Fun fact: this was used for the vocal distortion on black keys >el camino

"The Thump toggle switch will add a few dB of low frequency boost right at the Low Cut frequency. This is similar to the ‘head bump’ of analog tape recorders, and is one of the reasons that recording to analog tape can sound so fat. Keep in mind that switching on Thump will increase the amount of low frequencies that hit the saturation circuit. This can add some flabbiness to the sound, or sound incredible, depending on the setting of the Low Cut and the characteristics of the audio that you are working with".

i'm addicted to these damn plugin breakdowns great job!

The tilt eq alone is soooooo cool. This thing is so great

Really good review that doesn't speed through the process. You've earned a new subscriber.

stumbled across your channel today for the first time and I have to say I'm impressed with your methodical, in-depth review. Thank you!

Gotta ❤ the Decapitator, it sounds so good! Also, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, sir!

Really dig your videos, Jeff. Been a fan of the Decapitator for a few years now, but always nice to see a new, or different perspective on things, there's always some positive takeaways regardless of how familiar we are with a product. Every time the drum loop plays in your example I have Jim Kerr's voice in my head ready to belt out a "he - he - he - heeeeey!" :)

"From a UX Experience".. as a designer, I respect how you are bringing design into your explanations. :)

One of my most used plugins, mainly because I can get the effect I want really quickly on all sorts of things. I mostly use it really subtly but it does sound great dialled up

I love these videos, Goes deep and very well demonstrated in real use. Thanks! own the decapitator (as part of the ST bundle), and actually didn't get to use it a lot, but i think i gonna put it to more use soon.

Just found your channel. Thanks for your detailed explanation, presented in such a calm manner. Excellent 👍

One of my favorite plug ins. Use this on all types of sources from drums, bass, guitars, to vocals.

Excellent content, good work

Bought this plugin not too long ago. Lot of fun to play with it. Great review btw!

Great tutorial mate. I am just about to buy it and I already know everything about this Plugin now. Thanks a lot.

Very detailed as always. Thank You.

Great review, thanks.

Very cool. EXACTLY what I was looking for, on drums. Not sure how I ended up on this video, but happy I found.

very well made video and making me at least understand allready good plugin better. thanks for that!

I finally picked this up when SoundToys EffectRack went on sale (Black Friday). Decapitator came with it. Now I get to see what all the fuss is about. This demo was just what I needed to get someone's perspective and get to know the capabilities. I have a tonne of purpose built saturation tools at my disposal but they are each unique so it's nice to be able to know the capabilities of them all and choose the right one for the job.

Great video. Thank you.

Great Tutorial, thanks so much👍

I have the Soundtoys suite, but I never understood what the deal with Decapitator was. Thanks for the deep dive, really made me open my eyes about the different styles! Will definitely be trying this in my own tracks :)

Thanks great review 🤘

Thank a lot man

I love your way of breaking down plugins, I wish you could do more!

Love it. So clean

Very nice DEMO!! Thank you!!

Have to say it's one plugin where the presets really do help - I use drumfattener on individual drum tracks, things like 'high crispy' for shakers/percussion - it's great on everything, probably my single most-used vst!

Really is a good plugin. I've started using it as a way to roughly EQ/mildy distort at the start of the insert - get a decent EQ balance/vibe at the start of the mix and work from there to finetune.

the GOAT, the GO-TO

I believe the thump is a resonance boost for the Hi pass filter. So may be more noticeable if you turn the filter up from 20Hz

Awesome tutorial 🙏

I’ve used this bad boy on all my songs... ‘tis a gem. Punish mode is always a good time! 👌🏼

What I find so difficult when judging distortion plugins is that I don’t want to be influenced by the GUI or knowing that it’s "based on blah blah blah". The sound is (almost) all that counts. And with distortion, there’s so much mojo mumbo jumbo going around. I almost forget to trust my ears.

Thanks a lot

Thanks for the nice walkthrough! Could the Thump switch perhaps be a resonance boost that follows the Low Cut frequency?

Good demo

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What is the "Insight"..is it a plugin, available for any DAW or inherit to Logic? Thanks for the video.

Hey, amazing and insightful tutorial. BTW the thump switch works much better when you're low cutting the signal in the 60-70 Hz range. It's basically a 3-4 db boost after the low cut frequency to get some punch.

I use it very lightly on almost everything. Just adds a little punch. I’ve never felt the need to crank it or use Punish.

Amazing Videos! This series are so cool! Thank you! Whats your SM7B signal chain?

Can’t believe I’m just finding you... 👍🏼👍🏼

Table of contents: Intro - 00:00 - 00:51 UI Deep Dive - 00:51-15:00 ‘A’ Algorithm - 15:01 ‘E’ Algorithm - 16:42 ’N” Algorithm - 22:43 ’T’ Algorithm - 24:16 Thump switch - 27:20 Outro - 32:19

I have it, but knew nothing about it, until now, thank you. I’ve questioned my results with it on a full kit. Is this how you would use it ? Not just on the snare ?

Doesn't the thump switch just add a resonant bump to the low-cut filter? You probably won't hear any effect if the low-cut filter is set to 20Hz.

Can also use Izotope trash or Fabfilter Saturn

Did someone tried the studio one reflight saturation plug in????

_"The Thump toggle switch will add a few dB of low frequency boost right at the Low Cut frequency."_ It is in the manual, I find it odd that you didn't find it. Either way thanks for the sound demo.

Where could you use this in a dance tune?

13:06 FIRE

by the way skeuomorphic means a Graphical Interface that resembles its real life counterpart. For anyone who might not know what that word means.

24:24 what is a tube ?

Boom buh-KA-BOOM ... KA!

nobody using it after 5-6 bars the sound going so in red ... and totally smashing it

why don't you turn down the output? audio is distorted 31:03

Reminds me a lot to Steinberg's Magneto Plugin.

It seems like a cool plugin...but between Tone City’s Goliath and Output’s Thermal, this would be rendered redundant in my workflow as it doesn’t do anything I couldn’t do in either of those that I already have.

Yeah, I'm not paying $200 for decapitator

As if adding 5 decaps on punish would be a bad thing? :P

Should i get this one or devil-loc deluxe?

Everyone also seem to use decapitator on only drums.

it sounds smooth, but I dont hear any difference with the thumb toggle

Maybe Im the only one, but I dont really dig the plugin. Its certainly not the worst saturation, but for my taste there are better saturators (at least for electronic music). My secret tip would be Valves by AudioThing, really amazing that one. Another one i use often is Loc Ness by Tone Empire, really amazing on drums.

Cool demonstration but it would be even better if you actually read the manual. For instance, it says in the manual that the thumb switch adds a few db at the lowcut knob frequency, also the high cut knob acts after the saturation stage while the low cut and tone knobs act before it.

It's not exactly obvious that the LOW CUT is a pre-effect filter.

I only use Decapitator for mastering were it does some cool spicy sound togheter with a multiband comp. Using it as a standard saturation plugin on separated tracks, does not work for me. I prefer stock ableton saturation/overdrive options.

PSP Vintage Warmer 2 was a really popular saturator back in the day

This thing weirds me out. It`s not really that accurate when compared to current gen saturation plugins.... but somehow there is something that is still very usable in some of the models..

My goto snare bottom processor allllll day long

"Spectra"? Surely it's "spectrum." Singular. I'm digging the vid so far though.

Great insight....got to say though, open-backed cans aren't a good idea around mics ;)

50 euros on thomann until TOMORROW!!

you missed the screws, those can be tightened. no really, and the wood finish. you have "pine" installed, you want oak and at least qsizer's mahogany mod. anyway, cool content. no ones ever reviewed decapitator before...gonna do waves next or uad?

It would have been nice to hear more instruments. Drums are one of the easiest instruments to get right in the mix. I already have a nice master buss set of plugins I use all of the time. I also have one of the biggest sounds on the planet already. You just saved me money. Thank you.

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Cool video. I'm sure I have heard this vst used on loads of music so I'm sure it sounds good but I cant figure it out. I don't think it sounds like analogue distortion or clipping. I'm not an analogue purist but circuitry doesn't sound like this when it distorts. Pre amps are much smoother and less violent sounding when pushed. This vst sounds more like a rough distortion pedal. Like it's burning the signal rather than squishing it and gently adding harmonics.

Okay, but what's a decibell?

Just so you know, it looks like you accidentally added a couple Elden Ring videos to your "Why is everyone in love with this thing?" playlist. (Unless you did it on purpose, of course.)

Its quite expensive

Personally I prefer the more subtle distortion you get when you set the drive so the needle is just barely hitting the red. I think that your demo doesn't do the plugin justice as you basically redline it the whole time. Don't get me wrong, the sound toys plugins do like to be pushed, but this is a bit much.

Waves Abbey road saturation is better... the best saturation on the market... CPU intensive though but worth it.

Let me guess: your big inspiration is Greg Scott. Because you are speaking like him and you mic'ed everything up like his podcast.

In all honesty, this plug-in is so overhyped. If you’ve never heard real analog distortion artifacts before it’s probably a very exciting plug-in, but in truth this thing sounds super digital and harsh to my ears. The high frequency break-up lacks the sharpness and the distinctive sizzle you get from overdriving analog units, and on more subtle settings it just makes things sound unnecessarily forward. I’m sure there are ways to get it to sing, there always are, but for my money the three best ITB distortion/saturation tones are the Positive Grid Tube Compressor, overdriving the input on the UAD Helios Channelstrip, and the UAD Culture Vulture emulation. Honorable mention to the Slate Digital tube saturation plug-ins, if you stack and gain stage them properly in conjunction with the vintage channel emulations they start sounding pretty incredible.

My guy you go too crazy with that Drive dial. Even at 50% mix that too much IMO

Benny from ABBA has let himself go!

Any compressor does the same thing

Am I the only one who thinks the distortion on this thing sounds digital and fake? I want to like this thing. I really do. I love Echo Boy, but I never believe this tool in a mix.

too many words

No disrespect, but the Harshness this plugin produced on the source, is not very appealing. 😬

where's guitar? Good for guitar but all I can hear is drums....

Thumbs down for blowing my eardrums 🤦‍♂️

Sounds nothing like analog saturation. The original track sounds the best. But hey it’s a wizmo with some interesting stuff.

Not gonna lie, I’m not a huge fan of this plug in. Kind of overhyped.

STOP TALKING PLEASE.

Decapitator has never really done it for me. I’ll take Plugin Alliance HG-2ms or the Vertigo VSM3 ANY DAY over the Decapitator! And honestly after Soundtoys put out their useless opinion last fall on the current political state... I lost ALL interest in them. What have they brought to the table recently? ....stale.

Sooooo much talking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too much talking