I need iOSaturation!!

audiblevideo

Flection mentioned by @flo26
great not AU, but great controls and lots of signal flexibility. Lots of adjustable curves and sliders to dial in up to 4 profiles which then can be cross faded between.

ReAmp
Great presets to start with on top of lots of knob shaping

+1 for apesoft stuff

reasOne

@CracklePot that amp one freebie looks really nice.. Gonna start there a s the price is right haha

reasOne

@reasOne said:
@CracklePot that amp one freebie looks really nice.. Gonna start there a s the price is right haha

Got it, it's very ampy ! A solid #effects

reasOne

@audiblevideo said:
Flection mentioned by @flo26
great not AU, but great controls and lots of signal flexibility. Lots of adjustable curves and sliders to dial in up to 4 profiles which then can be cross faded between.

ReAmp
Great presets to start with on top of lots of knob shaping

+1 for apesoft stuff

Just watched a small video on this one, can't believe I've never heard of it, or had it suggested to me in the app store before.... Looks pretty cool for a kinda multi effect..... Might have to grab it at some point

wim

I thought of another super inexpensive but good one one. Sez guitar but works for lots of stuff. I think it costs like $0.99.

Fat Lady - Guitar Distortion by Aleksandar Mlazev

reasOne

@bcrichards said:
Reamp has been well worth it for me. A comparatively expensive plugin, but a surprising range of distortion and saturation sounds that is subtle but distinct. The eq sections really bring out extra character. Everything just sounds better going through Reamp, to me at least. I would recommend reading the manual to get a sense of how it can be used and the sounds the developers were going for.

Degrader is also really cool, but more extreme of a sound and a more limited palate. I would also throw out Grind from Audio Damage as another option worth looking at.

You guys are making re amp to tempting haha
I also want kleverb but can't do 40$ in app purchases rn
If you only had one....what would it be between re amp or proverb??

@richardyot said:
Re-Amp is my favourite, I even prefer it to FabFilter Saturn. What I like about it is that you have a lot of control over the tone and also you can easily achieve quite subtle effects - the harmonic selector switch (which lets you choose how many additional harmonics are added to the signal) is absolutely great.

@jonmoore said:

@Carnbot said:
apesoft limiter, Dedalus and also Tap delay has nice saturation

Absolute agreement on these picks.

In my desktop DAW I use Sly-Fi Axis on every channel as it saturates, compresses and colours beautifully whilst respecting the source material. It's coded by UBK and is based on his hardware remakes of the API 550 a/b channel EQs. If you know UBK's work you'll know the Axis is worth checking out (if you don't already own it that is!).

I really didn't think that I'd find an equivalent EQ/Saturation plugin on iOS. There's plenty of options that provide heavier distortion effects, but I had to kiss a lot of saturated frogs until I found my princesses! And those princesses I stumbled on by pure chance.

I like Alessandro's products so I purchased apeSoft Limiter blindly. Boy was I surprised by its ability to saturate in a very similar manner Axis (most of the time I'm not using it as a limiter at all, just something that enhances the source material). It's now something that I add to most channels (or sub-groups) on iOS in much the same way that I use Axis on the Desktop.

Dadelus has the same saturation flavour as apeSoft limiter (I'm sure Alessandro is using a variation of the algorithm he uses in his limiter), and it's worth adding that one of his other Amazing Noises products 'DubFilter' is equally adept at proving saturation colour when the filter is used with a light touch. I just hope Alessandro converts Dadelus to AUv3 (the others have already been converted).

Going back in time I used to use Virsyn's VTape in much the same way as Axis (and still use the tape delay from the same package), so I was pleased to see that Tap Delay used the same saturation algorithms even though it's not advertised as a saturator.

Over the years I've found that the majority of saturation plugins or EQ's the profess to saturate with 'warm', natural, non-linear distortion that respects the source material, fail at living up to their claims. And here on iOS I've found 4 plugins that don't advertise themselves as saturation plugins and they beat the majority of options that do advertise themselves as such.

Happy days...

Would you say dadelus is the best first pick outta these ones !!!! Very interesting that a delay could be so good at saturating!
I'm not good with limiters and compressors so I don't know if I should go that route...

@david_2017 said:
Waiting for REamp going in sale. This should have been my purchase in the intro sale. Cheap me

I regret missing the intro sale!!!

@wim said:
I hardly know good saturation from bad (wet tee-shirt competitions excepted), but I do know that reamp has pretty much infinite control. I feel like if I can’t dial in something good with that one, then it’s just because I don’t know how. I get results that sound good to my ears every single time. I don’t see how one can go wrong. I’m glad I got in at the intro sale price though.

Ha I like it, basically re amp can make it sound great but if not it's probably my fault lol that's how I feel about most apps 🤣

@McD said:
On the App Store "Limiter - Audio Processor" is sold by Amazing Noises so the mentions of ApeSoft struck me as wrong... then I hit the ApeSoft website and there's Limiter. Then I recalled that there's some code sharing between these 2 vendors and perhaps Limiter updates got shifted to Amazing Noises for ongoing support/marketing. (Any clues?)

Limiter is a great tool but it does squash the "color" too much for me. Lately, I'm using NYCompressor to control volume and get that endless sustain without loosing the essential sound quality of the source instruments tone.

ReAmp is a great equipment emulator and the effects are great to enhance the tone and it sits well in front of NYCompressor.

There's a "beta" Impulse Response tool coming that helps put the instrument into a real room with a quality cabinet and mic.

I complete my chain with AudioReverb.

This set up is for someone that wants to get something akin to a Dumble Amp's qualities from an IOS "channel strip" (I use AUM to capture all the small settings in one shot).

Putting an Enso Looper in the mix with a Bluetooth pedal is amazing. ReAmp isn't available for iPhone but Limiter is to add a little saturation color. So, I have a guitar processor module in my pocket that sound a lot more transparent than the ToneStack Amp sim for anyone that likes Fender style tube amp tones.

Deff interested in this nycomp cuz I do feel I kill all the good stuff in my sound when I add compression, but then again I'm no good at compression hahaha so maybe this one could help me be less destructive ?

jonmoore

@reasOne I'd say that apeSoft (Amazing Noises) Limiter is the pick as it pretty much does its job invisibly in most cases. It's not like working with a complex compressor.

And even if you want to slam it hard to create wilder tones it's still very simple to use. It has very few parameters to manage and is hard to make sound bad.

I use it mostly to bring presence to the source signal and tame errant peaks and with that in mind, the main controls that you need to worry about are the Saturation level and colour. The Saturation colour is particularly intuitive as it's like an overall tone control (great for smoothly rolling of any harshness in the highs).

If there's one guiding rule with Limiter, it's that less is more in most cases. Personally, I think it's at it's best when it's just kissing the signal rather than slamming it.

Strizbiz

What are you using to record your music? Cubasis has a saturation effect in the channel strip. It’s not bad for fattening stuff up. I wouldn’t suggest dropping $50 just for the channel strip but I think the Daw itself is worth it.

gusgranite

Great tips so far. Love Reamp. Going to try out the Limiter saturator. For EQs with a bit of colour try GoToEQ (Pultec) and DDMF 6144 (Neve)

david_2017

@reasOne I feel ya. I have Kleverb and use it often, but I think I like the AD ADverb2 (with long and dark preset) even more. Let’s wait for Easter, maybe klvgr will have a sale then. From time to time they put some plugs into sales outside of any festivities or so. I got Brusfri for a tenner. Anyways, reAmp we missed... will we be waiting patiently?

BTW, I love the GUI design of reamp. Its a new approach somehow. Flat design combined with some skeuomorphic elements?! with these colors.... I cant explain why, but I really like that.

nerVe

I wish Kazrog True-iron would come to AUv3

jonmoore

@nerVe said:
I wish Kazrog True-iron would come to AUv3

I keep on meaning to check the VST out, heard very good things.

topaz

I agree, run aum saturator gain staged thru speaker impulses ( I use MiRack ir loader ) And it sounds wonderful ;-)

@OscarSouth said:
AUM's saturation node is the best on iOS imo. I also find the distortion algorithms of Suger Bytes WOW to be far superior to any others on the plat form (lot of good competition there too).

cuscolima

I never really used AUM internal tools because I thought they were "too simple to be good". This is probably a mistake because the pedigree...and the footprint...make them more than valuable

LinearLineman

@espiegel123, thanks for the link... only took me a year plus to read it! And I thought hysteresis and bias were components of the civil rights unrest. Silly me!