Abbey Road Saturator

Accurate recreation of tube & solid-state analog saturation flavors

Musical analog saturation & distortion from the legendary Abbey Road Studios: The sound of classic tubes and transistors, driven hard from subtle to extreme, and excited by the ultra-rare EMI TG12321—a secret weapon of Abbey Road engineers.

Saturation is the heart and soul of analog recording and mixing—from the subtle soft clipping of a tube preamp, which adds warmth and pleasing harmonics to a drum or vocal part; to full-blown console distortion that makes a synth, bass or guitar part ‘sing’ in the mix.

Features

• Created in collaboration with Abbey Road Studios

• Accurate recreation of crunchy tube & smooth solid-state analog saturation flavors

• The rare EMI TG12321 Compander excites the input pre-saturation: a method pioneered by the 1st generation of Abbey Road pop engineers

• Detailed pre- and post-gain EQ to shape the distortion character

• Phase knob dramatically alters the distortion sound

• Flexible control of the Compander’s crossover frequencies

• M/S processing allows distortion to affect just mid or just sides

• Mix control to blend the saturated/distorted signal with the original signal

• Presets by Grammy®-winning producers & engineers Lu Diaz, Joe Barresi, Dave Pensado, many more