As the first distortion plug-in designed around this largely unexplored concept, Rift is bound to sound fresh and different.
You will find splitting waveforms like this in a handful of plug-ins, such as Fruity Waveshaper, and possibly some Eurorack modules. Bipolar processing is not a new and groundbreaking approach, but it’s exceedingly rare. The two are then mixed in different ways and modulated into a life of their own. Rift’s core identity is bipolar processing, a method for distorting and manipulating the positive (upper) and negative (lower) halves of a waveform separately. It feels “cutting-edge” like few plug-ins have in years past. Rift expertly takes the “distortion lab in your DAW” concept to 2021. Then Rift dropped and, a few minutes in, I already think iZotope can pass the torch to the Minimal guys. While FabFilter’s Saturn 2 comes close, I couldn’t really think of an immediate successor to it, and it’s been close to a decade. It has seemingly all the gritty analog and geeky digital nuances of the stuff combined into a tweaker’s paradise. Use a curvey waveshape in Trash 2 and play around with the Pre, Drive and Style controllers until you have a nice clean but powerfull sound.Released in 2012 (which makes it ancient in plug-in years), iZotope’s Trash 2 is still something of a gold standard in sophisticated distortion plug-ins. We are looking for a really slight distortion, that strengthens our sound without destroying it. And distortion is a great tool to make certain instruments like your snare or your bassline much louder. It's a very powerful distortion plugin and you could "destroy" and manipulate your sounds heavily with this plugin, but we are not here for crazy distortions, we are here for increased loudness. It supports multi-band, dual-stage distortions and advanced post-filtering for immediate sonic transformation and it has a customizable Waveshaper. Trash 2 is in my opinion, and I bet in the opinions of many producers too, one of the best distortion plugins out there. So, I want to present you my five favorite plugins to pimp up that volume for certain instruments or your whole mix and will also talk about some techniques for higher loudness. We don't want to win the loudness war or a waveform that looks like a brickwall, but a clean, powerfull sound that isn't too quiet. But productions that are just too quiet sound weak and will loose against their competitors. Loudness isn't everything, your track also needs a nice degree of dynamics and of course a clean sound without clipping. Loudness is one of the key elements for a successfull track.
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