Crossover into Saturationīut in this situation, Rich is keeping it relatively simple. You can select from one of 16 distortion varieties for each band, including tube, tape, guitar amp, and even one called “Destroy.” You can even apply an array of modulators. You can create up to six frequency bands, each with its own set of controls, and set the crossover points wherever you want. Saturn has an in-depth feature set for a saturation plug-in. This segment focuses on his use of Saturn. In this case, he uses three plug-ins on the master bus, the UAD Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor FabFilter Saturn, which is a multiband saturation plug-in and the FabFilter L-2 limiter. Ring Around the Planetįirst up in the excerpt, we find Rich demonstrating his mixing techniques on a song called “Hero” by Nicky G. That point is made clear in our latest excerpt, which comes from two videos, “Rich Keller - Mixing Hip Hop Vocals,” and “Rich Keller Deconstructing Nipsey Hustle, ‘Grindin’ All My Life’.” You’ll see Rich treat the master bus with harmonic saturation, a type of processing he’ll sometimes use instead of compression. I do notice that it gets cpu intensive, especially when adding modulation envelopes and the like, so it doesn't completely replace everything else.When you use a processing plug-in on the master bus or in a mastering session, your settings are particularly critical because you’re affecting the entire mix, not just one track. I didn't realize how multi-featured this was before opening and playing around with it, so no buyer's remorse.
I don't play super-clean, but my level of overdrive typically is late 70's era The Jam as opposed to grunge or metal. I got it, though it's expensive for an iOS app. It really does sound like a good tape recording depending on what you feed through it. It's very subtle through iOS speakers but with monitors or headphones applying the warm tape algorithm on Instruments and the mix is just incredible. The last remaining hold out was a really good J-37 type Waves Abbey Road style tape emulator. But I quickly saw I wanted to use them everywhere, and with AU versions we got that. I loved the FabFilter plugs available in Auria when I first started on iOS in 2015, they were what cinched it when I retired my laptop to the closet. I wanted a top quality tube compressor for bus compression and now we have the DDMF MDE stuff. The plugins I missed from my laptop ProTools rig when I first got into iOS have all been brought to iOS in one form or another (save for a Melodyne style vocal tuning plugin).
I've had Saturn in Auria for years but this new version really is a different animal all together. But still far and away the best substitute when there’s no amp available. Every setting found me having to drag the bass EQ to -8-10 db. I will say I compared the tweed and voxes to my Strymon Iridium equivalents, and they compared nicely, except for some unnatural low end in the FF that gives it away from being a true amp replacement. I guess it is after all a distortion plug-in) (Edit: the American Tweed is really the only one close to clean at 0 gain. I’m trying to replicate “The Tube” preset from Saturn one that adds envelope followers and some other stuff to mimic better the dynamics of a tube amp. I definitely won’t go so far as to say ‘pristine’. There’s still quite a bit of distortion with them at 0 gain, the Vox rock one less so than the pop.I would call that almost ‘clean’ in my point of view since I play pretty softly, but you may want to hear some demos first to judge for yourself. At last a suitable guitar amp solution for iOS.Ĭleaner, non-metal amps as well? When you say British pop, do you mean Vox both clean and dirty?
I wasn’t expecting this much of an improvement/new features. Some killer new distortion models, especially the tweed, british pop amps and then the new special fx and transformers.