#Fabfilter saturn vs izotope trash free#
You can hack your own mid/side setup using Voxengo’s free MSED mid/side encoder and any regular distortion plugin, or turn to Vertigo’s VSM-3 for a ready-rolled option. There are many ways to use this effect creatively: saturate the mid channel of a stereo guitar bus to give it more centered weight, or distort the sides of a synth pad to add stereo character without cluttering the middle of the mix. Trash 2 is a powerful multieffect that you can use as a plain old compressor, gate, convolution reverb (max 12 seconds IIRC), filter, you don't even need to use the distortion stages. Saturn is in general gentler and has a smudge algorithm you can get nowhere else. It can be subtle, but we love its nasty side - which can always be reined in with the wet/dry mix. Decapitator is analog through and through, you get 5 models. Just as you’d use mid/side EQ to independently sculpt the mid (mono) and side (stereo) frequencies of a stereo signal, you can also use distortion to drive mono or stereo signals separately. Trash 2 is an all-in-one multiband distortion toolkit, housing tons of drive algorithms, pre/post filters, custom waveshaping, visualisation and plenty more besides. I have Trash 2 and Ohmicide on my wish list of distortion plugins but - which do people prefer for distortion plugins maybe best is to have both but if I can only buy 1 right now which. This works well for distorting vocal recordings without emphasising sibilance, or removing low-mid ‘mush’ when sounds are pushed harder. There is a sale on for izotrope Trash 2 almost everywhere for 118 or 119 depending on where you shop. Or regulate distortion by EQing out too-prominent resonant frequencies pre-drive. For example, automating a resonant EQ or filter boost into distortion will create modulated ‘rasps’ that can add a unique feel to aggressive synth basslines, particularly if you sweep the boost’s centre frequency around. By chaining EQ and distortion together in series, you can radically alter the character of the effect.