![]() It’s clear, colorless and honest-sounding. It’s certainly not bad, it’s just a bit sterile. For all that is wonderful about working with modern digital audio, it sounds kind of…boring. It grants us nearly limitless tracks, extreme portability, practically noiseless recording, lightning-fast recall and so many other benefits that the analog realm can’t offer. ![]() ![]() While this sounds somewhat reckless or even dangerous, interesting sonic things can happen by pushing tape, tubes, transistors and circuits to (and past) their limits.ĭigital audio is unquestionably brilliant. To “saturate” analog equipment means to feed more signal into them than they were designed to handle. Saturation is one of the most versatile (and fun) tools that we as engineers have to add character and color to tracks.
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