ToneBoosters Releases TB ReelBus Analog Tape Sim Plugin
With all of the analog tape sim plugins available today, one may wonder which one to go with. Of course this is dependent on specific needs and desires from person to person, but a common consensus will always be the price and quality. ToneBoosters was founded in 2010 with the simple goal to develop high quality plugins at a minimal price and judging from customer feedback, ToneBoosters seems to have satisfied that goal with TB ReelBus. What do our readers think?
ToneBoosters' TB ReelBus.
TB ReelBus is available now as a demo version (parameter saving disabled) or for the low low price of approximately $13 (10 Euros) for Mac or PC – VST only. Read on for details from ToneBoosters:
“Analog tape simulation plugin carefully modeled after legendary Japanese and Swiss reel-to-reel recorders.
Description
TB ReelBus is an analog tape recording simulator that aims at accurate simulation of all properties related to tape, including its frequency and level dependent saturation, inter-modulation effects, bias dependencies, tape hiss, asperity noise, wow and flutter, and clipping of electronic circuitry. It is especially suitable for bus processing (including the master bus) to subtly sweeten and enhance the sound.
TB ReelBus currently contains 7 preset recorder simulations, which can be adjusted individually by offsetting the tape hiss, asperity noise, amount of spectrum and saturation processing, and alike.
More information on the development process of TB ReelBus can be found in 3 consecutive blog pages here, here, and here.
Features
- Very low-latency processing (only 4 samples delay) as a result of analog design
- Support of all sampling rates from 44.1 up to 192 kHz
- Adjustable record level with auto level makeup option
- Accurate simulation of existing reel-to-reel recorders with different tape speeds
- Adjustable tape hiss and asperity noise levels
- Adjustable tape spectrum and tape saturation
- Adjustable wow and flutter strength
- Option to amplify bias strength for overbiasing
- Simulation of both tape saturation as well as analog circuitry clipping
- Calibrated analog VU meters
- Each and every processing element carefully modeled after analog circuits and filters
- Based on the VST 2.4 specification to allow compatibility with virtually all host programs”
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