https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/tapewave/
Looks nice, might give it a spin. Intro price and xtra discount bring it into the affordable.
https://youtu.be/29AlVca7Fi8?si=wPFh43mQur8KAO_6
Wave Alchemy Tapewave
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- KVRian
- 1039 posts since 8 Mar, 2009
Well, based on the demos on their site, i vastly prefer the audio when its bypassed 
. doesn't sound much like tape, and more like some combo of soft sat and compression with added wobblediness
. doesn't sound much like tape, and more like some combo of soft sat and compression with added wobbledinessI
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- KVRAF
- 3204 posts since 26 Mar, 2002 from london
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- Suspended
- 24193 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
Holy crap, that sound bad! 
In all likelyhood however they just dramatically overdid it in the examples and it's possible to dial it in a lot more tastefully.
(To be fair it sounds like a monkey (or was it perhaps the devs three-years old?) played with the controls until they arbitrarily stopped it and then used whatever it came up with on some source they randomly pulled out of a hat.)
edit: typos
In all likelyhood however they just dramatically overdid it in the examples and it's possible to dial it in a lot more tastefully.
(To be fair it sounds like a monkey (or was it perhaps the devs three-years old?) played with the controls until they arbitrarily stopped it and then used whatever it came up with on some source they randomly pulled out of a hat.
)edit: typos
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5007 posts since 15 Feb, 2020
Agreed many of the sound demos are OTT on the effect front. Dial it back a bit!
Edit: after actually demoing I bought it. Sounds great, super easy to find usable sounds.
Edit: after actually demoing I bought it. Sounds great, super easy to find usable sounds.
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I lost my heart in Cap de Creus
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- KVRian
- 1013 posts since 11 Jun, 2020 from Woop Woop
And there's literally no dry / wet mix knob to do it!
Even with all dials at 0, it still sounds overdone. I think Aberrant DSP's SketchCassette or Arturia's Mello-Fi are still better options than this one. More control over the sound and Tapewave doesn't seem to offer anything different, especially compared to SketchCassette.
"Like toilet paper, we're on a roll."
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- Suspended
- 24193 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
Since when do tape-emulations have a dry-wet control?
You dial it back using both the wow and the flutter depth and the age, drive, comp and drift control.
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- KVRian
- 1013 posts since 11 Jun, 2020 from Woop Woop
Dial everything back to 0 on this Wave Alchemy one and you still get the tape 'style' processing because there's no mix knob and you can't deactivate it.
SketchCassette has a dry / wet control for the tape 'style' section. As well as being able to bypass it completely.
The other one I use too, OCS-45 by Spectral, has a global dry / wet control for all of the settings. Including wow & flutter. Which, allows for more tasteful results and less like a monkey or a 3 year old. Which, I thought you were after?
"Like toilet paper, we're on a roll."
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- KVRian
- 527 posts since 8 Mar, 2007
I really like it. I think it has a lot of creative potential.
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- Suspended
- 24193 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
No, I tired it now and "Studio" can be really subtle - in fact "is this thing even on" kind of subtle.
With the six different modes/styles and the various controls this one has a huge range -
and it offers quite a variety of really useful colours indeed.
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- KVRAF
- 8273 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
Why would I want my music to sound like it's recorded on cassette though? I genuinely don't get it...cassettes were mostly fkn awful. I used to have access to a studio Nakamichi back in the day and that sounded pretty good, but only because it sounded like it was recorded on something better than cassette and didn't actually sound like cassette 
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