Getting Louder Mixes with Ableton Saturator 

Nice :)

@@SeedtoStage Srsly man, you have a wealth of insight and experience, it shows. im learning so much

Awesome glad to be of service :)

Lol great trick but this isn't anything new

I feel you... exactly the same situation!

Yes, but be careful cause distortion changes the timbre.

Um, I have a random question about panning--when you're moving the automation around, I'm having a difficult time moving the little dot to "C" for center and struggle for seconds, sometimes a full minute, trying to get the dot from "-1R" and "-1L" to land exactly on "C". Is there an easier way to get it to "snap to C"?

@@AishawithanEye I'm two years late but in case you haven't found an answer yet, you can right-click on the automation dot you want to edit and select 'Edit Value' from the top of the menu. Key in '0' for Center or another number between -50 and 50 for other placement. I believe numbers 1 through 50 are for the Right channel and numbers -1 through -50 are for the Left channel, but a quick test should sort that out for you. Hope this helps!

you was right , just read about dynamic range . conflicting frequencies... i .e bass line and kick drum meeting at 120hz or whatever and how to sidechain a limiter compressor triggered by the kick to suppress the freq thats doubling up or needs ducking. this saturator is just set to reduce 1khz by -5 or -6 whatever it was so its reducing the meter obviously as its compressing/limiting the freq u told it to by how much you told it too (just like u would a comp/limiter) . if you was playing different sound or complicated audio youd have to set it to reduce 1khz .....120hz....1.5khz or whoknows . (multiband style lol) just use it for what its best at take a bit off add drive play around n make that sound diiiirty or whatever lol. stick to a group bus and a few comp/limiters as you got more settings and features and control if u need it.. always keep plenty of headroom on all channels and the master and ya audio files too , its important! really important .if ya messy n distirting n not knowing why because ya levels are green just try bringing all channels down to -6 to - 12 approx and ya master -6 to -12 too and turn ya amp up and hear what difference it makes(well it did for me anyways i spent a month with all channels on about -3 and wondering why it all sounded rubbish, i felt dumb when i found out it was all suffocated where it was combining and being limited coz i had it all high and left it all no room to breath) i aint no expert , i may be wrong but if your gonna follow any instructions or take any advice make sure ya read in detail "Why" and make sure they give u details about whats happening i.e dynamic range , headroom , frequencies , what the example audio they are showing you contains and what differences will occur when your audio is different from theirs , also what the device comprises of and weather it just targets the specific frequencies u assign it to or weather it will work the entire audios range . someone saying "peak" and turn a knob and watch ya level go down , then go and use it on all ya sounds and keep all ya levels down is just so vague your gonna eng up with a million different ways things react depending or what ya working on and what ranges and frequencies actually needed anything doing to them and so on and so on . All i can say is dont be harsh on anything over compression sucks the life out ya sounds-so does over limiting-so does conflicting frequencies-so does low quality files the lists endless there is no one tool thats gonna fix everything . just get to grips with the core basics everyone teaches then play around and grow in knowledge gradually and start using more n more tools and features as you get better n better or you just look at a million plugins/tools/effects/click bait videos and dont even know what the hell to start with believe , buy or try out . deadmau5 calls it option parrallasys . also dont forget to get familiar with ya spectrum analyser too it works wonders pin pointing whats causing ya problems sometimes its magical and can display a lot more than your ears or speakers can show ya (subharmonics etc....)