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This gives great flexibility to shape signal processing. Rather excellently you can position this pre, post, or even both pre and post. Rounding things off is a regular high-pass filter (5Hz to 250Hz). Then there’s a post-saturation Makeup control.

Following this is a Smooth control that, when increased, gradually reduces harshness and aliasing. This is really handy when combining the Low saturation and main saturation engines as it allows you to prevent too much overlap. This influences the main saturation engine and we found it great for focusing the processing away from the lower frequencies. Next up, you have a sidechain high-pass filter (10Hz to 1kHz). It’s designed to reduce aliasing, particularly with heavy processing. This applies the x4 quad oversampling algorithm and from the block diagram we can see this affects the High and Saturation processing engines, though not the Low saturation engine that precedes them. This Internal Board contains five options alongside some retro-inspired circuitboard graphics. Saturator has an advanced parameters panel at the bottom. Meanwhile for vocals there’s subtle (Warm Lead Vocal) and not so subtle (Megaphone). With 40 drum presets you’ve got everything from subtle drum bus patches (Massive Analogue Mojo) and drum specific options ( Snare Alive, 808 Saturation) to more extreme mangling style patches (Blitzed Drum Loop, Industrial Grind). But you’ve also got patches that are great for adding or even removing low end weight. As you would expect, there are patches for adding presence to a sub, or edge to bass guitar.

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This makes finding a suitable preset very easy indeed and you can really get a feel for what PSP Saturator does in a matter of minutes.

Groupings include usage type (Mastering, Mix), saturation type (Tape, Valve, Drive) and also instrument type (Drums, Vocals, Keys and so on). You can really get a feel for what PSP Saturator does in a matter of just minutes PSP Saturator’s 200 presets provide a great springboard, not only because there are plenty to choose from, but also because they are properly categorised. High, meanwhile, adds odd harmonics and the frequency control helps you specify where they begin to kick in. So, with a low frequency setting (50Hz for example), you’ll only introduce harmonics up to about 300Hz, but open up the control and you’re moving up to the 1kHz to 1.5kHz mark. Low adds a specific harmonic balance with both odd and even harmonics and the frequency setting lets you tailor the upper frequency limit. The two additional processors provide excellent sonic extension. This is far more in keeping with real world saturation behaviours, and something that isn’t always replicated that well in plugins. Indeed, one thing which is very apparent and we particularly like about PSP Saturator is that, as you change the saturation amount, not only do you get harmonics, but the overall frequency balance is also affected. Meanwhile, for the more aggressive settings, although Hard Clip has the most dominant higher harmonics, we are particularly drawn to the Ram setting, with its distinctly non-linear scooped harmonic shape. At the lower end we particularly like the difference between Hard Valve, which has strong lower harmonics but then tails off quickly, and Medium Valve, which has a more linear distortion across the higher harmonics.

But take both subjectively – and looking at the analyser – each setting has quite a specific harmonics balance primarily made up of odd harmonics.

As noted, the general trend is from light to heavy as you move clockwise. Saturator’s core shapes offer an impressive selection of flavours. Finally, you have Input and Output controls with reverse linking, a wet/dry Mix control with internal intelligent phase alignment and a final Output Shaping process (Off, Sat and Limit). At the bottom, an additional fold-down panel includes some additional parameters (see box out). Meanwhile, saturation depth is indicated by yellow/red LEDs for each of the three saturation engines. Although PSP Saturator doesn’t include a frequency analyser, there’s still plenty of metering, with peak and VU meters and a choice of metering sources.

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