On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:40:00AM +0000, Daniel James wrote: > > > Although this can be an effect in its own right - last week we > > > were trying out LADSPA Tape Delay, trying to get the sound of a > > > Watkins Copicat (explanatory picture follows for the > > > post-analogue generation): > > > > Did you manage to faithfully reproduce that warm muffled warble of > > worn tape? > > Not really - digital is a bit too clean. You could fake it with a > second plugin after the tape delay though - maybe a valve effect, an > oscillator, some EQ... There are actually some internal problems when you slow the "tape" down too far - you get some digital aliasing. Should be fixed, but these things take time. If people submit sound-quality bug reports those things get moved up my todo list, and there are things on my todo list that have been there for a year or more, so dont hold your breath :( > > I find some of the names of the plugins a bit obscure, not being a > > techie or sound engineer as such, I mean "Barry's Satan Maximizer" > > sounds great, but what does it DO? > > Try it - you'll see it's a very good name for that plugin... Yeah. Its not exactly useful for many people, but there are a handful of people who really wanted it :) Sadly the documentation for it (http://plugin.org.uk/ladspa-swh/docs/ladspa-swh.html#id1408) is full of typos, but homefully you can make out what I meant. - Steve
