Sound Tips

Your Saturator Is Playing Notes That Aren't in the Song

That grainy, faintly out-of-tune top end after you push a saturator isn`t your imagination. It`s aliasing: harmonics folding back into your mix as tones that don`t belong to the note. Here`s where they land, how to spot them, and how oversampling clears them out.

- November 11th, 2026