Essential saturation tips: how to bring warmth and richness to your mix

Adjusting saturation can elevate your mix by adding warmth, depth, and richness to the sound, making it more vibrant and full-bodied. Watch as Sam Loose shares different ways to benefit from saturation in your mix. Whether you’re helping your mids cut through the mix with saturation or you’re looking to add grit to your sound, this video will help you understand the major ways saturation can enhance your mix.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Defining saturation
02:30 - Flavors of saturation
04:33 - Saturation for presence
07:21 - Multiband saturation
09:38 - Parallel saturation
11:22 - The importance of contrast
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[@TrueFallacy]

I use the Supercharger GT on drums all the time now, it’s a very nice vari-mu style tube compressor that adds noticeable saturation and character to the signal as it compresses

[@matthewchavezm.b.s5503]

A good tip is... if you have access to each individual sound than apply saturation separate rather than over all of the entire sound. Takes drums for instance. The main components are kick, snare, hats, toms. etc. You may not want saturation on the kick, or maybe only on the kick. Or 50% saturation sounds great on the snare but makes the high hats to washed out. So independent control is key to make it sound pro. There are ways of course to improve the sound if you only have stems or one master file but that normally involves separating the low and high frequencies of each sound to apply the proper saturation or other fx correctly.

[@slimproge1]

I definitely like the delicate saturation of the tape and the warm tube on basically everything ;) and when it comes to distortion, the old trash2 does the job

[@ryan_raus]

The supercharger GT sounded great on the snare

[@IanGibsonmusic]

You do not need all of these effects. Many DAWs have excellent saturation plugins built in which achieve most of the effects shown here, eg Cubase. Remember once dependent on a plugin, you are committed to future updates/versions which might cost you more.

[@David-wx5po]

How can I use saturation as a coupling circuit

[@chanceneck8072]

I have the exact same problem, I always have when someone teaches me about compression or when I apply compressors on my mix: I can't even hear a single difference between when the effect is applied and when it's not.... 😅🤭😔
5:16 was the first point where I could hear a difference.

[@bboymac84]

That juicy fruit sample tho…

[@fluncovered]

You said overtones are multiples of the fundamental, this isn't strictly correct, you should of said harmonics which are a type of overtone. All frequencies above the fundamental are overtones, but only harmonics are the type of overtone that are integer multiples of the fundamental, non integers of the fundamental are still overtones but are non harmonic.