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But thanks for reading this far, the more you know, etc etc. It's a great way to bring the heat without losing the clarity and punch you need to cut through a mix. However, when you boost any of the bands, it distorts that band alone.

This plugin looks and operates like a graphic equalizer, splitting sounds into 31 bands.

(Incidentally, I learned these from two of the smartest professors I've ever worked with-who also happen to be the brains behind the UAD plugins)Īaaaanyhow, the result is Picante, a 31-band saturator. With the knowledge of some pretty amazing saturation algorithms and other miscellaneous codemonkey business, I set out to make a distortion plugin that could be used to surgically target specific frequencies within a track while leaving the rest untouched-great if you want to heat things up without frying the whole thing. It took forever to dial in the right sounds and this stuck in my head as a problem to be solved.įast forward several years and cranky old Dr. On top of that, pedals designed with guitar in mind usually offer TOO MUCH distortion for vocals-I literally couldn't turn the gain down enough. But this was always a delicate balancing act: too little distortion and the voice sounds thin, too much and it loses its definition and gets lost in the mix. A guitarist myself, I owned a treasure trove of top-notch distortion pedals that I would employ in cases such as these. As I'm sure you know, distortion often plays a central role in giving a vocal sound the right 'bark'. I spent a good deal of time mixing tracks for a well-known indie rapper on Epitaph. SuperHoax was a recording engineer in the great state of Rhode Island. Grab a drink, this might take a minute.īack in the day, a younger and more handsome Dr. Ok, story time-gather round, gather round.
