23 Results for "tape saturation"

Plugins You Actually Need For Mixing

We look at some of the key plugins you actually need for mixing music beyond the collection of stock plugins that comes with your DAW of choice.

Weird Recording Tools Producers Secretly Love

We investigate a range of weird recording tools, including unorthodox devices that have found niche purposes or become sources of inspiration in studio.

Creative Mix Tools For Breaking The Rules

We explore creative mix tools that give you the freedom to break out of the traditional mold when it comes to signal processing and sound shaping.

The Art of Distortion: Harmonics, Saturation, and Clipping

We explore the art of distortion, delving into ways of using harmonics, saturation, and clipping to add colour, texture, and definition to your mix.

Tim Exile The Tool Without A Name: A One-click Mixing and Mastering Solution

Mix and master your tracks quickly and easily with Tim Exile The Tool Without A Name, an intuitive new AI-free software app and plugin.

Arturia Mix DRUMS: Shape Your Drums to Perfection

The new Arturia Mix DRUMS plugin is a specialized processor for sculpting drum sounds in your DAW with saturation, reverb, and distortion.

Arturia Tape J37: A Recording Legend for Your DAW

The Arturia Tape J37 brings the magic of the famous Studer tape machine into your DAW, with a range of controls to craft your sound.

Studio Deals: Get up to 35% off these 5 offers

In this week's batch of Studio Deals, you'll find a range of offers from top brands like RME, SSL, Neumann, AKG, and Rupert Neve Designs.

The Strymon Deco Plugin brings character to your DAW

With the Strymon Deco Plugin, you have access to all the tasty tonal controls of the Deco pedal within the flexible DAW environment.

Cassette Tape Comeback as sales boom: Why YOU should record to tape!

We're witnessing a cassette tape comeback! The compact cassette experiences its biggest sales in 20 years. Here's why you should rediscover tape...

REVIEW: WARM Audio WA-MPX – Vintage tube warmth at a bargain price?

We review the WARM Audio WA-MPX; can a tube pre at this price point really deliver warm, girthy, vintage tube tones? We took one for a test drive...

Introducing the Warm Audio WA-MPX and WA-2MPX tube preamps

We check out the new Warm Audio WA-MPX and WA-2MPX vintage-style tube preamps, with plenty of flexibility to add character to your sound.

Barons Of Boom Bap: How to sound like A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest combined conscious lyricism with Jazz-influenced beats to create some of Hip-Hop's classic albums. We find out how!

Caelum Audio Tape Pro – creative FX processor and tape toybox

Tape Pro is something of a tape-based multi-fx processor with a very interesting feature set and signal flow. It's also on introductory sale that sees 20% taken off the regular GBP 40 price!

MIA 413 Tape Saturator: A new analog saturation and distortion toolkit

With 413 Tape Saturator, audio developer Mia Laboratories presents an appealing new plug-in for warming up and compressing your mix buses and audio/instrument tracks.

Superbooth 2020: The Dust Collector analog FX box is out for pre-order

At long last, the Dust Collector analog multi FX unit from Superbooth 2019 is a reality and up for pre-order at EUR 480 apiece.

Best Free Tape Simulation Plug-ins: Our Top 9 freeware saturation effects

Need some analogue warmth on your tracks but don't have money to spend? Thankfully, there are some great free plug-ins out there to help you get some of good ol' tape mojo going on in your DAW!

Baby Audio Super VHS recreates the lo-fi glory of the VHS era

Baby Audio has released Super VHS, a tape simulation plug-in for the classic VHS sound of the 80s. With six individual effects, Super VHS lets you dial in various states of tape degradation.

Neural DSP Archetype Nolly: A new Djent virtual amp and effects plugin

Adam "Nolly" Getgood is one of the pioneers of Djent and this new software package captures his own amp collection and gives you all you need to make tight, clean modern metal guitar tones in one software ...

ToneBoosters updates its affordable ReelBus tape machine plug-in to v4

ReelBus 4 has improved tape simulation algorithms and new creative effects, such as Wear, which simulates tape damage to different degrees. New to version 4 are also a tape flanging effect with LFO.

HoRNet Tape plug-in: four tape machines in one for that vintage vibe

HoRNet thinks your digital recordings sorely lack the distinct hiss, flutter, and warm musical saturation of magnetic tape. Tape is another but intriguing cure for this problem...

Free plug-ins this week: a delay, synthesizer, and three more useful tools!

Ready for the best free plug-ins this week? There's a delay, a compressor, a Korg-style synth, a console emulation and a tape saturation effect - phew!

Overloud’s Tapedesk: A new standard for analogue sound in DAW mixing workflows?

Tapedesk is Overloud's attempt at simulating the sound of an all-analogue mixing workflow - a mixing console hooked up to a tape machine - in one plug-in, an approach we've never seen before.