Re: Small Dwarfcraft
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:35 pm
Want the big jim.
must see the big jim.
must see the big jim.
Toonster wrote:Tape overdrive, I am curious how that will sound!
...IDK, the tone is probably going to have some of that wonderful Dwarfcraft magic to it, making it sound so RAWRK!
Does that answer Your question? No? But... just in case the tape distortion is all new concept to You, jump to the old discussion for reference:
viewtopic.php?f=149&t=10613
By tape overdrive, I guess we're really meaning the slight distortion in delay sound, typical to tape delay. Beyond that point, it can get pretty awful, too. Knowing Aen, it might be that he's putting the effect to good use.
Real tape saturation and tube saturation sound (at first) soft and natural, like one might imagine, caused by the tape gradually loosing the natural characteristics of the sound as the tape quality degrades. Rich, saturated, and round mids, wonderful booming low end and a rather lo-fi treble hiss that sooner than later fades out totally inaudible. If You buy a VST plugin that's supposed to give You tape saturation/distortion, this is close what You end up with. The amount and quality of the tape saturation sound is dependent on how old the tape is, and also on the actual analog tape material quality
The effect is not only wanted in delay sounds. At it's softest it's commonly used in place of tube EQ to give some additional love to the digital recordings, as the digital technology can produce less ear-pleasing trebles. Actually, too much of them, in just the wrong frequencies. The analog tape fixes that by it's nature, coming out still reasonably high fidelity for the most. If used that way.
Beyond the soft saturated sounds, tape distortion can be used onstage, too, and I've heard (though only once) a tape recorder based distortion used as a replacement for an overdrive /driven amp sound, in the master channel. Produced a lo-fi, grainy, slow rolling round-saw stuck up Your ass sorta sound. Something many sound engineer would still refuse to release before removing their name from the credits.
