Hello all,
The purpose of this post is to gather some opinions on the
use of 'tape distortion' plugins.
Hi!
This is an interesting topic.
Regarding "Analog Tape Magic", there are lot more feelings than hard
scientific facts and
this needs to be improved. Yes, recording to and reading from a tape has
an effect on sound.
But is it worth wasting CPU to simulate complex behavior instead of
chaining basic DSP blocks?
imho, no but this is still interesting from a research standpoint
Regarding your approach of white box reverse engineering, have you had a
look at
Jatin Chowdhury's work on the subject?
(https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/AnalogTapeModel).
He went quite far simulating the full chain and his plugin has acquired
quite a reputation.
Someone recently went with the black box approach and got some good
results too.
Chris from Airwindows (https://www.airwindows.com/) generally takes
unusual approaches
to visit a subject and publishes everything in an open source way.
Not sure if he can be trusted (imho, he can) but Wytse Gerichhausen from
White Sea Studios,
famous for independently reviewing plugins, said that it (ToTape 7 from
AirWindows) really captured
the "tape vibe" (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czDSnNZuE6g).
If I were to create a pop/rock in the 60-70s style, I would certainly
try to have virtual equipments as close
to possible as the one that were used and follow the audio processing of
that time to get "that sound".
On a modern track, aside from some gimmick effects like a tape echo, I
wouldn't bother to use such a plugin
unless I'm 100% sure this would change audibly, and for good, the result.
Anyway I'll watch LAC replay and see your results 🙂
Regards,
Yoann
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