izotope trash 2 multiband waveshaping distortion plug-in

This is a ridiculously good plugin, by far my most used. The distortion module in this plugin is super nice sounding and effective. There are a few plugins I use all the time in every project so I’ll give a rundown of them and how I use them. Saturating things can bring them to life and add fatness, richness, size and sparkle to elements which otherwise sounded dead and lifeless.

The nature of soft instruments too means that there it takes a lot of processing to make a sound interesting and pleasing to the ear because harsh, simple and one-dimensional sounds (like the ones that come straight out of sample packs and synths) don’t usually sound that great. I think this is really important as DAWs are, inherently “cold” and “empty” places to make music in if you don’t make something, it’s not there and everything you want in your music has to be added there by you. Doing this to your sounds increases perceived loudness, compresses and adds new material (harmonics, frequencies) to current sounds. There are a multitude of ways you can distort saturate things. I’ve decided to write some stuff on this topic because I spend half my life distorting, saturating and mangling sounds and it’s a pretty integral thing in the world of making big, fat, and (sometimes) disgusting sounds.

Izotope trash 2 multiband waveshaping distortion plug-in