I personally love IronOxide, ToTape, and HardVacuum (think of it as "ToTube"). These handle 95% of my saturation needs nowadays. I've gotten some delightfully dirty drums, smashing the snare with IronOxide and putting some ToTape on the overheads. HermePass is a great little highpass filter too, elegant in its simplicity.
I haven't messed with the snake oil stuff like the various consoles or dithers, but i'm certainly much more of a musician and not so much an audio engineer. Regarding the consoles, I can't hear even the slightest difference in the demo videos or in my own brief experimentation. I'm probably not the intended audience for those.
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