Ernie Gray

Where you place saturation and distortion in your signal chain can significantly impact the levels of unpleasant intermodulation distortion in your mix.

DSP engineering has come a long way in implementing fantastic sounding saturation designs for the ITB mix engineer. To understand saturation, let’s look at the flavors of saturation we encounter in both analog and digital domains to gain a better understanding of how and why they sound.

Nearly eighteen years after the first freeware cross-platform version of ReaComp was introduced, it still provides one of the most extensive ranges of control parameters in a compressor. Exploring its features serves as a primer on compression.

You know the old saying, “the right tools for the job…”