KVR Audio

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:43 pm

spacedad wrote:yummy hiss, though i fear it may be a bit too 'high quality' hiss for my tastes.

High quality?!!
Don't tempt me to post my 96khz 24bit hi-end tape hiss here.

Few of the all time great home studio slogans:

"24bits: makes my hiss sound better"

or

"24bits: more headroom for my hiss"

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:50 pm

i like my hiss low n dirty,thanks.

btw it is an i.r. isn't it?(cos it sounds like ground hum on it's own.)

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:57 pm

spacedad wrote:i like my hiss low n dirty,thanks.

btw it is an i.r. isn't it?(cos it sounds like ground hum on it's own.)

huh?

of course it's not an IR. You're in for a surprise: real analog equipment hums! (doh!)

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:03 pm

i see,thanks.

you probably shouldn't be seen talkin' to the likes o' me.

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:06 pm

cool,even better,it comes with free hum!

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:09 pm

Kingston wrote:What I've got here is authentic Studer B67 hiss.

http://www.michaelkingston.fi/files/studer_B67_hiss.wav

Yea, it's totally useless, but there ya have it. Hats off to anyone who finds this useful.

I suppose I should also post an example of the type of saturation the unit produces, but all that would achieve is make all the people who love the current crop of tape plugins (ie. waveshapers) cry.

i say post those example because the last crop didn't hit the target from vst to tdm hedd only gets you 45% of the way

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:12 pm

wsaidah wrote:the last crop didn't hit the target from vst to tdm hedd only gets you 45% of the way

I completely agree. Even the new neve portico fails because it doesn't attempt to emulate the *media*, but only the process surrounding it (namely the tape heads). It's the media itself that makes the sound interesting, the imperfections in it. Think watercolors.

Tape Effect