In this free video tutorial brought to you in with the support of Plugin Alliance, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers demonstrates a variety of different results that can be achieved saturating a snare using two of his favourite plugin Alliance saturation plug-ins.

HG-2 Black Box

This plug-in is smooth and flattering to source material passing through it. Its unusual topology, which involves two different valve stages in series and a third saturation stage in parallel is flexible and surprisingly powerful.

Elysia Karakter

This plug-in is available in two versions, mix and master. In this example the mix version is used and in contrast with the smooth results achieved with the HG-2, the Karakter is rather more spiky with these settings. 

Watch the video tutorial to see and hear this in practice.