Cassette is an audio plugin that emulates the sound of vintage cassette tapes and decks. It has been carefully modelled after exhaustive analysis of a high number of sound signals recorded into real tapes.
Magnetic tape is not a sterile media. It imparts its own sound signature to signals recorded into it. These include a different frequency response, frequency dependent saturation, high-frequency compression, hiss, asperity noise and much more. Reproduction systems will also induce their fingerprint: wow, flutter, random high-frequency loss, crosstalk between channels, stereo unbalances and other.
All of these little quirks and random fluctuations have been modelled meticulously. Cassette imprints instant nostalgia, movement and analog feel all around in its path.
System requirements:
Mac and Windows (AAX / VST / VST3 / AU), 64 bit.
Price:
Special intro price during November: €29
Regular price: €59
More info:
https://www.wavesfactory.com/cassette
This looks and sounds great. However, there are a couple of big things I'm missing. One is a desireable, but the other would be possibly more important to me than anything else.
1. Dolby - especially the effect of something recorded with Dolby B, then replayed without, which to everyone's ears sounded better and damn the tape hiss.
2. Boom box record emulation. This is the biggie. Those of a certain age... ever noticed how that cheap boom box recording of the old band rehearsals actually sound great? Auto gain slamming into some cheap limiter, crunchy as hell but sounds enormous. Typically accompanied by buzz and all kinds of mechanical noises. This is the gateway to true nostalgic nirvana.
