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Old 06-11-2019, 06:45 PM   #170
future fields
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One other thing we can do to reduce aliasing with existing plugins is to simply low pass sounds before we saturate/distort/clip them.

Say we have an acoustic guitar that we want to saturate to get that vintage slammed tape sound.

Before we add saturation, lets say our guitar has a lot going on above 10khz.

What I would do is filter above say 8-10khz, probably with a 12db filter, before the saturation plugin.

Then the saturation plugin itself will regenerate a lot of those harmonics above 10k that we just filtered out (while also saturating everything else below it, which is what we are looking for in this case) but not so much high end that it will generate as much aliasing as we would have saturated the full signal with all of that 10khz prior to filtering.
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