Krunch Saturator
Krunch Saturator is a combination low-pass filter and saturation plug-in based on the 1€ Filter.
Some time ago I came across the 1 Euro Filter, an adaptive filter designed to balance jitter and lag in noisy input for interactive systems. I was curious what it would sound like when applied to audio. Pretty good actually. The filter adds harmonics in an interesting way. So I turned it into a free plug-in named Krunch.
Krunch combines low-pass filtering with saturation. It has the following controls:
- KRUNCH: The higher this is dialed up, the more the sound will be filtered. But even at low values it will already add crunch.
- MIX: The effect works best when some dry signal is mixed in. For example, set KRUNCH to 75% and MIX to 50% to make kicks stand out more.
- OUT: Since this is a filter, the output signal may end up being a tad quieter. Compensate the drop in loudness with this slider.
- OVS: Enable oversampling. Gives a cleaner result because fewer aliases, but aliases have a charm of their own so you may want to leave this disabled.
- BYP: Bypass the plug-in for A/B testing.
