The way you SHOULD be using saturation plugins.

Putting FabFilter Saturn to some real life music production scenarios, demonstrating how to lift out detail in your tracks, enhance the timbre of what's already present and add usable texture and presence to your elements.

Hear in this tutorial how you can combine these aspects to create a really nice transformative effect, turning a plain musical loop into something much more interesting, engaging and atmospheric sounding.

It's simple, it's easy to do and you can take away the key elements here to help transform your tracks regardless of the genres you work with and produce.

Grab the gear used in this tutorial video

FabFilter - Saturn 2: the saturation plugin this tutorial puts to work, from subtle tube and tape warmth to wild multiband distortion

More saturation plugins we stock

Soundtoys - Decapitator: five modelled hardware saturation styles that react to what you feed them

Wave Arts - Tube Saturator 2: full circuit-simulated tube preamp, gentle warmth to crunchy distortion

Wave Alchemy - Tapewave: cassette saturation, compression and wow and flutter, modelled from real machines

D16 - Devastor 2: multiband diode-clipper distortion for drums, basses and acid lines