Kiive Audio Tape Face has nice tape compression, glue and saturation.
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very interested in this one, but the price
I have never heard a tape emulation which did the same to my audio as my Revox B77MKII, running at 15IPS, into AGFA PEM 468, does. Having said that UAD tape emus have their uses at times for rounding out digital sounds. Haven’t really been looking for new tape emu plugins anymore after having sourced a real R2R though…
If you want the sound of magnetic tape, get a tapedeck… or even a C-cassette deck. But if you just want stuff that does cool things to sound, sure, try out them tape emus.
There is this “search for authenticity” thing going on in 2020s that is willing to go to ludicrous lenghts just to avoid doing the OG thing in the first place. Why? If you want Atari ST MIDI timing, buy an Atari ST. If you want Amiga tracker sound that bad, buy an Amiga. Otherwise, there will always be a better, more accurate emulation that will keep on changing year after year… And after all is said and done, you will have bought the same thing a hundred times…
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only if we’re lucky 
I have tape machines, but I love what software developers are trying to do, software that doesn’t try and reach for something is unappealing to me… but as long as I just want but don’t need there’s no way I’d spend that amount on it
The tape mode in Reason’s Scream 4 device.
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I think UA makes the best traditional effects plugins. No reason not to have Spark.
Just inherited my Dad’s Revox A77 MKII. I got it setup 30 minutes ago. I’m an absolute neophyte with R2R though. It plays but the sound was muffled on the left channel. Unsure if it is a poor recording or not. Going to try recording from known source material tomorrow.