If you know your recording history you ll appreciate the significance of this particular unit which recorded many a classic record including the beatles seminal sgt pepper.
Waves abbey road vinyl vs j37.
Both plugins have unique talents but to summarize when you want to get dirty and give either individual tracks or masters some true grit the master tape excels.
Give your music the vintage warmth of vinyl records played on classic turntables and needles.
Abbey road j37 faithfully recreates the.
It s the modeling of a four track j37 tape recorder manufactured by swiss company studer.
Waves j37 vs real tape recorder.
The waves abbey road j37 tape emulation plugin brings stunning analog warmth to your digital recordings delivering a level of hardware realism never before experienced in the box 1 3 about the j37 the original j37 was a one inch 4 track recorder designed by swiss recording pioneer will studer.
This multitrack recorder was used in the famous studios during the second half of the 60s and the early 70s.
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In the 60s their highly modified collection of analog gear both tube and transistor lent its distinctive character to recordings from the beatles and pink floyd continuing all the way to the top artists of the present day.
Abbey road j37 tape saturation plugin modeled on the machine used to record many of the greatest masterpieces in modern music brings analog warmth to digital recordings.
Waves and abbey road studios present the j37 tape saturation plugin a precision model of the very machine used to record many of the greatest masterpieces in modern music.
Waves latest is unique in the fact that it emulates the first ever studer multitrack tape machine built for and subsequently modified by abbey road studios in 1965.
A precise model of abbey road studios vinyl cutting and.
With a variety of user adjustable controls including tape speed bias noise saturation wow and flutter the waves.
It made a nice difference in the sound putting it in a place and sounding less like a dry solo instrument that wasn t a part of the underlying orchestral recording.
As most people know abbey road is one of the premiere music recording and mastering facilities in the world.
I did this mainly out of curiosity since i didn t know how the j37 sounded.
The j37 tape is once again a fruit of the collaboration between waves and abbey road studios.
If sophistication is more your style particularly for mastering the j37 provides more flavors and more options in a somewhat more polite package.