Steven Massey of Massey Plugins has released TapeHead Medium, a new free Audio Unit plug-in for Mac OS X.

TapeHead Medium is a saturation plug-in which uses an algorithm that is sonically identical to the Tape-Head Pro Tools plugin set to the "middle" tone position. Make your drums fuller and louder, add some grit to vocals, ...

Notes:

• The generic Audio Units view is used -- no graphical interface.
• The algorithm is sonically identical to the Pro Tools plugin set to the "middle" tone position.
• Like the Pro Tools versions, the input and output signals are limited to 0.0 dB maximum.
• Only mono and stereo I/O configurations are supported.