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!
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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.
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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 ...
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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 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...
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!
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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.
