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Saturation

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  • Airwindows

    An API-style console color adder plugin that uses a dynamic impulse generation method with a continuous spectrum between clean and soft-clip processing.

  • Airwindows

    A Console5 family plugin featuring multi-stage slew clipping that emulates acoustic distance effects, creating the impression of sound traveling through air.

  • Airwindows

    A four-band EQ plugin where each band includes a saturation curve that becomes more prominent as you push the bands harder, allowing for spatial contouring of sounds.

  • Babelson Audio

    BaB Drive simulates the sound of analog tape and the classic tubes (triode, tetrode) in most of the popular DAWs.

  • BPB Bassaturator
    Bedroom Producers Blog

    BPB Bassaturator is a freeware bass booster plugin for Windows and macOS. Designed for bass processing, it combines a push-pull style equalizer with three saturation types to transform ordinary bass sounds into powerful basslines that cut through the mix.

  • BPB Saturator

    $149

    Bedroom Producers Blog

    BPB Saturator is a freeware saturation effect that is lightweight and easy to operate. It utilizes waveshaping to simulate tube and tape saturation. The plugin can work as a subtle saturation tool or a tube-based distortion effect.

  • Magnetite
    Black Rooster

    Tape saturation plugin inspired by Studer reel-to-reel machines. Add warmth, glue and analog grit to drums, vocals and bus.

  • Escalator
    Black Salt Audio

    Escalator takes a complex process of saturation and reduces it down to just one knob. It sounds great on drums, vocals, strings, guitars and anything else you want to stand out in a mix.

  • Beef

    £23.99

    Caelum Audio

    Beef is a multi-effect audio plugin with a sole purpose, to make your tracks sound beefy.

  • Tube Preamp
    DDMF

    A free tube preamp emulation plugin with full control over circuit modeling, featuring adjustable capacitors, resistors, and triode-based preamplifier stages. Originally developed by Philipp Bulling.

  • FA38 Aubergine Console Colour
    DIY Recording Equipment

    A recreation of the class-A transistor circuitry from the channel strip of a rare 1970s Trident console, designed to add fullness, width, and saturation to any signal. It is compatible with the Colour format.

  • DeeTrans
    Dotec Audio

    DeeTrans is an analog transformer emulator plug-in that faithfully reproduces the characteristics of real transformers, adding natural harmonics, density, and warm analog character to digital audio.

  • DeeVoltage
    Dotec Audio

    DeeVoltage is a saturator plugin that adds density and presence to tracks, ranging from subtle harmonic warmth to extreme distortion with its METAL Mode for intense, aggressive tones.

  • Saturn 2
    FabFilter

    FabFilter Saturn 2 is a warm, analog-sounding multiband distortion and saturation plug-in. Available in VST, VST3, AU, CLAP, AAX and AudioSuite formats for Windows and macOS.

  • Tupe

    Tupe

    $129

    Goodhertz

    Tupe combines vacuum tube amplification and magnetic tape recording modeling in a single plugin. It features 9 tube circuit models, 6 analog tape models, an opto-style compressor/limiter, and a 1960s-style ladder filter.

  • Tupe Wow
    Goodhertz

    Tupe Wow combines tube and tape emulation with wow and flutter effects, merging Goodhertz's Tupe and Wow Control plugins into a single processor. It features 8 tube modes, 8 tape machine models, an optical compressor, and a ladder filter in one CPU-efficient plugin.

  • VCME Soft Clip
    Goodhertz

    VCME Soft Clip is the standalone Soft Clip section extracted from Goodhertz's VCME compressor — part limiter, part saturator — combining analog-modeled saturation with a transient/steady-state-separating limiter to add presence and polish while preserving natural dynamics.

  • Cortisol Legend
    Herzlich Labs

    A 4hp Eurorack saturation and distortion module with dual op-amp gain stages and switchable diode types, including genuine Cold War-era Germanium diodes.

  • Colour Saturator
    HOFA-Plugins

    The HOFA Colour Saturator delivers authentic saturation and distortion thanks to neural modelling and BiasEQ© – ranging from subtle warmth to extreme fuzz power.

  • SYSTEM Saturator
    HOFA-Plugins

    SYSTEM Saturator is a saturation and distortion plugin with five algorithms (1950s, Germanium, Thermionic, Triode, Tape) emulating tape, tube, triode and transistor character, from subtle saturation to fuzz. It includes hi/low-cut and tilt filters for sound shaping, usable standalone or within HOFA SYSTEM, with a freeware version also available.

  • AnalogStage MK2
    HoRNet

    HoRNet AnalogStage MK2 is an analog console emulation plugin that re-creates those sound characteristics usually associated with analog gear

  • Tape MK2

    Tape MK2

    €19.99

    HoRNet

    HoRNet Tape MK2 is the second version of our tape saturation simulator. It provides you with the classic vintage tape sound

  • TapeLite
    HoRNet

    FREE vintage tape saturation plugin by HoRNet. Add analog warmth with two tape speeds and 4x oversampling. VST3/AU for Mac & Windows.

  • Valvola
    HoRNet

    HoRNet Valvola is an emulation of the electric behaviour of a vacuum tube and its surrounding circuit. It comes with many vacuum tube models

  • Blow Torch
    Joey Sturgis Tones

    JST Blow Torch: Ignite Your Mixes with Dynamic Energy and Punch Introducing JST Blow Torch, a compact but powerful tool for adding dynamic energy and punch to your drums and percussive elements. Whether you're looking to restore vitality to your tracks or create bigger, punchier sounds, JST Blow Torch delivers the power and movement that make your music stand out. Designed for producers who demand high-quality sound with ease, JST Blow Torch is your new favorite plugin for transforming your drum

  • Extra Spice
    Joey Sturgis Tones

    JST Extra Spice: Add Richness and Depth to Your Mixes Introducing JST Extra Spice, the perfect solution for adding harmonic complexity and analog warmth to your tracks. Derived from the popular JST Heat plugin, JST Extra Spice offers a specialized, easy-to-use tool designed to enhance your mixes with frequency-dependent saturation. Whether you're working on a flat-sounding master or looking to add subtle enhancements to individual tracks, JST Extra Spice delivers the richness and depth your musi

  • Heat - Analog Modeled Multi-band Saturation Plugin
    Joey Sturgis Tones

    Meet JST Heat: A powerful and versatile mixing audio plugin from Joey Sturgis Tones. It's a Multiband Distortion and Saturation tool designed for any kind of music creator. With JST Heat, you’re in control of distortion for enhancing, mixing, and creative sound design.

  • Inferno
    Joey Sturgis Tones

    JST Inferno: Ignite Your Mixes with Aggression Introducing JST Inferno, an incredible audio plugin for blending aggressive compression and distortion to create unique, chaotic textures in your tracks. Designed for producers who crave intensity and creativity, JST Inferno pushes your sound into new realms of power and impact. Whether you're working on synths, ambient tracks, or any element that needs a fiery edge, JST Inferno delivers the perfect combination of heat and chaos.

  • Make It Hot
    Joey Sturgis Tones

    JST Make It Hot: Crush Your Low End with Power and Precision Introducing JST Make It Hot, the ultimate tool for crushing your low end with unparalleled precision. Whether you're working on 808s, bass tracks, or any element that needs a powerful, aggressive edge, JST Make It Hot delivers the growl and intensity that makes your low end cut through any mix. Designed for producers who demand low end clarity with ease, JST Make It Hot is your new go-to plugin for transforming your sub and bass tracks

  • Vocal Warmth
    Joey Sturgis Tones

    JST Vocal Warmth: Enhance Your Vocals with Analog Warmth and Depth Introducing JST Vocal Warmth, a versatile audio plugin for adding smooth overdrive and lo-fi vibes to your vocals. Whether you're looking to infuse your tracks with vintage analog feel or enhance the character of your guitars and vocals, JST Vocal Warmth delivers the depth and richness that make your vocals stand out. Designed for producers who demand high-quality sound with minimal effort, JST Vocal Warmth is your new go-to tool

  • True Iron
    Kazrog

    Six legendary hardware transformer models in one plugin. Add analog warmth, heft, and depth used by Dave Pensado, Ross Hogarth, and more. Try it free.

  • Kiive Audio

    Distinct Pro is a saturation and distortion plugin combining a harmonic drive section with a dynamics section for detailed compression management, allowing shaping of transients and saturation.

  • Kiive Audio

    Distinct is a saturation and distortion plugin based on the harmonic saturation of a modern analog modular channel unit, with HF and LF shaping controls before the distortion stage.

  • Kiive Audio

    A tube saturation plugin with three tube circuits and built-in compression for adding warmth or aggressive distortion to any mix element.

  • IVGI

    IVGI

    €0

    Klanghelm

    Free saturation and distortion plugin capable of very soft and subtle saturation suitable for master bus use, as well as dense and dirty distortion effects for individual tracks. Base sound resembles the DESK mode of SDRR. Features dynamic signal response, stereo crosstalk modeling, controlled randomness for liveliness, ASYM MIX control for signal symmetry, and RESPONSE control for frequency-dependent saturation. Calibrated to 0VU = -18dBFS.

  • SDRR

    SDRR

    €23

    Klanghelm

    SDRR is a saturation plugin offering four main modes (TUBE, DIGI, FUZZ and DESK) that react dynamically to the input signal. It can act as a saturation, a compressor, an EQ, a bit-crusher or a subtle stereo widener.

  • FreeAMP
    Klevgrand

    FreeAMP is a tape and tube saturation plugin, a stripped-down version of REAMP. Even though it may look simple, all the algorithms from Klevgrand's amplifying modeler plugin REAMP are still in there, with the favourite profiles from REAMP combined into one universal profile.

  • REAMP

    REAMP

    $59.99

    Klevgrand

    REAMP is a complex spectral saturation processor, simulating a set of different analog gear in a new and unique way. Benefits of this algorithm is that it is highly CPU efficient and adds (almost) no latency.

  • LG Drive
    Kush Audio

    At its heart, LG Drive is an elegantly simple device, a 2-Stage Tube Saturation color-box whose thick, creamy distortions are pulled straight from the AR-1 variable-mµ compressor.

  • Omega 2 458a
    Kush Audio

    The embodiment of an old Altec preamp: a growling, dirty low end giving way to a crisp, slurred 3k-8k. The overall effect is gritty warmth and presence, minus the hard edges.

  • Omega 2 A
    Kush Audio

    Model A vibes like a mic plugged straight into an API console from 1976. Adding a hint of sparkle and sheen, it slowly breaks up into a gritty white cloud of antique saturation.

  • Omega N
    Kush Audio

    Model N nails the sound of the coveted vintage Neve pre it's modeled after. Dark, thick, and round, just a kiss imparts a dusty patina, pushed hard it gets downright fuzzy and soft. Pairs perfectly with the Omega Mic Pre.

  • FET-72 Colour Module
    Louder Than Liftoff

    Classic German channel sound in the Colour format. The FET-72 recreates the V72-style amplifier circuit using JFETs in place of vacuum tubes, with switchable triode or pentode modes, selectable negative feedback, and a 4-position high-cut filter.

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  • Hitmaker 4000 Colour Module
    Louder Than Liftoff

    The Hitmaker 4000 brings solid state British console sound to the Colour format, drawing inspiration from classic 1980s VCA console mixing amplifiers. Recreates the balanced summing architecture with a hybrid combination of a discrete quad-matched transistor input paired with carefully selected NE5534A op-amps to match vintage Signetics components.

  • Mass Drivr Colour Module
    Louder Than Liftoff

    Classic American console sound in the Colour format. The Mass Drivr is inspired by discrete line amplifiers found in vintage 1970s American recording consoles. Features a custom American-made steel output transformer and an integrated 2520-style Rogue Six discrete op amp. Compatible with DIYRE Colour format and Louder Than Liftoff Chroma hosts.

  • Pentode Mk2 Colour Module
    Louder Than Liftoff

    Tone Sculpting Tube Gigantifier for Chroma, Mister Focus, & DIYRE Colour. A tube saturation Colour Module featuring a NOS Raytheon 6418 subminiature pentode tube running near maximum plate voltage, with two selectable bias settings (Rich and Fat) and a 2-band Baxandall EQ inspired by a vintage 1960s tube mixer.

  • TAPE•79 Mojo Module
    Louder Than Liftoff

    TAPE•79 is a fully analog, stereo tape machine emulation module for the expansion slot of the Silver Bullet mk2 that convincingly captures the magnetic magic of 15 IPS tape.

  • TAPE•C Colour Module
    Louder Than Liftoff

    A fully analog tape machine emulation module for the DIYRE Colour format (Chroma, Mister Focus, DIYRE Colour Palette, Silver Bullet mk2) that captures the character of 15 IPS tape recording — including distortion, saturation, low-frequency head bump, high-frequency response shifts, and phase shifts. Single-channel, simplified sibling of the TAPE•79 Mojo Module for the Silver Bullet mk2.

  • Align Series Session
    LR BAGGS

    Inspired by our live video sessions, the Align Session brings studio quality saturation and multi-band compression to your pedalboard. Often used by studio engineers in post-production, saturation adds warmth, dimension, and harmonics to craft a rich sonic character for your acoustic signal.

  • 413 Tape Saturator
    MIA Laboratories

    The 413 Tape Saturator reproduces the non-linear characteristics that would result when overdriving analog tape, as magnetic saturation occurs with increasing amplitude of the 'recorded' signal. It offers 3 different types of analog tape, as well as 3 different types of distortion.

  • 980 SPARK
    MIA Laboratories

    980 SPARK is a unit that consists of three modules: compressor, colour and saturator. This plugin was especially designed to help enrich and thicken audio content with minimum of effort, without compromising quality and usability. It is a handy tool for sound design, as well as a sophisticated saturation unit.

  • Blue Clipper
    Nembrini Audio

    Converter-style clipping and saturation for louder, denser, more controlled mixes. Blue Clipper is modeled on the Lavry Blue 4496, capturing the character of its saturation and clipping behavior in a simple, modern plug-in format.

  • LoFi Vintage Clipper
    Nembrini Audio

    Nembrini Audio LoFi Vintage Clipper plugin is designed to add grit and weight to your mix with two distinctive custom-designed saturation algorithms. Use it to add presence and density to your tracks and control transients like the biggest Mix Engineers.

  • PSA1000 Analog Saturation Unit
    Nembrini Audio

    PSA1000 Analog Saturation plugin is a modern recreation of a '90s classic analog guitar preamp used in recording studios all around the world. It adds independent left and right channel controls, Mid/Side operation, a stereo Spread circuit and an Analog Link circuit on top of the modeled original.

  • PSA1000 Jr Analog Saturation Unit
    Nembrini Audio

    PSA1000 Analog Saturation plugin is a modern recreation of a '90s classic analog guitar preamp used in recording studios all around the world. It is used for recording and characterizing guitars as well as electric pianos, organs, synthesizers, electric basses and many other instruments.

  • The Voltour 2 Channel All Valve Enhancer
    Nembrini Audio

    Nembrini Audio The Voltour 2 Channel All Valve Enhancer plugin is based on the Thermionic Culture The Culture Vulture unit. It extends the possibilities of the original hardware with a Mix parameter for parallel processing, a continuous Filter parameter, a Phase parameter, auto wet output leveling and a Link parameter.

  • Viator Haze
    Neunaber

    A tape-emulation plugin featuring saturation, wow & flutter modulation, and a tape delay effect for adding analog-flavored warmth and character to digital tracks.

  • Saturate
    Newfangled Audio

    Saturate clips without clipping, adding loudness and grit while its Detail Preservation algorithm keeps the fine detail other clippers lose.

  • BIG AL

    BIG AL

    $29.99

    Plugin Alliance

    Dual-stage tube saturator offering a broad palette of sound flavors from its interactive transformer-coupled pre and power amp. Based on completely novel circuitry and authentic NOS components from the 1930s.

  • HG-2

    HG-2

    $29.99

    Plugin Alliance

    High-end tube processor that emulates four different vacuum tube stages combined in series and parallel circuits. Makes tracks sound richer, fuller, louder, bigger, and punchier at the same peak level.

  • HG-2MS

    HG-2MS

    $39.99

    Plugin Alliance

    Mid/side version of the acclaimed HG-2 tube and transformer saturation unit. Helps mixes sound louder, bigger, and punchier with sweet tubes and creamy-sounding transformers, plus advanced filters for greater sonic refinement.

  • karacter

    karacter

    $39.99

    Plugin Alliance

    Discrete Class A Stereo Saturator modeled after the elysia hardware. Fattens and adds sparkle to tracks with unique coloring capabilities.

  • Machine Head
    Plugin Alliance

    Digital tape saturator plugin built from the original hardware code by SPL and SoundArt. Captures the magic of the discontinued Machine Head hardware unit using the latest advancements in hardware modelling.

  • OCELOT Clipper
    Plugin Alliance

    Peak shaper for peak reduction and mastering dynamics, empowering you to create more headroom, shape harmonics and deliver energetic mixes.

  • Phil's Cascade
    Plugin Alliance

    Analog saturation and color plugin modeled after a one-of-a-kind hardware unit made from highly esoteric vintage components. A toolbox that opens a world of interesting sonic flavors.

  • SA2RATE 2
    Plugin Alliance

    Solid-state saturation plugin that adds low-order harmonics while smoothly evening out sounds. Increases RMS level without raising peaks, adding analog character with custom-tailored saturation for clearer lows and smoother highs.

  • SILVER BULLET mk2
    Plugin Alliance

    Saturation and sweetening plugin that applies a combination of effects to shape the tone of individual tracks, instrument busses, and stereo mixdowns. Adds the character normally only found in studios with Massive analog recording consoles.

  • THE OVEN

    THE OVEN

    $39.99

    Plugin Alliance

    Colorful "Mojo Box" designed to add warmth, size, depth, color, and sizzle to any sound source. Combines tubes and solid state saturation for subtle hi-fi enhancement to aggressive drive on individual tracks, stems, groups, or mastering chains.

  • TwinTube

    TwinTube

    $29.99

    Plugin Alliance

    Analog tube warmth processor that adds brightness and fatness to vocal and instrument tracks. Increases perceived loudness without changing actual gain.

  • VSM-3

    VSM-3

    $29.99

    Plugin Alliance

    A powerful tone and color box, saturator, and distortion unit with two unique circuitry options: a 2nd Harmonic FET Crusher and a 3rd Harmonic Zener Blender. Modeled after the Vertigo VSM-2 hardware unit.

  • WUNDERLICH
    Plugin Alliance

    A unique color box plugin combining rare analog components for vintage vibes and lo-fi textures. Powered by ultra-rare Arcturus vacuum tubes, drenching mixes in tones not heard since the 1930s.

  • MicroWarmer
    PSP Audioware

    PSP MicroWarmer delivers the rich, analog-style warmth and punch of PSP VintageWarmer in a streamlined, single-band design. Ideal for individual tracks, it combines transparent limiting with smooth tape-like saturation, all with ultra-low latency.

  • Saturator
    PSP Audioware

    The new PSP Saturator brings a new updated sound engine to a classic PSP Audioware plug-in! With a brand new UI, refined algorithms, and many under-the-hood enhancements, this new addition to the PSP Audioware lineup is ready to bring some heat into a production.

  • Color Drive
    Relab

    A saturation plugin built on real analog circuit modeling, featuring the Relab 176's variable-gain 6BC8 tube circuit with input/output transformers. Offers true hardware saturation in software form with drive control ranging from subtle warmth to bold crunch, calibration control for bias adjustment and harmonic tuning, low-end crossover filter, and pre/post tilt emphasis filters.

  • StandardCLIP
    SIR Audio Tools

    Over the years, our now-iconic clipper has earned its well-deserved recognition among many big names in the music industry and has been used as a secret weapon in the tracks for various major artists. Get StandardCLIP now and use it to increase the volume of your mix or to add unique harmonics to your signal.

  • British Class A Drive
    Softube

    The famous British analog console drive. Authentic, unmistakable British console character from a precisely emulated console drive.

  • Drawmer 1976 Three Band Saturator
    Softube

    A meticulous model of the original Drawmer 1976 Stereo Three Band Saturation and Width Processor. Three independent bands of saturation and stereo width control.

  • Overstayer M-A-S
    Softube

    Shape, sculpt, and saturate in high-fidelity. A harmonic shaper that energizes tracks, glues buses, and adds edge to mixes through precise emulation of the hardware unit.

  • Saturation Knob
    Softube

    A free modeled output distortion plugin useful for fattening up drums and bass, adding harmonics to vocals, and creating grit in any mix.

  • puffer:fish
    sonible

    puffer:fish is a free saturation plug-in from sonible that makes a track sound richer, fuller or more aggressive. Three pufferfish characters sit at the centre of the interface and react visually as the saturation is pushed harder.

  • Soundtheory

    Kraftur has been carefully engineered to enrich your mix, allowing you to increase power while preserving the original integrity of its dynamics. Using proprietary DSP methods, Kraftur relies on innovative algorithms to avoid artifacts that come with more traditional approaches to soft clipping.

  • Decapitator
    Soundtoys

    Analog saturation modeler featuring five hardware-inspired distortion models, an analog tone control, and mix knob for parallel processing.

  • Radiator
    Soundtoys

    Dual drive tube input channel and EQ plugin modeled after the Altec 1567A tube mixer from the 1960s, with independent input/output stages and transformer loading options.

  • Deep Vintage
    Three-Body Technology

    Suite of legendary hardware simulation plugins using proprietary APNN 2.0 (Audio Processing Neural Network) technology. Includes 12 plugins simulating preamps, tape machines, EQs, and converters to reproduce vintage analog character in a digital world.

  • OwnTHD
    Three-Body Technology

    Audio processor for customizing harmonic distortion. Simulates nine vintage equipment types plus three ideal circuit modules (solid-state, tube, tape) with adjustable drive, bias, feedback, depth, and sweet spot parameters.

  • Sapphire Drive
    Three-Body Technology

    Sapphire Drive is a transparent saturation plugin designed for immediate sonic enhancement across any audio track. It offers four saturation modes (Bloom, Tape I, Tape II, and Thick) with an integrated tone control and up to 16x oversampling.

  • Tape Vibe
    Three-Body Technology

    A mild-to-moderate saturator designed to add vintage tape character to modern productions, delivering analog-inspired harmonic richness while maintaining transients and mix clarity.

  • ReelBus 4
    Toneboosters

    Magnetic tape recording, echo and flanger simulator covering everything from the 80s compact cassette sound to professional 30-IPS studio recorders. Adds tape hysteresis, saturation, compression and musical wow-and-flutter, with tape echo and flanger effects as a bonus.

  • HELPER Saturator 2
    WA Production

    A saturation plugin with tube and tape distortion modules and a pair of low pass and high pass filters for shaping the saturated signal. It can process the stereo signal, the mid, the side, the left or the right channel alone.

  • Punchy Worm
    WA Production

    Punchy Worm is a one knob punch and saturation processor, with a single central dial that applies transient shaping in one direction and saturation in the other, combined with upward and downward compression. An animated worm in the interface reacts to the incoming audio.

  • Tube Saturator 2
    WaveArts

    Tube Saturator 2 is a super accurate circuit simulation of a tube pre-amp with analog EQ, which can be overdriven gently for warming effects, or cranked for fat distortion.

  • Tube Saturator Vintage
    WaveArts

    Tube Saturator Vintage is a free reissue of the original Tube Saturator. It uses circuit simulation technology to faithfully reproduce the sound of a dual triode preamp.

  • Abbey Road Saturator
    Waves

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

  • BB Tubes

    BB Tubes

    $34.99

    Waves

    Huge-sounding tube saturation which makes any vocal or instrument jump out of the speakers. From delicate to aggressive analog brilliance, BB Tubes makes your mixes sound expensive and brings your music to life.

  • Waves

    Harmonic shaping plugin offering eleven unique saturation modes for adding color, warmth, and presence to audio.

  • J37 Tape Saturation
    Waves

    The Waves: Abbey Road J37 Tape Saturation plugin, modeled on the machine used to record many of the greatest masterpieces in modern music, brings analog warmth to digital recordings.

  • Lil Tube
    Waves

    Add rich tube fatness & saturation on every track in your mix – your own tube console. Custom-modeled analog sound in the company of fabled tube preamps, Lil Tube is a plugin you’ll feel.

  • Scheps Parallel Particles
    Waves

    Discover new tone-shaping possibilities with the signature sound of Grammy-winning mixing engineer Andrew Scheps (Adele, Jay Z, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Lana Del Rey).

  • Spectre
    Waves Factory

    Spectre is an audio plugin that combines the best features of a sonic enhancer and a graphical parametric EQ. It applies high quality saturation just where you want it to.

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