Raising Jake Studios Hot Sauce
Saturator/Exciter Plugin
Hot Sauce is a non-linear gain processing plugin that adds harmonics to a signal while reducing peaks, similar to tape saturation or push-pull power amplifiers.
A second mode of operation ("Exciter") adds harmonic detail without compressing the source signal.
Hot Sauce can be used to thicken the sound of a source; to increase average volume levels without typical compressor/limiter pumping side effects or to increase brightness and excitement.
Hot Sauce is internally oversampled at all input sample rates from 44.1kHz to 192kHz for minimal aliasing side effects.
When used in the Saturator mode, Hot Sauce provides smooth waveform compression that adds odd harmonic distortion to the signal while compressing the waveform.
When used in Exciter Mode, Hot Sauce adds odd harmonic distortion to the signal without compressing the waveform producing a brighter, more "excited" sound.
Use Cases
- Before compressors or limiters to help control transients thereby requiring less compression
- After compressors and limiters to add consistent harmonic content
- To any source as a saturation/distortion effect, similar to tape compression
- As an "exciter" to add harmonic content to a signal without compressing the source signal
System Requirements
- OpenGL2 graphics required on Windows
- Metal graphics required on Mac
- MacOS 10.11 El Capitan and above
- Windows 7 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, and VST3
