So yeah, saying "I don't know which one is better" and then asking strangers on a forum which on is better strikes me as pretty crazy - put each of them on the master, mix through them, tweak some controls, and figure out which one you like, because you're the only person who can figure that out. I'm really not that concerned with whether or not they're 99.99999% identical to the machines they're modelling - they all sound great either way. I use these ones because they're the ones that suit my workflow the best, and seem to get me to the sound in my head the fastest. I've liked Satin when I've used it, but I don't use it very often - my most frequently-used tape plugs are the UAD Ampex & Studer, followed by Softube Tape, and sometimes Waves J37. So yeah, saying "I don't know which one is better" and then asking strangers on a forum which one is better strikes me as pretty crazy - asking which we subjectively prefer would maybe be more sensible, but it still won't tell you which one you prefer - put each of them on the master, mix through them, tweak some controls, and figure out which one you like, because you're the only person who can figure that out.īut if you want random opinion from a complete stranger: I find Slate to be a bit too exaggerated, esp in the low end - it can be good for a specific character sometimes, but I don't find it very useful either on the master, or stacking multiple instances across tracks. If you want a "warm, analog sound" then that will likely involve some saturation / harmonic generation, a bass boost from the simulated head bump, and, depending on how hard you hit the tape, some transient rounding and possibly a gentle rolling off of high frequencies, all of which probably subtract from the "truthfulness" of the sound that you refer to.
Your question seems somewhat contradictory - first you say you want a "warm, analog sound" but then follow that by saying the "truthfulness" (whatever that is) of the modelled machine is important. If you've never worked with tape anyway, (or even if you had) why is absolute accuracy important to you? If you wouldn't know that accuracy even if you heard it, why worry about it? Isn't it more important you use a tool that helps you achieve the sound you want, rather than worrying about whether a plugin sounds EXACTLY like a tape machine you've never used? You say you "don't know which one sounds better" - there's a very simple way to determine this:ġ) Put each of them in the master in turnĤ) The one you picked in step 3 sounds better (to you) The "best" one is whichever one sounds best to you on the particular track you're working on. That may well be true, but the sound it produced was exactly right for what I needed, aliasing/whatever and all.Īnd guess what - your graph / opinion doesn't make my mix sound any different. I use plenty of synth and fx plugins in both my own and other people's productions that I'm sure plenty of people would say are "trash", or people would be all like "Well, I ran this through Plugin Doctor, and the aliasing is horrible" etc. It's important to develop your own confidence in your decisions - rather than constantly going back and forth worrying about whether you have the "best" tape emulator, I'd suggest it would be much more useful for you to assess whether or not you like the ones you're using.įor example - above, you said that you used the Slate today, but now people here are saying it's not that great - ask yourself this: were YOU happy with the results you got when you used it? If you were, then what does it matter what someone else's opinion of that plugin is? Does that suddenly make your mix worse? The production and the mix should be there to support the writing, arrangement and performance - if those things aren't great, then you can throw as many tape plugins at the mix as you want, the life isn't suddenly gonna appear.Īnd sure, a good mixer can add a certain amount of polish/excitement to an average performance/production, but there's a limit to the amount of salvage work that can actually be done. You'll get "life" from your writing, arrangement, and performances (and capturing those performances as best as you can). Click to expand.We get that, but what do you actually want to achieve with your sound? You said you wanted to "add life" to your mixes - I'm sorry to tell you, but a tape plugin isn't gonna do that.
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