Comment by speedgoose
20 hours ago
In my opinion, nothing is quite the same as real analog cassette sounds. It's nice to play around and prototype, but if you really want a good cassette sound effect, you have to use real hardware, for now.
20 hours ago
In my opinion, nothing is quite the same as real analog cassette sounds. It's nice to play around and prototype, but if you really want a good cassette sound effect, you have to use real hardware, for now.
My pioneer tape deck has a high end DSP that spanks dolby and removes tape noise and I love the sound it produces.
There's a number of VST plugins that get very close - much closer than a static set of filters every possibly could. This is just an approximation.
"very" close is subjective. In my opinion it is nowhere near running audio through real tape. The computation capability needed to fully simulate tape in real time is not there yet. To model all subtle interactions, phase etc you'd need to run audio in 10-100+ MHz range.
TAAS ?
Tape as a service ? Upload your music and get it recorded to cassette and re uploaded to you ?
It’s all a moot point most of the time since it’s going to be compressed to crap by Bluetooth codecs before reaching most ears.
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what is the appeal of cassette sound effects / analog cassette sounds? is it nostalgia?
Nostalgia for sure, but it also makes the sound less perfect in a way that can be interesting musically. It adds harmonics, slightly detune everything, compresses, adds noise.
It's a good tool to make a sound that sound very artificial, sharp, perfect, into something more soft and perhaps interesting to some.
Ie they sounded like crap. Those of us old enough to live through the tail end of cassettes loathed them. Just like records before tape, every time you played them they sounded a little worse than the last time. And you rolled the dice on whether your player would eat the cassette. CDs were like magic. Nobody should look back.
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