Get the sound of classic 4-track tape machines without the hassle of actually using one. This affordable plug-in is a trip down memory lane - but also great for your productions.
In these days of ultra-polished digital sound, it's perhaps no surprise that some producers yearn for something a little more crusty. Enter SketchCassette, an affordable plug-in that emulates the sound of old 4-track cassette recorders. If your music career started long enough ago, you'll remember the compromises but also the character that came from working with these machines.
Inspired by 4-track cassette recorders, SketchCassette is designed to introduce a wide array of lo-fi tape effects into your mixes. From subtle warble to unearthed-from-the-attic destruction, SketchCassette is your one-stop-shop for anything and everything cheap tape.
Features
Age modeling
Saturation
Highly adjustable wow & flutter
Dropouts
Tape hiss
Tape type frequency profiles
Noise-reduction encoding compression
Developed by Aberrant DSP with R&D assistance from J.R. Hyde and Kyle Ohlschlager.
Hollin Jones was classically trained as a piano player but found the lure of blues and jazz too much to resist. Graduating from bands to composition then production, he relishes the chance to play anything with keys.
A sometime lecturer in videographics, music production and photography post production, Hollin has been a freelance writer on music technology and Apple topics for well over a decade, along the way publishing several books on audio software. He has been lead writer at a number of prominent music and technology publications.
As well as consultancy, full-time journalism, video production and professional photography, he occasionally plays Hammond, Rhodes and other keys for people who ask nicely.
Hollin is Contributing Editor at Ask.Audio.
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