Ampex® ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder
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Ampex® ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder
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B. Krueger
Great for adding tape sheen to masters
I am still learning this plug in, but just turning it on adds depth and tape feel to tracks on the mastering bus. It is the best tape emulation I have heard.
J. Burman
Excelent product!
I love Ampex and the sound that it delivers,perfect for the stereo sub.
It bringes that analog final touch to your mix!
J. Elliott
Real deal
I slap this bad boy on everything. Prefer the tone overall to the Studer but ears are subjective. Get saturated y'all.
j. fontanez
el mejor tape machine
The beast in the mastering and mixing
Y. KUROKAWA
テープシミュ
wavesのテープシミュも持っていますが
アナログっぽい温かさはこちらが上かと
m. ferraro
great emulation
makes all the difference on the master fader
E. Buckley
The ATR-102 is THE Secret Sauce!
The ATR-102 brings all the elements in a mix together in a very nice way. Highly recommended.
E. Wilmot
Cozy
It feels like a warm night in a saturated paradise.
A. Lee
OK, so this is how it's done!
Trying to get a mix to sound as present as commercial mixes, especially pop mixes, seemed a work of voodoo to me....before I put this on my mixbus....15ips.....WOW
T. ZHAO
ATR-102
ATR-102, I can not mix without it!!
R. Calegari
Solo enciendelo...
Solo enciendelo y el calor llega a los tracks....amalgama mezclas y da vida a la digitalizacion. Un jugador importante a la hora de buscar ese toque analogo.
S. Albert
The "digital" solution
A must-have, if you're going full digital. With that amazing piece on your mix, you can actually skip analog summing. One of the finest pieces of gear I've experienced in music production. Impossible to do without it since.
b. forbes
Lives on the 2-Buss
Wouldn't go anywhere without it. Gotta be on the 2_Buss... Also does beautiful subtle things with vocals and Guitars... You name it!
O. Søgard
MixMassager
This plugin is insane. You can massage your mix into anything you want! Great lowend, and great mastering presets!
C. Tenku
Top 3
This is the definitive and indispensable Tape Emu/Sat plugin and makes my Top 3 alongside UAD's Studer and Slate's VTM!
m. jackson
Use it a good amount, but not always....
Would give it five stars if I used it more often.....for whatever reason the Oxide sounds better to me on some mixes....not always, but enough to affect a review....
Can make piano jump out of a mix, though....awesome for that....
G. Jennings
Loving it
I come from the tape era, although I never had a great mastering machine. I always mastered to cassette and then later DAT. I'm now realizing how much a part of the puzzle a great mastering tape is. It definitely brings everything up a notch.
T. Schirmer
Magic tape or tape magic ;)
When picking my first custom bundle I was struggling with choices like anybody else I guess. I researched a lot and what always came up as a must-have plugin was the Ampex. Although considering that I already own two tape saturation plugin from different developers, I tested Ampex for quite a while against those two. It always won in direct comparison. The saturation and harmonic seem to have more depth and life, plus EQing, noise, flutter etc. are way more controllable through the various detail settings.
For most of my hip hop and electronic experimental songs I use it on the master bus, when I am looking for saturation and vibe from soft and subtle to extreme. For songs with a more modern, ultra-clean sound I might only use it for one specific track to add life to it.
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So good
for harsh, rough sounds it's perfect solution
R. Panossian
Its just a must for your final stage
Brings everything together in a very musical way, everything becomes a little bit more colourful and sweet, and louder at the same time without destroying the original.