one of the best free saturation plugins has gotten even better burier by kit plugins has been
updated to version 2 it's still a free plugin, still an excellent saturation plugin and in this
video we're going to see what's being updated and we'll give it a listen on to a few different
tracks like drums vocals bass and some more i'm Zane welcome to Audio Tech TV i've included a link
down in the description to burier by kit plugin so you can grab it for yourself it's available
as vst3, AU, and AAX formats on mac or windows now let's jump in and check out barrier so the
first very noticeable difference is with the user interface you can change the colors by clicking
this gui button and there's three different color variations you can choose from i actually like
this red one with the black knobs on it so i'll stick with that one for the rest of this video
and another thing you can do is resize the user interface so you can resize it however you like
and i know changing the color or the size of a plugin may not be that big of a deal but i do
find it inspiring when a plugin looks pretty cool it inspires me to create something with it
so there is that now let's look at what burier is designed to do which is saturation
and kit plugin says to add this to drums bass synths vocals so we'll try that out and i'm
also going to try it out on guitars because i like adding saturation to my electric guitars
and i'll probably try it out on the master track as well i have it loaded up onto my drum track
right now and i'm just going to disable it so you can hear what the drums sound like without it on
so a nice clean drum sound now let's start adding some of this saturation
i actually like that right there it gives a nice dirty sound to those drums and
for a rocking song that would be an excellent drum sound right there
when you put it on there it thickens those drums up and makes them sound really good now let's just
have a look at some of these controls here you have the big saturation knob in the center and
that controls the amount of saturation and you can see it's linked to the output knob so the more i
increase the more the output knob decreases so it makes up for the increased volume that would
happen from adding the saturation and of course you can unlink it and just control one of these
if you wanted so you don't have to have it linked and then you also have this mix knob so you can
dial in how much of this effect you want on there and you also have low cut and high cut filters
it's a pretty straightforward design there's a bypass up here and of course that gui button
and that's about it for the controls if you click on the little question mark here it takes you to
the user manual if you need to use that so we've heard it on drums now let's add it to a bass track
and i'll just bypass this so we can hear the bassline without it
so the base is fairly clean without it now let's add some barrier to it
i don't mind that right there but i just want to
try cranking it up to 11 just to hear what that sounds like
that's pretty interesting it's actually pretty musical when it's cranked to 11 there
if you're doing something lo-fi or maybe an industrial sound or just something where you
want it really saturated this is going to do that for you so now let's check it out on a vocal track
okay so here is our vocals without barrier on it way all messed up and you're out of touch
the things around you don't matter much people coming and going all right that's our vocal track
now let's add some Burier and crank this up way all messed up and you're out of touch
the things around you don't matter much people coming and going every day and you wonder why
you have no place to stay why you messed up and you're out of touch trying to get back to life
seems too much you keep drinking and drinking your life away telling yourself it's all society
that's actually really nice on there if you adjust the mix and you're not getting the full
saturation on your entire vocal this is what it would sound like if you're doing that well messed
up and you're out of touch the things around you don't matter much people coming and going could be
useful in some situations but i like to just mix it in there way all messed up and you're out of
touch the things around you don't matter much people coming and going every day and you wonder
yeah you still get some of the clarity of the original vocal but you also get
that nice saturation on there this is an excellent plug-in very useful all around
so now another place i want to try it is on my master track just to see what it sounds like to
add a little saturation on there all right so bypassed this is what we're working with
there's our dry sound now let's add barrier and see what we come up
you have no with to stay while you're messed up and you're out of touch trying to get back to life
seems too much you keep drinking and drinking your life away telling yourself it's all society
it's not bad on there you have to use it in small amounts but it's nice to add a little
saturation onto your master track just to kind of add some old-school saturation kind of like
you would get from using a tape machine now one last place that i want to try
this out is on my guitars i really like adding saturation to my electric guitars
so i'm going to add it there all right so here is the electric guitars without the saturation
all right they're fairly distorted as is
and now let's add the saturation to give it some more crunch
i really like the crunchiness that this brings to electric guitars now check out even more
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you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon