Also, if there was a "year of Tape emulations," I TOTALLY missed out on it. To the point that I didn't even know that there was a year of tape emulations. To be fair, the last few years were pretty chaotic, so I may not have been tracking all of the developments in the plugin world that closely.valhallasound wrote:That was pretty much my plan after college. Except instead of a canary yellow 1977 Accord, it was going to be an early 80s Datsun truck. Me and my friend were going to drive up and down the coast, eat deli sandwiches, and talk about the deli sandwiches.dangayle wrote:Nah, I figured it out.
Valhalla missed out on the year of Tape emulations and Sean is feeling sad and lonely and confused, went out and bought a canary yellow 1977 Honda Accord with only an 8-track player in it and drove all around the Puget Sound wondering “what have I done with my life, I missed my big chance to release a tape emulation and now everyone is going to think I’m a bandwagoner if I do that, and anyway, I missed my chance.”
So the truth is, he’s selling the business and going into the banana stand business. There’s always money in the banana stand.
The tape emulations I have heard are all really polite. Probably because they are emulating Studers, or Revoxes, or something nice. Very different than some 8-track tape made into a loop, popped into an RE-201, and played for several hundred hours straight.
The tape in all of my tape echoes is NASTY, to the point where I wonder if they are typical of how these sound. Every other tape echo I have heard is pretty nasty as well. It took several years for me to track down an RE-201 in decent shape. Several of the 201s that I have seen were working on the edge of stability, and would stick on a certain part of the tape, shutting everything down.