation works best for which use-case and how to set up these different techniques directly in your digital audio workstation. Today, we're highlighting tape saturation plugins-emulations of the specific type of saturation that occurs when the incoming audio signal has exceeded the limits of analog tape, creating an often pleasing, subtle, and warm distortion effect.īelow, we'll hear how a set of tracks take on different characteristics as they're run through 10 different tape saturation plugins. Thankfully, there are many digital plugins that emulate analog saturation. While there are many ways to add such harmonics to any signal chain, using analog tape equipment isn't always feasible for artists making music today. This type of harmonic distortion is the very essence of what makes analog hardware sound so musical and pleasing to the ears. Since the beginning of the modern recording industry, the sounds of tape, tubes, and transistors being pushed past their limits have been an integral part of the music emanating from your speakers.
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