Cassette tape saturation plug in??

[Elvis]

Anyone know if there is a good tape saturation plug in that can get some real effect type sounds instead of just subtle tape compression? Looking for a real trashy cassette sound and/or vhs sound. Thanks.

[cavern]

I don't know of any but for $25,you could get the real thing(casette deck or vhs) and run your track through those.
I forget who(pro engineer) that said,if you want the sound of a real bell,record a real bell.
Or something to that effect.

[Naurashaun]

I know what you mean man craig silvey ran some of the portisheads tracks to cassette and back, the UAD ATR102 has a 3.5 setting when driven hard sounds gooood but the best solution I've found is slam it to a cassette and record back!

[backplay]

If you tweak this one enough, it can sound similar to a cassette.

Roundtone VST - Tape emulation

[claesbjo]

Soundtoys echoboy can do this stuff pretty good

[Bill@WelcomeHome]

because a real cassette deck is rare, expensive, and hard to maintain?

[huub]

I had an album that I used to listen to on tape (the tape was pretty worn out).
When I found the album on CD, i was dissapointed because it was very early 90ies sounding, with too much high and not too much low end.
I recreated the trashy tape sound with plenty of massey tapehead and some highshelving (-5 dB or so, maybe even more)

For real trashy VHS quality you can warble with pitch modulation

[duckoff]

Nebula has some moody cassette progs with dodgy azimuth & everything

[Electric Sugar]

Get a dead cheap Tascam 4-track off Ebay. I have 2. You can do all sorts with them.

[duckoff]

or Airwindows iron oxide.

[LeMauce]

Originally Posted by Electric Sugar

Get a dead cheap Tascam 4-track off Ebay. I have 2. You can do all sorts with them.

FFS dont give away the secrets!!!

[bugscoe]

The UAD Studer has a Cassete Deck preset. However I've never tried that particular preset so I can't vouch for the how close it gets.

[chrisj]

Originally Posted by duckoff

or Airwindows iron oxide.

...which is about to be updated into Iron Oxide 2

Nobody else knows, but since you were good enough to mention it, this thread gets to hear first. The demo's already up and it's actually already out right now, I just didn't announce it. It's a Mac Audio Unit (hope you can run 'em but I know that doesn't work for everybody)

Here's the demo- http://www.jinxtigr.com/f/IronOxide2Demo.dmg just crush the tape speeds down to really low, and increase the lows tape speed if you want to trap in some of the bass- tape low end doesn't really scale with cassette- not as if you had 1/4" running at 1.5 ips. You want to be claiming the low end is more like 7-15 ips if you're trying to imitate a cassette because the tape size is so much smaller.

[dubhausdisco]

Get a real deck- dirt cheap!

[theblue1]

Originally Posted by Bill@WelcomeHome

because a real cassette deck is rare, expensive, and hard to maintain?

No 'mix' control to dial in that Goldilocks setting.

[djanthonyw]

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