Saturation is one of the most misunderstood and underused plugins in mixing – it adds warmth, punch and depth to your mix, and can give it a high quality, “expensive”- sounding sheen.
At some point in the music production journey, EVERY successful producer and engineer I know has at some point stumbled across the revelation of saturation and distortion.
Saturation really is an integral part of the process when it comes to creating amazing-sounding mixes, and it doesn’t even have to cost you anything.
There are some incredible free plugins out there on the market, and I’ll share them with you later in this post.
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If you'd like to take your saturation skills to the next level after reading our new post, head on over and grab Step By Step Mixing. It has an entire chapter on saturation and how to use it to add that extra warmth to your tracks.