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Most professional music production and recording is now done digitally, but a lot of producers still enjoy using older analog devices because of how warm the sound from a magnetic tape is. For that reason, many innovative plugins have stepped fourth to provide you with quality plugins that effortlessly recreate that nice vintage tape saturation while allowing you to have perfect control over it. Here are our best picks of tape saturation plugins: The best thing about an analog tape machine is the sound that it produces – warm and deep, it has its own texture. Slate Digital is on this list today because it has brilliantly attempted to digitally recreate that depth and warmth. The result is the Virtual Tape Machines (VTM), a live, honest-to-God replication of tape recording. There is no static modeling, and it is the purest, most advanced emulation of analog tape that has ever been achieved. It comprises of two machine types: 2 inch 16 track from NRG Recording, and a ½ inch 2 track machine from Howie Weinberg Mastering.
All the VTM’s key controls are on the main plugin window. Users can also choose between two tape speeds (15 or 30 ips), two tape types (Ampex 456 or Quantegy GP9) and a pair of input and output gain controls. Some more of its exciting features include noise reduction control and auto mute, with the brilliant Wow & Flutter, and Bass alignment controls. It offers the ability to calibrate levels and has three Bias settings (Normal, Low and High, whichever is preferred).