When the DRIVE knob is raised, the output is also lowered in Vinyl, allowing you to get just the saturation without the changes to volume. When placed lightly, we get a little grit which gives the sound a very cool feel.
When cranked up, we get a very lo-fi style saturation. The sound has more grit with it on and even sounds fatter.Ībbey Road Vinyl is a faithful emulation of the vinyl cutting machine found in Abbey Road Studios, and allows you to add the warmth and texture of analog records, as well as saturation style effects.įor this article we will be focusing on the saturation related features. It’s been applied to the Bass, so lets compare how this sounds with/without the plugin. Next we have the Abbey Road Vinyl plugin. It will honestly create more drastic changes in your sound than the Saturator. Though the signal may sound a little squashed when set to the max, by making subtle adjustments you can get more punch and body out of your drums. Once you’ve found a good sound, try adjusting the blend. The saturated frequency band will change greatly depending on the ratio and filter settings. This format was originally used to reduce noise on tape. It works by first by compressing the signal, running it through a low/high-pass filter, and then expanding the sound at the end. We’re guessing that this name comes from combining the words compressor and expander. The “secret weapon” feature that is found in the Abbey Road Saturator is none other than the COMPANDER. We can aim for the yellow light if going for a comfortable amount of saturation, or we can aim for red if going for more intense saturated sounds, and these tools allow us to easily make adjustments accordingly. Its best to adjust the input accordingly so that we can focus more on the change in sound. When it’s green there’s still plenty of room to go, yellow is pushing the limit, and red indicates when the sound is distorting/clipping. In this case, we can pay attention to the indicator on the top right. INPUT deteremines the signal level coming into the plugin, and in most cases you adjust it carefully to avoid distorting the sound but because this is a saturator, we can try pushing it to the limit. Though the Abbey Road Saturator is great for saturation as the name implies, the SATURATOR gain knob isn’t the only thing that changes the saturation sound in this plugin.Īnother important parameter to adjust here is the INPUT. The sound becomes dramatically different and cool with this plugin applied. We’ve applied it to some drums, so lets hear how it sounds with/without it.
First lets look at the Abbey Road Saturator.