the 70s and 80s called they want their tape cassette sound back so let's give it to
them in this video i'm going to do a quick review of the wavesfactory cassette plugin
if you want to create some lofi beats or maybe add some character to your tracks
this plugin will help i'm zane thank you so much for checking out this simple green tech video
and just so you know i've linked to the wavesfactory cassette plugin over on plugin boutique
just in case there's some sales on over there it regularly goes for around sixty dollars
but they sometimes have deals on it that's when i purchased this plugin when it was on sale
but right now let's jump in and check out wavesfactory cassette
whether you're just using it in the intro of your song or the bridge or maybe you're
using it on an instrument through the entire track wavesfactory cassette will give you a
sound that separates you from all the other digital music that's being created nowadays
so let's look at the control settings a little bit right off the bat of course you notice the giant
cassette tape right in the middle of the plugin and this can be changed they actually modeled
four different cassette tapes and each one has a different sound to it tape 1 is a standard tape
format and if you're a tape nerd it had a ferric oxide coating this style first appeared in the 60s
tape 2 for the cassette nerds is a chromium dioxide style of tape and
these were introduced in the 70s it has an increased high frequency response
tape 3 is a ferrochrome style tape and that came out in the mid 70s and lasted until the early 80s
and tape 4 is a metal formulated tape that came around near the end of the 70s and it gives you
firmer bass and louder high frequencies and if you weren't a tape cassette nerd before now you know
that not all tape cassettes were created equally so let's give them a listen to hear how each one
sounds
not only were the tapes themselves different but the cassette players
also had a big role in the sound too wavesfactory cassette gives you three different
cassette player types a pro deck which is a tascam 414 4c recorder there's the micro and
this is an omega reporter 20 hand recorder then there's the home which is a mix between the pro
and the micro changing the deck style will result in a different frequency response
different saturation different compression different hiss and different dynamic noise
down here you have six control knobs erasers is based on a tape that is being recorded over
multiple times and this knob ranges from 1 to 20 times the spread knob controls the amount of
stereo field stability ranges from zero to one hundred percent and this controls the amount of
wow and flutter when it's at one hundred percent stability there will be no pitch fluctuations
at zero percent also known as full instability the wow and flutter amount will be 100 controlled from
the wow depth and the flutter depth parameters in the settings panel and you can access the settings
panel by clicking on the gear icon and in here you can see you have access to a lot more settings
the static noise knob controls the amount of hiss that you add to the signal the dynamic noise knob
also known as asperity noise it's caused by small imperfections in the surface of the magnetic tape
and this results in a frequency dependent stereo noise that can make a track sound
wider so this knob controls that this next knob is artifacts and this one controls the
amount of degradation and dropouts degradation or where is random high frequency loss at slow rate
and dropouts is random frequency loss at a high rate and of course you have the input and output
knobs and these will allow you to increase the warmth so you can crank up the input and then
lower the output so you can create a saturated distorted sound and here's a demo of that
you also get several presets that get you started and it kind of sounds funny but
this is a high quality lo-fi plug-in that allows you to get a lofi sound
without really compromising the quality of your audio signal if you want to check out even
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon