Anyone else find it ironic that back in the days of analog, everyone was trying to get rid of noise and distortion to accurately reproduce sound without coloring it, and now it's big business to try to color/distort the sound?
I actually don't find it ironic at all. there was a preference for the character and saturation analog tools provided back in their heyday, as well as the desire to have control over those qualities. now we have the luxury of having that control and ability to apply it whenever and to the extent that we want. it's a great time to be making music!
I bought this plugin about a month ago and I have used it on every single one of my productions since I got it. When I have a digital synth that’s way too much in the high register, I drop it on and leave it at its default and it puts the perfect amount of low pass on it to make it less harsh. Something I don’t think I could get from a normal eq. It’s incredible
That's what I was thinking, man. Not only the emulation of full blown tape sound, but also its applications for filtering and smoothing tracks on your mix!
I don’t see much use for it when mixing but I’m going to pick it up for the creative effects you can make with it At least there aren’t screws on the interface
I do. I bought my first CD player in 8th grade in 1989. Recently, I’ve grown tired of my mixtapes sounding so hifi so I’ve been using different tape plugins on them to ad character.
I can't remember the last time I saw Wytse go 3 1/2 minutes without saying a word! As the grin on your face grew slowly wider, lol! So great, not only did you sell me Shapeshifter, now you just made me buy the whole bundle! But seriously, $40??? These are super cool plugins. PS. I was there for tape in the day, and don't let these plugin guys fool you, 90% of the time cassettes sounded really nice. And being there for both at the same time, let me assure you that 8 bit digital is nothing like tape- not even close! Within its bandwidth, tape remains the perfect recording medium as decades of masterpiece recordings prove. Another commenter remarked how ironic that we all battled against noise, high frequency loss, distortion (what we called saturation), and other tape issues that digital recording now seeks to duplicate. But it wasn't until my first compact disc collection that I realized that digital was a cold, lifeless medium. It's taken 35 years for it to finally start catching up and now we have the best of both worlds. Super cool!
@@LogitexG Thx! During the time I also had the chance to test Retro Color from XLN which goes way deeper than DAW Cassette. As it's in Black Friday Sale I would suggest going for this one :)
DAWCassette unfortunately doesn't sound anything like actual cassette tapes to me. It offers some interesting sounds but it's more like a distortion + EQ plugin of some kind. Sketch Cassette sounds far more like actual tape.
I generally really like Klevgrand plugins, but I have to say this is a lot better. SketchCassette just sounds more vintage. The tape wear and dropouts are more convincing.
I bought this on the strength of this review and what I heard and very pleased I did. I’ve found it pretty useful on drum groups. It’s better than some compressors I’ve got, the age function is great for scuzzy great up your audio. If your a sucker for saturation and degradation this plug in is a must and a 20 dollars is an absolute steal. Aesthetically it’s a shame the spools don’t move when you press play.
The GUI looks fun. It looks cool. The GUI looks cheeky and humorous. The GUI looks irreverent and whimsical. The GUI makes me smile and giggle. The GUI looks old school and creative. This is a great coincidence as I am also fun, cheeky and humorous, irreverent and whimsical. And I also like to smile and giggle. And would you believe it...I'm old school and creative too. Incredible.
I've used the usual 'lo-fi/saturating' plugins. This is the one that has a specific sound and feel that the other lack. I normally used to use other plugins and combine them with other EQs and compressors to get the sound/feel that Im looking for. Even then, after tons of tweaking I'd give up and never truly get the warmth or sound that I was looking for. This plugin gives me what Im looking for in an easy to use quick manner that doesn't interrupt my workflow.
Definitely got the vibe right, - and easily worth it for the money. Also, probably a pleasurable experience for those who have never heard the sonic limitations of cassette tapes...
There needs to be a plug-in called pause tapes. Do you remember making them pause tapes? Where you would pause the beat at the end point of the loop rewind and start recording at the front of the loop.
I have this plugin and use it all the time! This review doesn’t really touch on the NR Comp switch, which is actually my favorite part. It sounds awesome on keys!
I really might pick this up. I quite liked the sound. I started mixing on an old 4 track like this emulates. And this version of Sandstorm was a wonderful match for the plugin. Thanks for this!
Seems like a very sympathetic plugin to be honest and for the price, it looks like you really can't go wrong getting it to add LoFi vibe to your tracks :)
You can tell when he really likes something, because there's this smile that is comparable to a kid in a candy store haha. A lot of people now consider this the best lofi plugin.
Back in eighties and early nineties we’d send clients home with rough mixes or even finished mixes and the we’d get calls from the client calling from their home that the tracks sounded horrible. We would then explain that like snowflakes no two cassette players sound alike nor do they sound anything like the master. And it seems like every month we would buy a new cassette recorder in the futile attempt to find a good one. Thank god it’s just an effect now.
A lot of people want that cassette sound, but i'm just thinking about the tone & colours it gives it. This plugin definitely delivers on that. It's much better than wavesfactory's cassette plugin for me thanks to the compressor part and initial sound , less expensive/cpu intensive as well. Klevgrands DAW Cassette is also great but more for melodic instruments and mixed in with the dry/wet
I think when people are talking about the "bit-depth" of cassette tapes, they are referring to the bit depth that gives you an equal analog dynamic range. For example cassette tapes have like 40 dB of dynamic range which you can cover with like 6 bits.
I am a long time fan of cassette degradation and destruction for audio production, and this plugin nails that sound well. My thoughts are that if you're a fan of lofi production, then you will "get" this plugin, and you'll understand why it exists. If you're not, and you're more akin to the likes of crystal clear audio production, then it won't make sense to you, hence you saying "it's a nice gimmick". For those of us who make very textural, experimental music, this plugin is a must-have.
Oh man...this one is awesome! The simulations are JUST like I remember on the original tape types...the metal one took me back in time in my mind 😊😊😊 love it
That’s a cute plugin! Casettes where my childhood. I had a and old computer data recorder in the late 80’s/early 90’s and besides listening to the typical childerns tapes I also listened to my my parents music tapes. I completely wore out my dad’s copy of Invisible Touch from Genesis when I was 6 years old. I have used casettes well into the late 90’s in my eary teens. The hiss simulation of the plugin sounds like how I remember it. Recently I found a nice dual capstan Technics deck at thriftstore, for 35 euro’s I couldn’t resist. Still use casettes to load computer games from time to time.
I love the WOW and flutter, I could see using that with some automation for sure... I might pay 10 bones for this, but not 20... but a cool thing... I like the crayon like UI...
remember playing around with tapes and recording everything on them when I was a kid, I think they've pretty much nailed it, cool plugin to have for some unordinary fx for sure!
This pluggin sounds quite good and can be very useful for creating different tones. I use Klevgrand's DAW Cassette pluggin quite often but it has a different sound, so I might try this one too.
it's possible to roughly translate between analog dynamic range and digital bit depth using error percentages. essentially, you take the digital quantization error and equate it to the amplitude accuracy of the write head used to write the tape plus the playback head used to read it back. this of course spits out nonsensical numbers like "163.95636 bit" but it's somewhat useful
in simpler terms, you compare a perfect sine wave input to the tape machine's output of the same recording at precisely calibrated level, and look at how much each point in time drifted vertically, and calculate the difference as a percent. do this a bunch of times to get an average, and then compare it to the quantization error of a given bit depth to find a rough equivalence
I've been using all kinds of cassette recorders for just about my entire life and I've got to say, the most subtle settings in this video are more extreme than most cheap, poorly maintained cassette decks I've heard. But it does sound good as an effect on its own terms.
actually I have been checking these recently and i think this is the best sounding and most versatile tape emulation. i do have a nice reaktor fx version, but dont reach for it enough and i want to support these guys, see what they come out with in the future. thanks for the review and reminder.
White sea studio ,your videos make me feel saturated. Love the sound and interface of this plugin . Simple , clear and funny. Very fresh ! Lekker fris ja toch ?!
Wow. If I waited for that all the time. It's just great. I got several tape decks and still use them sometimes. The plugin is authentic and very cool for low fi effects. Instant buy :) Thank you for showing. P.S. To compare tape cassette with 8 bit digital is like saying a sand dune is like the Mount Everest.
I actually like the output sound from this. Just wish the guys would be more transparent on how, not just a businessy new tape plugin, which would give us producers more understanding when to use this... you know, since by now there are hundreds of tape plugins, including free ones. Analogue in digital, is all your numbers after the decimal point. You still need high decimal resolution, for your sound to be clear, normal sounding. Literally all sound effects, degrade your sound in certain specific fashion (even reverb), technically that's where you can use your digital, to sound analogue.
I always wanted to buy Goodhertz Wow Control for some tape wobble character, but Wow Control costs $129 . . . this sounds just as nice (but without the same level of control as WOW) and is only $20 . . . instant buy for me !
I remember a guy saying a normal cassette is around 5.4 KHz (didn't check on internet, probably I'm wrong..)..... When we compare it to a stereo cd 44.1 KHz... cassettes were actually pretty good... !
You cannot compare tape to a sample rate. I wouldn't doubt if that is technically correct, but analog isn't a 'brick wall' like digital. More information is in there other than the accurate representation of the original information. 'Lost' information still makes it into the mix via harmonics.
I agree, lowering the bitrate is not at all comparable. Ideally, because of the very nature of analogue, you dont want to be lowering bitrates when emulating it, in my opinion. I certainly don't in my own plugins. This isn't the way to emulate analogue. Analogue has a lot of nuance, variation, and depth. 8-bit is anything but that.
Sounds good. Very useful for Lofi/ chill hop type music. Or running your samples through it before you put them in your sampler and stuff like that. Edit: I just bought it.
Love it! People look at me funny for remaining a cassette enthusiast, so this helps me feel vindicated. And now that decent tapes sell for $5 each, this seems totally worth it.
Wow, as a lofi vibrato its already very usefull. I have not found a simple good vibrato plugin (like Lo Fi Junky, chase bliss warped vinyl) yet. Only the Mvibrato plugin, but that one is a bit boring. Any tips people?
Seriously, even OrilRiver (free) reverb vst uses vibrato. Your DAW should support adding additional track where you can sinc vibrato creating repeatable custom lines, to any sound. There are countless free plugins for that as well... it's 2020 lol
Oh, I was just about to buy a collector's edition of sandstorm on 4 cassettes (with covers and remixes from Skrillex, Metallica, Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix), but now I can just use this plugin and get the same aesthetic
Haha... It's a nice emulation. It really reminds me the hit album 1985, my only cassette for a long time, that I was listening all day long on my walkman
Haha, I literally just read an article about portishead, who used cassettes a lot to process their sounds... come to think of it, I did some of my favourite samples on my old tascam 4 track (I didn’t have anything else at the time). Maybe I should dig it out of the loft.
The best 20 bucks I've ever spent on a plugin. @slowhaunt totally agree with you re the top end. I use this in every session, nothing else sounds like it. Incredible on snare drums and kicks too, amongst loads more. Brilliant!
D B By keeping the track as a constant, those who are in search of a particular type or style of tape emulation plug-in can use this video to compare with another of White Sea Studio’s videos on a different tape emulation, for example. This is very useful for individuals who may be unsure of whether to choose one product over others that are similar.
my toughts excactly...you can only approach tape hiss thus limited in range or too static. I could hear that immediately as well. That said the rest of the functionality sounds really good, and imo, as Wytse says very useful !
@@evoltap tape hiss is a byproduct of of the tape resulotion-to-read ratio. It's the size of the magnetic particles on the tape. You can compensate with faster tape, thicker tape, and stuff like DBX. So I wanna know if this plugin changes the amount of hiss by emulation of that or tape width or speed or if its just a volume slider on a recording of hiss.
Anyone else find it ironic that back in the days of analog, everyone was trying to get rid of noise and distortion to accurately reproduce sound without coloring it, and now it's big business to try to color/distort the sound?
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I actually don't find it ironic at all. there was a preference for the character and saturation analog tools provided back in their heyday, as well as the desire to have control over those qualities. now we have the luxury of having that control and ability to apply it whenever and to the extent that we want. it's a great time to be making music!
there was nothing worse than bloody cassettes. Apart from the awful poor quality sound, the tape would mangle, stretch and so on. . . .
I bought this plugin about a month ago and I have used it on every single one of my productions since I got it. When I have a digital synth that’s way too much in the high register, I drop it on and leave it at its default and it puts the perfect amount of low pass on it to make it less harsh. Something I don’t think I could get from a normal eq. It’s incredible
Lmao bro I’m watching plugin videos and I literally just thought of you while watching this. Then I scroll down in the comments and BOOM here you are.
@@tqatkins HAHAHAHAHA NICE! Sketch Cassette is bomb tho
slowhaunt Yeah I’m definitely going to get it.
That's what I was thinking, man. Not only the emulation of full blown tape sound, but also its applications for filtering and smoothing tracks on your mix!
That is a fun thing to have around. It might even be useful. I will be picking this up based on your review. Thank you
I could definitely see using this as a modulation effect on guitar tracks.
100%
They recently did a very good update. Worth revisiting again
I don’t see much use for it when mixing but I’m going to pick it up for the creative effects you can make with it
At least there aren’t screws on the interface
I do. I bought my first CD player in 8th grade in 1989. Recently, I’ve grown tired of my mixtapes sounding so hifi so I’ve been using different tape plugins on them to ad character.
This really sounds like a lot of fun. The sound of it takes me right back to the 70s/80s.
I cannot remember the last time I saw you acting, dare I say, giddy when exploring a new plug-in. That was really fun.
That music takes me into a Hal Hartley movie. Good shit!
I can't remember the last time I saw Wytse go 3 1/2 minutes without saying a word! As the grin on your face grew slowly wider, lol! So great, not only did you sell me Shapeshifter, now you just made me buy the whole bundle! But seriously, $40??? These are super cool plugins. PS. I was there for tape in the day, and don't let these plugin guys fool you, 90% of the time cassettes sounded really nice. And being there for both at the same time, let me assure you that 8 bit digital is nothing like tape- not even close! Within its bandwidth, tape remains the perfect recording medium as decades of masterpiece recordings prove. Another commenter remarked how ironic that we all battled against noise, high frequency loss, distortion (what we called saturation), and other tape issues that digital recording now seeks to duplicate. But it wasn't until my first compact disc collection that I realized that digital was a cold, lifeless medium. It's taken 35 years for it to finally start catching up and now we have the best of both worlds. Super cool!
Did anyone compared it to DAWCassette by Klevgrand? :O this would be interesting!
yeah, this is so much better. dawcasette feels more like a distortion/saturation plugin
@@LogitexG Thx! During the time I also had the chance to test Retro Color from XLN which goes way deeper than DAW Cassette. As it's in Black Friday Sale I would suggest going for this one :)
@@schlachTzeug i have that one too, love it
DAWCassette unfortunately doesn't sound anything like actual cassette tapes to me. It offers some interesting sounds but it's more like a distortion + EQ plugin of some kind. Sketch Cassette sounds far more like actual tape.
I generally really like Klevgrand plugins, but I have to say this is a lot better. SketchCassette just sounds more vintage. The tape wear and dropouts are more convincing.
I had the demo and was using it on all my melodys bought the new version and it has amazing results it helps to marry your sounds in the mix
Hi WSS, could you make a snake oil of the IK multimedia Tape machine plugins?
I bought this on the strength of this review and what I heard and very pleased I did. I’ve found it pretty useful on drum groups. It’s better than some compressors I’ve got, the age function is great for scuzzy great up your audio. If your a sucker for saturation and degradation this plug in is a must and a 20 dollars is an absolute steal. Aesthetically it’s a shame the spools don’t move when you press play.
I got it on recommendation. So I brought the plug-in, turns out I really love it. One of the best $20 I've ever spent on a cheap plugin.
Watching this plugin work filled me iwht NOSTALGIA.
Had it for a couple of years now. It's by far my favorite tape emulation plugin. The only one that haven't dissapointed me in terms of sound.
Aberrant DSP are consistently crafting up magic.
The design is just so unique!
The GUI looks fun. It looks cool. The GUI looks cheeky and humorous. The GUI looks irreverent and whimsical. The GUI makes me smile and giggle. The GUI looks old school and creative. This is a great coincidence as I am also fun, cheeky and humorous, irreverent and whimsical. And I also like to smile and giggle. And would you believe it...I'm old school and creative too. Incredible.
I've used the usual 'lo-fi/saturating' plugins. This is the one that has a specific sound and feel that the other lack. I normally used to use other plugins and combine them with other EQs and compressors to get the sound/feel that Im looking for. Even then, after tons of tweaking I'd give up and never truly get the warmth or sound that I was looking for. This plugin gives me what Im looking for in an easy to use quick manner that doesn't interrupt my workflow.
Definitely got the vibe right, - and easily worth it for the money. Also, probably a pleasurable experience for those who have never heard the sonic limitations of cassette tapes...
I record instruments on tape and then back into my daw. A few weeks ago I was thinking about a plugin like that one, that's great :D
There needs to be a plug-in called pause tapes. Do you remember making them pause tapes? Where you would pause the beat at the end point of the loop rewind and start recording at the front of the loop.
I have this plugin and use it all the time! This review doesn’t really touch on the NR Comp switch, which is actually my favorite part. It sounds awesome on keys!
It definitely seems useful for nostalgia, like Isotope Vinyl. I actually love the interface, and I'm not a hipster, I swear!
Great! I first thought it was a case set to be sketchy, but you proved me wrong!
I'm just going to say Sketch Cassette is flipping awesome! Been using it a lot the last month.
I was actually looking for a cassette tape plugin and I will definitely check this one out.
I wish it had a dry/wet knob.
cant you do that by daw?
Reaper 😜
airwindows ToTape5. It's free and very nice. And has a dry/wet knob.
I really might pick this up. I quite liked the sound. I started mixing on an old 4 track like this emulates.
And this version of Sandstorm was a wonderful match for the plugin.
Thanks for this!
Seems like a very sympathetic plugin to be honest and for the price, it looks like you really can't go wrong getting it to add LoFi vibe to your tracks :)
You can tell when he really likes something, because there's this smile that is comparable to a kid in a candy store haha. A lot of people now consider this the best lofi plugin.
This was seriously cool. I think I'll be trying this thing out. I seriously dig the interface. Right on.
Back in eighties and early nineties we’d send clients home with rough mixes or even finished mixes and the we’d get calls from the client calling from their home that the tracks sounded horrible. We would then explain that like snowflakes no two cassette players sound alike nor do they sound anything like the master. And it seems like every month we would buy a new cassette recorder in the futile attempt to find a good one. Thank god it’s just an effect now.
this track is actually Water Lillies by Cyrus Wiggins - great track deserving of the credit
I love this plugin. It's great for synths and strings.
A lot of people want that cassette sound, but i'm just thinking about the tone & colours it gives it. This plugin definitely delivers on that. It's much better than wavesfactory's cassette plugin for me thanks to the compressor part and initial sound , less expensive/cpu intensive as well. Klevgrands DAW Cassette is also great but more for melodic instruments and mixed in with the dry/wet
It's a really cool effect. Thanks for the discovery. Big up !!
Love this thing. Just picked it up for Black Friday! Though this video is for the older version. Still similar nonetheless.
I love it. Will buy. Good track to illustrate with also.
I am gonna buy it because of this vid
I think when people are talking about the "bit-depth" of cassette tapes, they are referring to the bit depth that gives you an equal analog dynamic range. For example cassette tapes have like 40 dB of dynamic range which you can cover with like 6 bits.
I am a long time fan of cassette degradation and destruction for audio production, and this plugin nails that sound well. My thoughts are that if you're a fan of lofi production, then you will "get" this plugin, and you'll understand why it exists. If you're not, and you're more akin to the likes of crystal clear audio production, then it won't make sense to you, hence you saying "it's a nice gimmick". For those of us who make very textural, experimental music, this plugin is a must-have.
Sketch Cassette, DAWCassette, Wow Control, Wavesfactory Cassette or Bad Tape?? All sound pretty damn cool to me.
Cassettes were the mp3 if their day. If you had to use them you were glad when you got your first 1/4 tape machine or digital recorder.
Gret looking and sounding plugin, and also it seems to fit perfectly to your tune
Sand Storm! My favorite song of all time.
I use this to take synths back to the 80s.
Oh man...this one is awesome! The simulations are JUST like I remember on the original tape types...the metal one took me back in time in my mind 😊😊😊 love it
That’s a cute plugin! Casettes where my childhood. I had a and old computer data recorder in the late 80’s/early 90’s and besides listening to the typical childerns tapes I also listened to my my parents music tapes. I completely wore out my dad’s copy of Invisible Touch from Genesis when I was 6 years old. I have used casettes well into the late 90’s in my eary teens. The hiss simulation of the plugin sounds like how I remember it. Recently I found a nice dual capstan Technics deck at thriftstore, for 35 euro’s I couldn’t resist. Still use casettes to load computer games from time to time.
I love the WOW and flutter, I could see using that with some automation for sure... I might pay 10 bones for this, but not 20... but a cool thing... I like the crayon like UI...
remember playing around with tapes and recording everything on them when I was a kid, I think they've pretty much nailed it, cool plugin to have for some unordinary fx for sure!
Atomic except it’s way too over in all way, cassettes are not bad. Only the usual consumer players were complete shit
This pluggin sounds quite good and can be very useful for creating different tones.
I use Klevgrand's DAW Cassette pluggin quite often but it has a different sound, so I might try this one too.
I think you are the coolest dude man! Keep doing your thing !!!!
It sounds beautiful
it's possible to roughly translate between analog dynamic range and digital bit depth using error percentages. essentially, you take the digital quantization error and equate it to the amplitude accuracy of the write head used to write the tape plus the playback head used to read it back. this of course spits out nonsensical numbers like "163.95636 bit" but it's somewhat useful
in simpler terms, you compare a perfect sine wave input to the tape machine's output of the same recording at precisely calibrated level, and look at how much each point in time drifted vertically, and calculate the difference as a percent. do this a bunch of times to get an average, and then compare it to the quantization error of a given bit depth to find a rough equivalence
I've been using all kinds of cassette recorders for just about my entire life and I've got to say, the most subtle settings in this video are more extreme than most cheap, poorly maintained cassette decks I've heard. But it does sound good as an effect on its own terms.
actually I have been checking these recently and i think this is the best sounding and most versatile tape emulation. i do have a nice reaktor fx version, but dont reach for it enough and i want to support these guys, see what they come out with in the future. thanks for the review and reminder.
I love this thing. It pairs well with Digitalis also.
Way better then expected.
"Its not annoying me...I love it"
Elysia Phil’s Cascade!! Please review it! Then do Bx Focusrite emulation!
So does it...oversample? (sorry but your other video has me worrying about such things).
White sea studio ,your videos make me feel saturated. Love the sound and interface of this plugin . Simple , clear and funny. Very fresh ! Lekker fris ja toch ?!
The best cassette tape simulation plugin to me. Sounds very much like cassette tape. I would place Wavefactory Cassette the top second !
Wow. If I waited for that all the time. It's just great. I got several tape decks and still use them sometimes. The plugin is authentic and very cool for low fi effects. Instant buy :)
Thank you for showing.
P.S.
To compare tape cassette with 8 bit digital is like saying a sand dune is like the Mount Everest.
I actually like the output sound from this. Just wish the guys would be more transparent on how, not just a businessy new tape plugin, which would give us producers more understanding when to use this... you know, since by now there are hundreds of tape plugins, including free ones.
Analogue in digital, is all your numbers after the decimal point. You still need high decimal resolution, for your sound to be clear, normal sounding. Literally all sound effects, degrade your sound in certain specific fashion (even reverb), technically that's where you can use your digital, to sound analogue.
Why aren't the wheels turning? Funny coincident, I have been re-recording my old tapes to .wav this past week. This plugin sounds very close.
Very cool. Good features for effects channel. Awesome design and makes sense.
This is a great investment! Thanks for the review. Bought it and am using it and really digging the results!
Bought this one immediately. On sale for $10 right now.
That’s a cool sounding plugin!
Wouldn't think saying this but actually it's great as a creative tool.
Wow this plugin sounds useful. Another great video. Really like your channel, great content.✨👍🏼✨👏🏻
I always wanted to buy Goodhertz Wow Control for some tape wobble character, but Wow Control costs $129 . . . this sounds just as nice (but without the same level of control as WOW) and is only $20 . . . instant buy for me !
I remember a guy saying a normal cassette is around 5.4 KHz (didn't check on internet, probably I'm wrong..).....
When we compare it to a stereo cd 44.1 KHz... cassettes were actually pretty good... !
You cannot compare tape to a sample rate. I wouldn't doubt if that is technically correct, but analog isn't a 'brick wall' like digital. More information is in there other than the accurate representation of the original information. 'Lost' information still makes it into the mix via harmonics.
Whats completely missing out is the azimuth shift and channel cross talk.
I agree, lowering the bitrate is not at all comparable. Ideally, because of the very nature of analogue, you dont want to be lowering bitrates when emulating it, in my opinion. I certainly don't in my own plugins. This isn't the way to emulate analogue. Analogue has a lot of nuance, variation, and depth. 8-bit is anything but that.
I just got a plugin that's basically a raw version of this. I like this better! Im getting it. This is dope!
Sounds good. Very useful for Lofi/ chill hop type music. Or running your samples through it before you put them in your sampler and stuff like that.
Edit: I just bought it.
Love it! People look at me funny for remaining a cassette enthusiast, so this helps me feel vindicated. And now that decent tapes sell for $5 each, this seems totally worth it.
Wow, as a lofi vibrato its already very usefull. I have not found a simple good vibrato plugin (like Lo Fi Junky, chase bliss warped vinyl) yet. Only the Mvibrato plugin, but that one is a bit boring. Any tips people?
Seriously, even OrilRiver (free) reverb vst uses vibrato. Your DAW should support adding additional track where you can sinc vibrato creating repeatable custom lines, to any sound. There are countless free plugins for that as well... it's 2020 lol
I love that! Going to go buy it!
Oh, I was just about to buy a collector's edition of sandstorm on 4 cassettes (with covers and remixes from Skrillex, Metallica, Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix), but now I can just use this plugin and get the same aesthetic
I'd suggest to the dev to add a side A and B button; and have A->B and B->A... with saved fx parameters.
How is it on the master bus as a kind of mix glue? Or is it best used on individual tracks?
This is great! I love it already - no motor noise though? (Joking)
Haha... It's a nice emulation. It really reminds me the hit album 1985, my only cassette for a long time, that I was listening all day long on my walkman
Thank you, I was looking for exactly such a plugin
Bruh, you should check out House of Kush plug ins. By far my new favorite plug manufacturer. Cool stuff.
Haha, I literally just read an article about portishead, who used cassettes a lot to process their sounds... come to think of it, I did some of my favourite samples on my old tascam 4 track (I didn’t have anything else at the time). Maybe I should dig it out of the loft.
The best 20 bucks I've ever spent on a plugin. @slowhaunt totally agree with you re the top end. I use this in every session, nothing else sounds like it. Incredible on snare drums and kicks too, amongst loads more. Brilliant!
Dude, I like Darude - Sanstorm but it gets boring using the same song over and over again.
About to say the same,
its good to have a reference song you know the ins-outs of.. that way you can hear exactly how its being affected.
Certainly more beneficial to have a constant than something new and unfamiliar for each new product
D B By keeping the track as a constant, those who are in search of a particular type or style of tape emulation plug-in can use this video to compare with another of White Sea Studio’s videos on a different tape emulation, for example. This is very useful for individuals who may be unsure of whether to choose one product over others that are similar.
Dude, Sandstorm never gets old, Dude.
Great for orchestrating, 60’s strings ,mellotron..
Is the hiss circuit emulation... or just a recording of hiss?
my toughts excactly...you can only approach tape hiss thus limited in range or too static. I could hear that immediately as well.
That said the rest of the functionality sounds really good, and imo, as Wytse says very useful !
definitely not, thats some amateur ishhhhh and these guys are the real deal!
Mattytime -most of the hiss you hear from tape is not the circuit, it’s the tape. When you hit play there is hiss coming off the tape.
@@evoltap tape hiss is a byproduct of of the tape resulotion-to-read ratio. It's the size of the magnetic particles on the tape. You can compensate with faster tape, thicker tape, and stuff like DBX. So I wanna know if this plugin changes the amount of hiss by emulation of that or tape width or speed or if its just a volume slider on a recording of hiss.
Mattytime i would guess the latter, a recording of hiss
love the gui! sounds good as well
Does anyone have an idea why it only works on my left speaker? Even if I select Stereo it doesn't work.
My DAW is Reaper.
It is a pretty cool plugin, sounds useful as well. $20.00 isnt bad. Might give this a try.
How many versions of sandstorm are there? I like this one! Where can I hear it?
Personally i have a similar product an this one sounds realy authentic to cassette tapes.