break away from digital blandness and add some vintage warmth to your tracks in this video i'm
checking out the baby audio TAIP plugin i'm gonna be putting it on several tracks in a mix plus
on some buses including the mixbus and we'll see if we can liven up our track with this i'm zane
welcome to audio tech tv i've included a link down in the description to the baby
audio TAIP plugin so you can check it out for yourself it has a starting price of just
39 and it's available on mac and windows in vst vst3 au and aax formats
now with TAIP plugins you can pretty much put them everywhere in your mix which is kind of
what we're going to be doing here now let's start out with checking it out on our drum buss
so i can hear a big difference when i'm doing it on and off
and remember it's just on the drums here so let's just solo the drums
and i want to show you something that's pretty cool with this plugin too so
there's the drums soloed with it on sounds pretty good but if we wanted to really bring
some character in this we could use the noise setting here and just increase some of the noise
and this is going to create that classic tape sound that wasn't really wanted back then but
sometimes for lo-fi it can sound pretty good so let's play around with that
so that's pretty cool it adds a little more character there it's
not too over the top like you could go over the top of this
we'll leave it there again let's listen to it in the mix
yeah that's the drums in the mix now let's just try this out on the vocal track
so i'm going to solo this for now and then we'll put it into
the mix in a bit but i'm just going to look for a preset here i see vocal presence let's give that
a try see what it does and let's just start from a different part of the song right here
so i like it right away let's hear what it sounds like in the mix though
now one thing i want to try is just increasing this drive a bit and you
can see i have the auto gain on so if i increase the drive
it adjusts the output so your gain levels will stay the same even though you're increasing
the drive so i want to get these vocals a little hotter let's listen to this now
so you can hear it added a ton of character to that vocal and
it definitely warmed it up when i was increasing that drive there and it wasn't hard to do
this drive seems to be very sensitive so you could go pretty far with that so quickly let's look at
some of these controls as we saw there's the input drive sort of section here so we could really
drive that input and get some of that saturation in there and then you have your output also like i
showed you there's the auto gain button right here you can turn that on and off you have a mix slider
here so you can adjust how much of this effect you want on your track or bus the noise we already saw
that that adds that vintage tape noise that may or may not be wanted where is wow and flutter
so let's just see if we can test that out my song in a category mighty long time remember
so you can hear it sounds like a kind of worn out tape or maybe an old tape machine when you
really increase that wear then glue is like a compression
so the more you add the more compression you get the presence control can help to bring back
some brightness and sharpness to your track that can sometimes be lost when using tape saturation
and then you have the high shape and low shape and what these do
is when you increase these it adds more saturation to say the high or the low whatever you're using
or you could decrease it and add less saturation to the high or low and that's pretty much it
for the controls you also can change the color of the user interface with these little dots up here
i think i'm just going to leave it on that one for now and you can resize your user interface
here you have your presets up here there's actually quite a few presets in there so now
let's add this to our bass track in here so let's just find a preset for bass there's one
bass guitar grit sounds good to me even though this is a synth bass let's hear how it sounds
all right so i like that right there i'm going to put it into
the mix now and we'll hear it on and off in there
them
again it's subtle but it really helped to bring that bass out a bit which is kind of
lost in behind things and let's try it on our mix bus now so i have already got it loaded
up down there it was just disabled and here is our mix bus i'm going to change the color
so let's give it a listen on and off you can see i've used this
preset here called vintage master i'll try another one in a second but let's try this one out
so that one's pretty subtle right there but you can notice a difference so let's find another
setting here two bus magnetic energy let's try that one
so again it's very noticeable on the mix bus and of course you can adjust this to fit your mix
however you need to lots of things to adjust like the high shape and the low shape then your glue
and you can even add some noise or wear if you want to create that nice lo-fi kind of sound now
there's one more place i want to try this effect on and it's electric guitars and i don't have any
in this project so i'm going to load it up into another project alright so i've got it loaded up
onto a guitar track here i've got it soloed so we can just hear what it sounds like soloed and come
up with a decent sound and then we'll listen to it in the mix so let's just listen to this right now
so i'm just going to adjust some things here try this single and this is something i didn't
mention when i was going over the controls you have single mode here which makes it sound like
it's going through a single tape machine or you have dual mode and this emulates a
series of two tape machines together and puts half of the drive to each of them so
something interesting right there and also there's this hot and normal input so obviously this makes
it hotter that's normal so let's just mess around with these see what we come up with
so i really like that right there it really excites that guitar it's
going to help to bring it out in the mix so let's listen to it in the mix
let's just take this to the extreme and hear what it sounds like if we just crank this drive
you can hear that pretty extreme distortion on there so if you want
a tape saturation that can give you subtle tape harmonics or all-out dirty distortion
the baby audio TAIP plugin might be the one for you now if you want to check out another
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