Tube saturation, isn't the idea to add distortion to a clean digital source, to make it sound more analog, to emulate a tube's imperfections, perhaps "warm up" a digital sound source ?
Just back the knob off. It only works when it's subtle.
munmun . . . I may be wrong, but I think the console emulator is the only prochannel "stand alone" plugin.
Freddy would like all the prochannel modules to be stand alone VST. Since it hasn't happened yet, it might not.