Sausage fattener

[soup2504]

Opinions on this?

I don't care what you say, you do NOT want to be caught without this plugin. It's so... Simple! And.... So... AMAZING!

Even if your latest song sounds like shit, this plugin will literally fix that.

Two. Knobs.

TWO. KNOBS.

[the4thImpulse]

I don't care what you say, you do NOT want to be caught without this plugin. It's so... Simple! And.... So... AMAZING!

Even if your latest song sounds like shit, this plugin will literally fix that.

This is exactly why I don't like, people treat it as the tool that makes everything sound 'good'. They have to have it everywhere in their song because they think it sucks without it. I want to learn how to use proper compression and distortion (which is all it does) so I can use any compressor/ distorion unit to get the result I wan't. To me its just the cheap way out.

That said it is a great plugin and does its job very well, I do not/will not recommend it to people because I know its better to know your stuff then just a plugin that 'fixes' everything.

I won't hate on people using it though, I just question their knowlegde (not that I'm one to brag)

[Icky]

I agree with 4th here, a lot of people overuse Sausage Fattener (and other plugins like FL's Soundgoodizer) on everything. It's NOT a plugin that fixes everything, that's why you have to learn proper distortion and compression, Sausage Fattener will more than often ruin your sounds.

That being said I use Sausage Fattener from time to time on some of my reeses, but that's about it.

[SoaringFlight]

It is good on bass sounds, although on other sounds i get distortion a bit too fast. Then again, not everything needs to look like a sausage when you look at its waveform.

[soup2504]

I guess I made it sound like I would use it o. Everything. Excuse that, I typed that around 1 am.

I only use sausage fattener when appropriate, some stuff sounds better without it if you ask me.

[PrincessAddictia]

my opinion on sausage fattener, soundgoodizer and all the other "magic tools": Kill them with fire!

[Lavender_Harmony]

To me, Sausage Fattener is a compressor/adaptive limiter plugin, that does what I already know how to do. For me, it seems to do what most producers should really learn, which is how to push your mix to 0dB evenly and keep it there without peaking. It's something I've learned how to do, and am still learning since I'm only just pushing my way into EDM. However when someone asks me how I made my mix sound so smooth, punchy and effective, my reply really should be "I didn't use sausage fattener".

In your next track, try pushing yourself to not use it. Maybe bounce your mix out with SF, then take it off, use compressors, EQ, parallel compression and effective use of aux channels and try and get your mix to sound as good as or better than the SF mix.

And for a laugh;

[TheSunAndTheRainfall]

I dunno, I think I've used it like, once. To destroy this one bass sound I think I didn't even keep. I guess I just never got the hang of it or something, but I never liked what it did to everything I applied it to.

[bartekko]

I don't think that lowering the dynamic range of a song is always a good idea.
a lot of songs need to have some parts louder, and some quieter, even within the same instrument, and maximizers take that away

[Discordingly]

I've actually tried it out today... Still prefer Maximus though :p You just can't turn something bad into something good with 2 knobs imo.

[Spirit]

I only really use sausage fattener on my sub bass, and i use it like twice xD
Sine wave - Sausage fatterner, touch of valve distortion, sausage fattener, Low pass, Brick wall compressor, side chain