Anderton
I use the Console Emulator because it provides a sort of clarity that I believe does improve the music's emotional impact by giving it a slight amount of (for lack of a better term) "presence."

Thanks, Craig. Your latest Friday tip and the videos I mention in the OP definitely have me rethinking the way I've been using the console emulations.
 

ArcRex
I like to put the Tube Saturation in front of the AmpSim(in a fxchain) in the Prochannel an use it as a preamp to the Amp Sim. I don't use any drive, I just adjust the input to a nice clean sound then I increase the output to make the amp sim break up. It sounds right to me. 

Thanks for this, too. I noticed Craig had the Tube Saturation module in his Friday tip screenshot. Usually, the Softube knob gets all the love.

ArcRex
It sounds right to me. 

And really...nothing else matters 

Anderton

ArcRex
It sounds right to me. 

And really...nothing else matters 

Unless you have clients that disagree.

Published today by Sweetwater...
 
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/8-best-mic-preamps-for-recording-vocals

telecharge
On a somewhat unrelated note, two of the guys that run PT Expert said this would be their choice as their desert island "harmonics" plug-in. I found that interesting. I know saturation/distortion adds harmonics, but I've not seen the Sat. Knob referred to that way.
 

Saturation, whether created in an SSL pre's transformers, a Mesa Boogie head or a cheap fuzz pedal, is always a combination of harmonics and compression.

Softube's Saturation Knob is very good. I'm generally reluctant to use much digitally created saturation/distortion because I often feel it lacks something I can't define but can "feel" when compared to transformers, valves, diode clipping, transistor fuzzes etc., but the Sat Knob is something I use and find musical. If I could only have one saturation plugin that would be it.

D16's Devastator 2 is also pretty good, and Waves' Saphira are also pretty good in my opinion, perhaps because they're subtle as such things go, don't try and overdo things and blend nicely rather than sounding like a "glued on" addition to the original audio. At least, that's how they strike me.

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