DCZX wrote:
Does anyone know what plugins/techniques could I use to record something in Ardour that sounds like it was recorded on 70's vintage tube/tape equipment?
a technique i like to use is to get hold of some actual vintage gear and use it during mixing.
i once did an organ trio recording where the organ was an overly clean digital keyboard. we solved the problem by piping the sound through an old polytone guitar amp in "british" setting which was re-recorded with a large-diaphragm condensor mike in my bathroom.
i've also had great results with an old and really crappy power mixer with a spring reverb - i patched it into an aux send in ardour and had very controllable vintage reverb, without having to touch the pots on that old junkpile (it had taken a while to find a pot position that did not crackle or produce dropouts...).
if you don't need "hi-fi" and are looking for a distinctly analog sound, dump your mixdown to analog tape (reel-to-reels will retain a very high sound quality, but even a cassette deck will do if you can live with a bit of noise and reduced stereo separation). don't use cheap noise reduction, though. get a iron oxide tape and drive it hard, the more level, the more tape saturation.
as to "tubey" effects, iirc there are some in the CAPS collection of ladspa plugins: http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html i've played with some, and they are cool, though maybe not exactly what you might expect...
regards, jörn
