VST four-track emulation?

April 20, 2008 4:05 AM

Are there any VST plugins that emulate the lo-fi tone of four track recorders?

I'm looking for a plug-in that'll give my dgital tracks a GBV/Eric's Trip-styled makeover. The lofi plugins I've found rely on undersampling and seemed to be targeted towards electronic music producers. The tape saturation plugins I've come across are warm but not nearly crunchy enough. Is there anything out there that models the characteristics of low end analog recording equipment?

posted by bunnytricks to technology (4 comments total)

I bet you could play with channeling tracks through NI GuitarRig 2 or IK Amplitube 2 and tweaking all of the settings until you get Guided By Voices-like sounds.
posted by umbú at 4:31 AM on April 20, 2008

iZotope's Trash is awesome for any kind of low-fi work. It's not cheap, but it's amazing in its scope and definitely worth a look...
posted by benzo8 at 5:37 AM on April 20, 2008

You're looking for a tape saturation plugin. Good discussion here. Or try a compressor to thicken things up followed by a high-pass filter to attenuate frequencies above about 12-15KHz.
posted by unSane at 5:57 AM on April 20, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'd use a compressor to add in the desired crunchiness by juicing up the gain before throwing that to the tape-sat. Maybe both of these could be found in one plugin with the judicious use of 60s style fuzzbox VSTs.
posted by rhizome at 11:44 AM on April 20, 2008