Saturation & Distortion

Distortion, saturation and overdrive are great for making drums sound bigger, better and more energetic in the mix. Learn how to get the most from these powerful effects on your drum parts.

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Producer ill Factor (Justin Timberlake) from Beat Academy shows us how he uses Waves Berzerk Distortion to mix his live drums with 808s in a vibey and creative way.

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How can you get deep, subby 808s, while still making them hit hard in the production and be heard in the mix? Learn how to use Waves Berzerk Distortion to create rich, wide and punchy 808s.

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Learn how to use Waves Berzerk Distortion to warp and mangle your drum loops, samples and 808s. Mixer Sean Divine takes us through some of the insane sounds you can achieve with this plugin.

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Musician Jeff Bastien explores the range of drive and crunch tones you can get when pairing the Waves MDMX Distortion Modules (Screamer, Overdrive and FUZZ) with PRS SuperModels guitar amps.

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These are the “bread and butter” tools of a mix engineer’s kit. Learn how to get your song sounding like a finished record with faders, pan knobs, EQs, compressors/limiters, saturators, delays and reverbs.

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When mixing or producing a track, you can use distortion and saturation in subtle ways to mimic other processing chains, achieving more musical results overall and without making the track sound clipped.

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Distortion is an incredible producing and mixing utility that can often bring unexpected and interesting results. Here we’ll look at some of the more bold, creative and not-so-subtle ways that distortion can be used in your productions.

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Waves’ definitive distortion and saturation toolkit includes Abbey Road Saturator for musical analog saturation, MDMX Distortion Modules for classic overdrive and fuzz effects, and Berzerk Distortion for wild, creative, deranged distortion sounds.

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Producer/engineer Warren Huart of Produce Like A Pro took Waves’ Abbey Road Saturator plugin for a test drive on vocals, drums and more – and found it to be doing marvelously well! Check out his in-depth demo.

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