Deco

Vintage tape machine plugin with saturation and doubletracking

Tape machines were the first equipment employed in the recording studio as effect processors, despite the fact that modern recording engineers and producers are accustomed to the vast array of effects alternatives accessible today. If these recording decks weren't used in this fashion, the entire early history of music would sound entirely different, from echo and flanging to the warmth and saturation of the actual tape itself.

The Deco plugin is special in that it revives the lost art of how these decks were manipulated as a studio process in addition to providing you with the hyper-real aural signature of these vintage tape recorders.

Even though there are currently a number of plugins that emulate entire tape machines down to the smallest degree, the Deco plugin stands alone as the only piece of software that accurately recreates the studio workflow of two tape decks working in tandem. It is the timed/speed relationship between these two decks that creates the phasing, true tape flanging, chorus, echo and double tracking effects that the Sun Studios and Abbey Roads of the world relied on for all of those famous early tracks, and it’s now available in an easy-to-use and utterly convincing plugin.

Two-In-One Wonder

Deco is not just one effect, but two distinct sides combined to create a studio workflow.

• Doubletracker: The Doubletracker side controls the two interactive tape decks and has the power to shift your sound in many different ways, easily achieving psychedelic tape flanging, gorgeous tape chorusing, syrupy slapback tape echoes and anything in between, all by varying the timing relationship between the Reference and Lag decks. If that’s not “old school” we’re not sure what is!

• Tape Saturation: The Tape Saturation side smooths out the response of your tracks with familiar tape compression and saturation, while fattening things up with subtle (or NOT subtle!) tapedriven transparent overdrive.

Unlike the hardware of years gone by, the Deco Plugin lets you unleash your creativity without any physical limitations. Use it with any instrument you can think of, insert it anywhere in your signal chain, automate all the controls to your heart’s content — the possibilities are endless.