I've been using this thing called a Shakti Mat recently.
It's an "accupressure" mat you torture yourself with.
It's basically a soft mat underneath tons of spikes that
look kind of like the spikes underneath golf shoes.
The first minute you lie on it it's extremely painful. The spikes are digging into your skin and I would say that you're writhing in pain but honestly, you're trying your best to lie still so that you don't rub the spikes further into your back.
But then...
Something happens. I'm not a doctor, or even a quack health guru on the internet, so I couldn't tell you exactly what happens biologically, but it starts to feel...comfortable.
You start relaxing into the spikes, blood starts rushing to your back and a warm feeling envelops you.
And usually, this intense meditation puts me right to sleep on the floor.
Although it's spiky and irritating
to start, it actually warms and softens my body up and gives me a deeper sleep and more mental clarity.
(The kind of mental clarity where you're compelled to write about your new-age torture devices and spread it around to thousands of people like you...)
It's similar to saturation in your mix.
You might not understand how it works to begin with. So you add too much and your mix becomes distorted and destroyed.
But then you ease off the intensity and it starts to
warm up your mix and soften your high-end.
It adds extra low-end thickness to your kick drum, additional harmonics to your bass, and character to your vocals.
And even if you want to add "too much" saturation, it's easy to do it in
parallel and blend it in with the original track.
That way you get some edge and harmonic distortion that can help your tracks cut through.
We show you this technique in detail inside the Audio Issues Ultimate EQ course that's bundled
with my complete EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ bundle you can get right here.
Enjoy!
Björgvin