BB Tubes by Waves is a tube saturator I use when I want my mix to get a bit more “light” and for elements to cut through. It shines on 808s, drums, and vocals because it adds harmonics that translate better on headphones and smaller speakers. I like that you can keep it simple with the little version or go deeper with the full version’s pre/post shaping and harmonic options.
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“what's going on guys welcome to Sonic sounds and today we are going to talk about a tube saturator by waves that's going to give your tracks more light and the plug-in name is BB tubes now they have two versions they have the little tube and then they have the main plug-in as well now both of these plugins allow you to add saturation to all your tracks and what I'm going to do is I'm going to play a track with and without the plug-in and you can see the difference and then we'll jump into the settings that I used in this plugin I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go this way I can push it that way let's go as you can hear from the plugin it adds some nice saturation to pretty much any one of your sounds as you can see there's a version with just one knob big knob right here and then you have the full version right here at least for the little version you have the sensitivity control and then you have the drive and then you have the trim for the output whereas for the full version you have this beauty which adds uh saturation harmonic Distortion you have the Beast that adds the harmonics at the odd and this adds it at the even so this is more extreme of a result you have two different type of saturation that you can add you also have a Transformer that you can turn on and off how sensitive you want it to be you also have control of how much bass you want it to be affected and then you have the pre and the post high frequency control right here and then again you have the mix right here so again let's just go to my master bus and we're gonna just quickly bypass back and forth and see what this sounds I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go so you can see that there's a bit of saturation that's really making pretty much every element of the mix cut through where I really like this is the 808 right here so this is the 808 let me bypass the plugin and show you what it sounded like before the plugin was engaged it's a nice girthy 808 but a lot of people are listening to music on their headphones so look what it is doing it is adding Distortion in harmonics I'm keeping it 100 wet so you can pretty much ensure that this is going to cut through any kind of speaker that they hear it on here are the drums so let's play it without enabled you can really hear it in the claps the snares and the hi-hats again let's play it again what I'm going to do is add some harmonics and see if you can tell the difference [Music] let me take it off so you can really tell the difference foreign [Music] it's pretty awesome I hope you're listening to this on good speakers or headphones so to be really able to be tell the difference what I really like about this is what it's doing to the vocals so let's go ahead and just Loop this vocal let me take off the plugin right here this is the vocal I just used a preset and modified it so let's see what this sounds like I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go all right sounds pretty good but let's add this and see what it's doing I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go all right let's play this in the context of the mix push it this way I could push it that way let's go I could push it this way I could push it that way let's go that was BB troops by waves let me know what you think about the plug-in I know there are a bunch of other saturation plugins do you think it sounds similar to some of those or a little different I think it's quite unique because it has few knobs it's a dual layer so that means there's some stuff you can do before the saturation and after especially for the main plug-in not the little version so it's something that's unique that's not available in any other plugin at least that I know of also if you're interested in checking out there's a link in the description below go and check that out it does help the channel out also if you're looking for free samples for reggaeton I do have some on my website as well and there is a end of the year sale going on on the ultimate reggaeton kit which includes all the other reggaeton kits as well as the reggaeton template for Logic Pro X keep making some dope music I'll see you the next one”