12/20/2023 0 Comments T racks 5 bundle![]() My 2.2GHz i7 was happy enough, albeit with only a few instances.Anyone use IK Multimedia's T-Racks plugins to mix and master their music?īasically, over a period of time, I have collected a lot of T-Racks plugins, some I bought some I got for free. The CPU load with any plugin of this kind can be heavy, so to use T-RackS Tape Machine Collection across many tracks will require a more recent processor and/or track freezing to keep things rolling nicely. ![]() This was to demonstrate the kind of harmonic enrichment you can enjoy if you dare to use the kind of settings that would have the designers up in arms…įor authenticity, I had the T-RackS Tape Machine plugin first in my processing chain so that it could run “into” any further processing to simulate a proper mixdown. I opted for the 250 formula tape on both machines which has the lowest headroom of the four available options. I went with tradition and opted for the multitrack Studer A80 MkII on channels with the stereo Ampex 440B across the mix. The collection comes with four tape formulations, two multitrack machines for tracking and mixing, as well as two stereo machines for mixing down to, but of course the beauty is you can use whichever you want on whatever you like. That said, to demonstrate the effect, you can hear for yourself In the video how T-RackS Tape Machine Collection sounds when pushed quite hard. The effect with moderate “real world” settings should only ever be very subtle after all, engineers spent decades very nearly succeeding in getting tape systems’ performance to be near-perfect. So what does real tape do to the sound? I would describe it as slightly smearing transients and adding some extra harmonic interest that lends a pleasing density to sounds. Enter the T-RackS Tape Machine Collection… Using T-RackS Tape Machine Collection Although DAWs take away a lot of the expense and maintenance of having to run on tape, for some its sound is just hard to beat. ![]() Why Tape Machines?įor most of the last century, analogue recording and playback was the only technology available, and as a result many of us associate the “tape sound” either with a lot of the music that we choose to listen to, or with recorded sound itself. Can IK Multimedia’s T-RackS Tape Machine Collection solve sterility and give us the elixir of analogue? Luke Goddard takes it for a spin to find out. High quality tape emulations promise the mojo that we miss, or maybe the sound we want to discover. ![]()
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