Let's saturate! Harmonic enhancement demoed with SSL's X-Saturator plug-in
Harmonic enhancement is an important part of the production process. It's important to understand aurally what it does. Here you can hear and see the SSL X-Saturator plug-in tested on a simple sine wave, from moderate enhancement to extreme distortion. Check out the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Course at bit.ly/3W3tpKo
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Default settings
1:35 Drive control
2:50 Depth control
3:49 Harmonics control
5:47 Mix control
6:47 Shape control
8:15 Boost control (+6 dB)
11:26 Distortion
13:10 Presets
15:39 Summary and conclusion
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wow what a crisp and well lit portrait image. That is some production value right there. Thanks for the product demo!
thanks for this. just got this plugin and your review is probably the best I've seen on youtube. I've subscribed for more! cheers!
Thx David! Your explanation really helped my understanding, appreciate it🙏🙏🙏 I absolutely love this saturator
This plugin is great. it reacts really different to different source material. It sounds great on a wide range of instruments acoustic, samples, and synths.
very cool demonstration! Tanks a lot!
sound aside, you really nailed the video micro-contrast, great lighting
Yes! Everything about demonstrating with the wave. 💯 👏 🔥
Useful video, great to see a fellow Brit with a KZread channel 🤠
great knowledge in this class, big up!
What a video. Subscribed
Thanx. This is how all plugins should be walked through 👍🏻
Appreciate your effort!
nice overview, thanks!!
@AudioMasterclass
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome. DM
Muito boa sua aula, estou aprendendo usar saturação e acho esse plugin muito mais não conseguia chegar no som que eu buscava,mais sua explicação me ajudou muito obrigado,inscrição confirmada com sucesso abraço fica com Deus 🙏🎸
Nice experiment
Wow, this thing is great.
Thanks, I’ve always found this plugin difficult to understand
Thank you! :D
This video reminds me of a hearing test I had in the 80s as a kid
Can you demonstrate this with an actual preamp or a channel strip hardware?
How would compare this to Waves NLS?
OMG, a Sir Paul McCartney impersonator!
has he oversampling/anti alaising?
So with the Harmonics knob, there is always odd order harmonics no matter what?
@AudioMasterclass
2 жыл бұрын
In my tests, the odd-order harmonics are always present. DM
Is that you Paul?.
@carlosp.1846
2 жыл бұрын
Went straight to the comments to see who else was noticing it:)
@bourianboubbov9937
9 ай бұрын
Hahaha! I had the same thought... That summer of Love perhaps. Joking aside, thank you for your tine and sharing your knowledge! Much appreciated!
@Kaizoku_apex
4 ай бұрын
He faked his death so he could live the quiet life reviewing SSL plugins for the next generation 😂
whtever camera you are using is badass
@AudioMasterclass
2 жыл бұрын
Sony Alpha A6600 with 16-50mm lens. DM
Prefer Fabfilters Saturn2 but have to accept x-saturator is a nice clean simple GUI. Would it not be great if a modern amp had this built in to emulate tape/valve harmonics and make those awful sounding digital sources sound more analogue, natural and warm. But wait, you could add a audio interface to your signal chain and do this on your computer making your inexpensive amp sound like a really expensive one with some simple tweaking. You can even add it to JRiver media player, you dont even need to use a DAW and make all those horrible digital files come alive and sound lush and wonderful just like a vinyl record does
Ringo hated when he did this
Excellent Work Thank You very much
This is very in depth but you should have used this on a sine wave for one minute and the rest of the video on real instruments. It’s fun to look at the harmonics but this is merely a lab test, not an indication of how it will be used or sound in an actual song.
@AudioMasterclass
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment but, as I said in the video, this is a sine wave test. That's the video I set out to make. There may, also as I said in the video, be a vocal and instrument version in future. DM