Tape Machine Plugins: Everything You Need to Know

Modern engineers are spoiled. We have keyboard shortcuts for making edits, crossfading and even quantizing. But back when engineers still routinely recorded to tape, they needed a pair of scissors and special tape to make cuts.

While most engineers don’t miss the hassles that come with using a tape machine, we all miss the sound. Tape machines impart a unique combination of equalization, compression and saturation to audio signals. The exact effect a tape machine has on a track depends on a number of settings.

This is an excerpt from Tape Machine Plugins: Everything You Need to Know, originally published by The Pro Audio Files. Read the full version here.

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