I am currently doing a 2 week demo of universal audio's tape recorder plugins. They are the studer 800 and ampex atr 102. These 2 machines were the cream of the crop and still are in top studios. I think I am getting them figured and will probably buy them. I did a couple of solo harp/vocal songs with them and IMO sound pretty close to the tape sound I grew up with in the studios. I dig a clean warm sounding solo harp recording and I am getting close here. Walter
---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
Walter there is a definite warmth in tape. Some digital records by some folks are icy cold. I can hear the difference in films of the Philadelphia Orchestra analog and current digital audio on video. I prefer the analog for the warmth. I was thinking of getting tube warmer for some recording.
---------- Emile "Diggs" D'Amico a Legend In His Own Mind How you doin'
Hi Diggs: I have tried many of the plugins that are suppose to give tape warmth. None do. They add dullness more than anything. The universal audio plugins are regarded as amoung the best out there. They are pricey and you have to use thier uad cards but the results are well worth it. Most big studios today have them on their systems. I have read several articles from todays top engineers who work with tape machines and they were very impressed with the ones I am using. My songs from yesterday were all done with the tape simulators. I notice a much warmer sound. Walter
a common mistake I see, and I made, is buying cheap preamps that claim to be tube driven. In reality the tube is more for window dressing and is not truely functional as a tube sound source. Also cheap large diaphram condensor mics and cheap tube mics are another source for thin crap sound. My universal audio 6176, a combination of the classic 610 preamp and the 1176 compressor is a powerful piece of hardware and the price reflects it! My friend Mark Rubinstien has earned grammy and platinum awards for his engineering skills with natile cole, judy collins, cher, and people like that. His specialty is making digital recording have analoug warmth. He tells me this is a labor intensive process that takes countless hours of minutely dissecting each sound. He also tells me that analog makes lots of hiss/noise. We played the miles davis shades of blue and man what a lovely recording, but full of tape, preamp, hiss. Digital removes all this and he tells me most people forget that that hiss and hum added warmth to the old tape sound as well as the properties of the tape proccess. THe universal audio tape simulators come with the hiss and hum. The studer and ampex are realitively quiet machines compared to their predicessors but you can still hear it and can also mess with the bias and eq settings for the magnetic heads. Basically it comes with all the controls of the real one including different types of tape! He has given 2 thumbs up to the universal audio studer and ampex tape emulators. Walter ---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
I did a song tonight with overdubbing the harp and added some photos to it. The quality of the photos is not very good for whatever reasons but the sonic quality of the recording is pretty good. I used the tape simulator plugins on this one. Walter
---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
