Espen Kraft | Comparison | Tape vs hardware vs plugin saturation/compression @EspenKraft | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
What device do you prefer to give your sounds some tape-like saturation and compression? I sometimes use regular cassettes to record on before importing that back to the DAW. At other times I use hardware gear or plugins to achieve the this. It all depends. Let's compare.
This is not a lab experiment of finding the "better" way. It's just meant to show different ways of achieving a cool vintage saturated distorted sound.

00:00 Intro
01:01 Recording to tape
01:49 The sound of tape saturation
02:52 The sound of hardware saturation
04:08 The sound of plugin saturation
04:57 Back to back comparison

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