Softube Dirty Tape is an extremely easy plugin to use and it features Softube's
incredible tape emulation sounds plus it can create some modulation and width types
of effects which i'm going to show you in just a bit now the introductory price for this is free
until January 31st, 2022 so hopefully you pick it up during that time and
even if you don't get it during that time it's still an excellent plugin
to have in your arsenal it's available on Mac or Windows now let's check it out first on an
e-piano track so here's the e-piano with the Dirty Tape bypass just so you can hear the clean sound
all right so that's bypass now let's add Dirty Tape
so you can hear it really thickens up that sound and adds that nice sort of dirty tape sound to it
you can see we have two main controls here and that's drive or dirt and drive controls the input
gain so the more drive you have the more tape distortion you're adding to your track and dirt
controls the wow flutter dropouts and crosstalk levels and dirt will also add some color based on
tape degradation from lower tape speeds so if you turn dirt all the way to the right which is full
this will give you the sound of a tape machine running at a low
tape speed now if you turn it all the way to the left which is the most minimum amount you can add
it's going to give you the sound of a higher tape speed with less dirt and now another one of the
more important controls on here is stereo which will get a little more into in just a bit but
right now i want to check this out on a bass guitar track so we'll start with it bypassed
all right it's a clean bass sound now let's enable it
all right so that dirties up our base very nice so it's going to have some more character in
our mix and i typically like my bass guitars to have a little dirt or saturation on them
so this plugin fits in very nice now I'm going to get to that stereo control and some of those
movement effects that we can create but first i just want to check this out quickly on
my drums all right so we're going to start with it bypassed again
so it is kind of a little dirty to begin with this is a more lo-fi
drum instrument now let's add some dirty tape and dirty it up even more
all right not bad right there now where i'm going to show you the movement and the stereo effect
is on our mix bus or our master track here so let's just listen to it bypass to begin with and
remember it is on every single track in this song already but it's just bypassed on the master track
all right now let's enable this
and we're going to start to create some of that movement so what i want to do here is
put drive all the way to zero so there's no drive on there and i'm going to put dirt all the way up
this is kind of going to create some movement in there so listen back and you'll hear what i mean
now that's really extreme of course we can dial it back a bit
i'm going to keep it at extreme just for this example and then we're going to
use this stereo mode and we're going to change it to
decoupled and what this does is it sort of splits the signal left and right so it's going to
add the effect to the left and right but it's going to be different on both sides creating a
more wider sound and some more movement types of sound so let's check that out
it really is excellent for lofi sounds now check out five ways you can use tape
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