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Modulate Your Bass With Fabfilter Saturn

9 min

Luca Pretolesi shares his expert insights into modulating a baseline using FabFilter’s Saturn to scope and enrich your mix! Finding that perfect balance between producing and mixing is key when approaching this with a mixing mindset, it’s all about identifying the sweet spot where production creativity meets technical finesse.

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Modulate your Bass with Fabfilter Saturn
Luca Pretolesi

Modulate Your Bass With Fabfilter Saturn

9 min

Luca Pretolesi shares his expert insights into modulating a baseline using FabFilter’s Saturn to scope and enrich your mix! Finding that perfect balance between producing and mixing is key when approaching this with a mixing mindset, it’s all about identifying the sweet spot where production creativity meets technical finesse.

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Luca Pretolesi

Luca Pretolesi

Luca Pretolesi is a world-renowned mixing and mastering engineer with a wealth of professional experience and a reputation as one of the best in the industry. With multiple Grammy nominations and wins, as well as Platinum, Diamond, Billboard, and Golden Melody awards, he has mixed and mastered some of the most streamed songs of all time. He is also the founder and creator of Studio DMI, a state-of-the-art facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. Luca has worked with top artists such as Drake, Skrillex, Diplo, Chiquis, Major Lazer, Alan Walker, Dillon Francis, David Guetta, J Balvin, and many more. Luca’s Grammy nominations include Chiquis “Abeja Reina” for Best Regional Mexican Music Album, Diplo “Diplo” for Best Dance/Electronic Album, Diplo & Miguel “Don’t Forget My Love” for Best Dance/Electronic Single, J Balvin & Willy William’s “Mi Gente” for Record of the Year, Steve Aoki’s “Wonderland” for Best Dance Album, Snoop Lion’s “Reincarnation” for Best Reggae Album.

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