Put me in the camp of being 'done' with micing physical amps. For cleaner sounds I really like Logic's Amp Designer. Close enough that it's not worth the hassle of setting them up. If I wish to I can get ridiculously close to the sound of my mic'ed amps. I'm getting excellent results for semi-dirty to heavily over-driven sounds with Guitar Rig 4. Really, I've gotten beyond tired of A/Bing and trying new sims or speakers or mics or what have you. And I own and have extensive experience with the AxeTrack and Grendel Deadroom II speaker isolation cabinets, Palmer PDI-03 (along with a small assortment of amps). But I've tried so many software modelers. I've run the same tracks from Brazill and Cheri Soul through each of these plugins-check out the embedded playlists below to hear these processors in action.Won't belabor this stuff too much. Each one adds a different harmonic coloration and character to the audio. (Along this path, I crafted custom Reverb Exclusive presets for each processor, which are available for free here.) Listen to the individual instrument and master mixes here to start:įeaturing companies from all over the globe, the following plugin manufacturers all have a different takes on what they wanted in a tape saturator tool-from the product design concepts and digital signal processing to the settings, interfaces, and more. I processed the audio from the guitar, drums, vocals, keys/synths, and the master two-track mixes through 10 of my favorite tape saturation plugins on Reverb. 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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