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Saturation, Harmonics, Clipping | Create Headroom for Louder Mixes

Mixing Music | Music Production, Audio Engineering, & Music Business

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How to Test Plugins for Harmonic Saturation

If you're on Pro Tools, you can just go to Audio Suite, select a range of audio. You can actually put plugins on and see how much it generates because if it's a clean 100 Hertz sine wave, then you should see if it’s a tube. Some things add no harmonic saturation, for example,. Leslie Brathway has really brought this to the mainstream attention, is the voice of God from universal audio. It's literally just a clean, high-pass filter with a bump that's all it is.

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