Waves Abbey Road Saturator

Na ja , ich stehe sehr auf die Emulation von altem Vintage Gear, aber der Abbey Road Saturator is meiner Ansicht nach ein Plugin das man sich schenken kann. Die Oberfläche hat zwar ein wunderbares Retrodesign , aber ich habe nach ewigem Geschraube, Studium des Manuals, YouTtube Tutorials etc. keine Situation gefunden in der ein Signal nach dem Einsatz des Plugins besser geklungen hat. Nach Betätigung des Bypass Schalters ist das Originalsignal meist besser ohne das Plugin bedient. Für leichte Verzerrungen ist es sicher ok. Möglicherweise gibt es Anwendungen des Plugins die ich noch nicht herausgefunden habe, aber wenigstens schauts cool aus...!

I usually don't use any 'flashy' plugins named after famous studio/producers etc, but THIS one is absolutely fantastic! Game changer for me - it's (mostly) easy to use, sounds great, adds very pleasant colour to your music. Can be use on master bus as well as on most of the individual tracks. Especially works great with vocals and drums.
It can 'magicly' turn a dull sounding mix into really modern (yeah, i remember that it emulates really old analog gear :)), colorfull, dynamic and brigth sounding track. Can't imagine working without it now :) Highly recommend it!
My only main complaint is that there is no good explanation how compander works. It sounds good, and it's easy to use, but "crossover points" work counterintuitively - applying more low-pass filter somewhow makes it sound brighter (don't understand the controls on this module)!?! Short description in the manual doesn't really say anything, so it could be usefull to know what it accually does, and not guess what to do :/ This plugin also requires 'Waves cenral' software and online activation. While using it in your DAW, there is a 'Waves' process running in the background all the time :/