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Digidesign Reel Tape Saturation

Tape saturation plugin (Digidesign/Avid Reel Tape Suite). Software model of analogue tape machines and tape formulations, with tape speed, drive, bias and noise controls.

Source, read 15 Nov 2026

Records it appears on · 1

  • Little Lion Man

    Mumford & Sons · Sigh No More, 2009

    • Lead vocal · Mix effectsReportedPlug-in on a tape send fed by the lead vocal, which he recalls driving fairly hard for crunch, body and a little grit.Settings: Simulated tape speed set to 7.5 ips, driven quite hard (stated as how he would have set it)

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No plugin suggested. This is itself a plugin, Avid's Reel Tape Saturation, so the record used the software rather than hardware.

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