

Satin is amazing, but its saturation capabilities are of course less versatile than those of the other two. Some of the distortion modes I dislike on most material I've tried them on. I love Decapitator, too, although I find it a bit overrated. Multiband for distortion is more useful than multiband for compression, yet there are so many multiband compressors and only one multiband distortion plugin. I really wonder why nobody else has thought of this before. Multiband distortion is a godsend because it often makes a lot of sense to distort only the mids and highs, but not the low end. It sounds amazing and offers way more functionality than Decapitator. I find Saturn the best saturation plugin around. (But whatever you need to tell yourself to justify buying both ) NelsonOf course there's overlap dude, they are both saturation plug-ins.

What I'm trying to avoid is having multiple plugins which do the same thing. I was look at buying one or the other, but if there really isn't any overlap, then I suppose I can buy both. : Would you consider there to be any overlap between Saturn and Decapitator? It even has a "service" panel where you can "mod" the machine. It's also a gorgeous delay and flange unit and it also has an extensive compander emulation section that makes it really damn useful for those with actual reel-to-reel (or cassette) tape machines. I don't really see it just as a saturator though, it's much more than that. Satin is just a fantastic emulation of a tape machine and easily my fave of its kind. I never really fell in love with Saturn (I prefer Izotope Trash 2 and Ohmicide) but it's the only multi-band saturation plug in the trio so if that's what you're after go for it!ĭecapitator is a classic saturation plug-in.
