Tape SIm Trick + Bugs

[Bluemoa]

Ok so i made a bus strip with tape delay followed by the compressor with the tape compression setting. I turn the tape delay settings to 0 and dry 0 with wet 100% and 0ms unsynced timing. Only problem is that after changing various options and restarting the project after saving it reverts the timing of the tape delay to the project's tempo. Pretty lame. Try it for yourselves, im not really good at explaining it.

[David Nahmani]

I verified that you can't "save" a delay length of 0ms. For some reason, 0.1ms seems fine though.

[Bluemoa]

I verified that you can't "save" a delay length of 0ms. For some reason, 0.1ms seems fine though.

Right on man, thanks for helping me out tonight. I wonder if the tape tone is actually somewhat comparable to the real thing

[David Nahmani]

I wouldn't bother with the fluttering of Tape Delay (my guess is that's what you're trying to do with a 0ms delay setting). But I love the "Analog Tape" setting on Logic's compressor. It's often my starting point for compression on the master bus.

[Bluemoa]

I wouldn't bother with the fluttering of Tape Delay (my guess is that's what you're trying to do with a 0ms delay setting). But I love the "Analog Tape" setting on Logic's compressor. It's often my starting point for compression on the master bus.

I messed with the flutter a bit, i havent found a setting where it can actually notice it without it being too noticeable. i just cut the low end of the tape delay bandwidth around 400hz and use it to color the mid to highs and add a bit of punch feeling in the low mid.

[David Nahmani]

Is that on the master bus? Cutting all low frequencies below 400Hz on the master bus? If it is that sounds way too drastic.

 

If it isn't, I wouldn't mix a fluttering signal with the original signal, especially on a whole mix.

[Bluemoa]

Is that on the master bus? Cutting all low frequencies below 400Hz on the master bus? If it is that sounds way too drastic.

 

If it isn't, I wouldn't mix a fluttering signal with the original signal, especially on a whole mix.

Oh, no, i just made an Aux bus and do a prefader send of whatever tracks i want to it. And correction, i cut at 310hz, makes kicks really punchy