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Elliott Smith. Bruce Springsteen. Iron & Wine. Daniel Johnston. Wu-Tang Clan. All these artists have at one point in their career, either by choice or necessity, made use of a 4-track cassette recorder to capture their music. There is a sound to these cassette recordings that people tend to refer to in vague, almost mystical terms, speaking of warmth, intimacy, even fragility

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SketchCassette is stimulated by 4-track cassette recorders, SketchCassette is designed to introduce a wide array of lo-fi tape effects into your mixes. From subtle warble to unearthed-from-the-attic destruction, SketchCassette is your one-stop-shop for anything and everything cheap tape.

SketchCassette Features:

  • Age modeling
  • Saturation
  • Highly adjustable wow & flutter
  • Dropouts
  • Tape hiss
  • Tape type frequency profiles
  • Noise-reduction encoding compression

Developed by Aberrant DSP with R&D assistance from J.R. Hyde and Kyle Ohlschlager

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