![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, all of these settings affect frequency response and cause the signal to cut out. In the next section, we can emulate some of the degradations that tape can cause. The tone window lets us emphasize or boost frequencies prior to compression and saturation - making these frequencies more compressed or distorted. Use NR8 for the highest quality emulation.Ĭhanging the hysteresis mode changes the quality of the emulation. ![]() Hysteresis is at the bottom of the plugin and changes the overall timbre and quality of the effect. Tape bias, saturation, and drive are in the second window - use these to control the dynamics of your signal, and to add some harmonic distortion. The filter section affects the internal side chain of the plugin, so you can alter what frequencies are and aren’t affected. In the left-hand window, is the input gain, mix, and output gain. The Chow Tape Model is a lot more complex than our previous example. Pay particular attention to how the flutter and wow functions differ sonically, as well as how the IR shifts the frequency response.įor more plugins like these two, check out this video :Ĭhow Tape Model is a complex and well designed tape emulation plugin. Let’s listen to both of the plugins back to back. Lastly, oversampling has been added to reduce aliasing distortion and to create more accurate quantization. It cuts out a little more of the high end and some of the high-mid frequencies. The IR switch enables an impulse response section that changes the timbre of the overall signal by adding a subtle EQ curve. The newer version modulates it's wow and flutter. The same can be said about the flutter function which now introduces mild modulation to the harmonics it creates. In other words, the modulation speeds up and slows down, making it sound a little more interesting than the previous version. Wow still modulates the frequency of the signal however, this modulation is now variable. The saturation seems more or less the same, as does the low-pass filter, but the noise, wow and flutter functionals have made noticeable improvements.įirst, the noise used is now real sampled noise from a cassette deck, which adds a little bit of realism to the plugin. Tape Cassette 2 is very similar but with some notable improvements. Notice the harmonic distortion that this plugin creates. Wow modulates the frequency of the fundamental and any generate harmonics, whereas flutter generates a harmonic, a sub-harmonic, and causes other mild shifts to the frequency response. Noise is the level of tape noise introduced into the signal. This doesn’t create a resonance filter or any other changes to the audio. The lowpass filter introduces what looks like a 12dB per octave cut-off. The original cassette plugin has a simpler design, and less functionality. The original tape cassette plugin has a saturation dial, which introduces both even and odd ordered harmonics. Tape Cassette 2 emulates the timbre and distortion of a cassette deck.Ĭaelum Audio has come out with 2 iterations of their tape cassette plugin - both of which offer unique saturation and emulated tape artifacts. Tape Cassette & Tape Cassette 2 by Caelum Audio We’ll master it for you and send you a free sample to review. If you have any questions about these plugins, or if you know of some more free tape emulation plugins, let us know in the comment section of the video embedded above.Īlso, if you’re an artist or an engineer, and you have a mix that you’d like to hear mastered with all analog equipment, send it to us here: We’ll dive into the functionality of each one of these plugins, discuss how they work and when to use them, and listen to them on a mix. The ones we’re showing here are some of the only ones we could find, but, they’re still fantastic and innovative in their own right. They might be harder to code or get a decent sample or IR of - regardless, we wanted to find a few that you can use for your mixes and masters. Tape Cassette & Tape Cassette 2 by Caelum Audioįree tape machine plugins are hard to come by.
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