Cassette Deck 2
The second in the series! For Nebula.
Product Description
The ADS C3 cassette deck can play at the standard 1 7/8 IPS, but also at 3 3/4. The double speed mode increases performance factors, including: noise floor, wow and flutter, and high frequency reproduction. At single speed the deck already performs very well, but the double speed mode allows this deck to provide what is among the best quality to be had from cassette. It even approaches the reel format, with the noise floor and wow/flutter being the only specs really holding it back (while still being very good for cassette). Lucky for us, those faults don’t exist in the Nebula programs!
Many tapes were used, with some of each type (I, II, III, and IV), and of various qualities. Most were sampled twice, usually with the first time being done in a way to get the best representation of that tape with this deck, and the second time to produce a ‘less perfect’ result. Double and single speed modes were used. Dolby B and C were used, but in some cases neither. The deck requires the user to manually select the EQ mode for the type of tape being used, and in some cases the ‘wrong’ type was intentionally selected, to get different tonal results. This set has a large variety of sounds. Altogether there are 31 unique effects!
Some of these effects are fairly flat across the frequency spectrum, extending beyond 20khz, and down below 20hz! Those can be used as you would use a reel to reel program, for a subtle tape effect. Others have an upwards incline in the high end, making them fairly bright. Those can be used as enhancers. The high-end boost and the added tape saturation can be very useful for making something seem louder (and more defined) than it really is. Then you have others which smoothly filter highs or mids in various ways. This is another extensive set with lots of variety!
Last but not least, this library comes with excellent custom skins by Max Ponomaryov, aka azzimov! (Check out his facebook group here) There are skins for both N3 and N4. Check out the product images to see them!
Here’s a video by Max, showing off his skin (N3 version allowing program select from skin- N4 version doesn’t allow this), as well as every program/tape effect in the library. Check out the video, and be sure to also check out my examples under the ‘Audio Demos’ tab, which show several different types of material being processed.
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This is a rock mix, with the whole mix going through one tape effect. First you hear it dry, then it begins switching through most of the effects from the set.
Mandolin, very busy, by itself.
A sort of teky drum with bass kind of thing. Check this to see how things made totally 'in the box' can be given a subtle analog tape flavor.
This mix is a bit dark, so mostly I tried to show how many of these effects can 'enhance' stuff by adding harmonics/boosting the high end a bit. Some of the effects actually make it darker/bigger, though.
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