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Zeppelin4Life · 5th January 2006

A good answer would be that plugins can definetly add warmth and character to the sound, but they definetly do not sound like tape. With that said, they are pretty cool. If you think about how complex the algorithms are, it's amazing. But only tape sounds like tape; to my ears at least. For the price of a few of thoes plugins you can go out and get a decent old 1/4" reel2reel at 15ips...thats what i did..my revox is totally awesome.

5th January 2006	#9
Zeppelin4Life Gear maniac Joined: Feb 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA/Harvard University Posts: 262	A good answer would be that plugins can definetly add warmth and character to the sound, but they definetly do not sound like tape. With that said, they are pretty cool. If you think about how complex the algorithms are, it's amazing. But only tape sounds like tape; to my ears at least. For the price of a few of thoes plugins you can go out and get a decent old 1/4" reel2reel at 15ips...thats what i did..my revox is totally awesome. __________________ stike “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” stike