Waves Abbey Road Saturator - Valve and Solid-State Console Saturation Plugin

Waves Abbey Road Saturator - Valve and Solid-State Console Saturation Plugin

Waves Abbey Road Saturator brings the colour and power of Abbey Road's saturation signal chain to your mixes. It ranges from light saturation that gives vocals and synths an edge, through heavier drive that adds punch to bass and drums, to extreme distortion.

Choose the valve sound of the REDD console or the round, solid-state tone of the TG12345, shape it with pre- and post-saturation EQ, then excite it through the rare EMI TG12321 compander. A phase control alters the character of the distortion, mid/side processing and a mix control add precision, and artist presets come from Joe Barresi, Dave Pensado and Lu Diaz.

• Valve and solid-state console saturation characters
• Rare EMI TG12321 compander
• Pre- and post-saturation EQ
• Phase control to alter the distortion sound
• Mid/side processing and wet/dry mix
• Designed and calibrated with Abbey Road Studios

Supplied as a digital download with a perpetual licence. After purchase you receive a Waves serial number to register to your Waves account; the plugins are then installed and activated with the free Waves Central application, either to your computer or to an exFAT-formatted USB flash drive, one device at a time. A Waves account and an internet connection are needed to activate; no hardware dongle is required. Formats: AAX Native, AudioSuite, AU and VST3 (64-bit) on macOS Sonoma 14 or later, and AAX Native, AudioSuite and VST3 (64-bit) on Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11. Intel and Apple silicon Macs and x64 Intel or AMD PCs are supported; 16 GB RAM is recommended.