Bad Tape 2 by Denise Audio

Unlock the Ultimate Tape Emulation Experience with Denise Audio Bad Tape 2

Step into the world of authentic lo-fi sound and unparalleled creative control with Denise Audio Bad Tape 2, the fully featured successor to our beloved Bad Tape plugin. Bad Tape 2 goes beyond your average tape enhancement, offering an incomparable degree of control over tape emulation parameters, allowing producers to delicately bend space and time or absolutely demolish their audio.

Key Features That Redefine Tape Emulation:

• Unrivaled Control: Take complete mastery over the behavior of tape imperfections, shaping your sound exactly the way you envision it.
• New Creative Effects: Explore four exciting new effects: Phaser, Doubler, Resonator, and Magnet. These additions open up even more possibilities for modulation, stretching, distortion, and exciting your productions. The Doubler emulates an Automatic Double Tracking (ADT) system for a fuller sound. The Magnet effect allows you to emulate a progressively demagnetized tape. The Resonator slowly emulates a series of six acoustic resonators. The Phaser lets you dial in intensity, frequency, feedback, attraction, LFO rate and depth, and width.
• Push-Pull Graph Technology: Inherited from our acclaimed God Mode, Dragon Fire, and Bite Harder plugins, the innovative Push-Pull graph gives you complete control over what frequencies get saturated and what parts of the spectrum remain untouched. Use automation to create dynamic distortion or steep curves for screaming resonances. The PULL feature allows you to pull back frequencies after saturation.
• Versatile Saturation: The Saturation effect brings warm, vintage character to your tracks, buses, and mixes. Oversampling options ensure a perfect representation of imperfection.
• Dynamic Detune Effects: Slow down and speed up your “tape” in real time, mimicking the iconic effect of stopping and starting a reel-to-reel machine with the Detune feature. Control Stop Time, Recover Time, and Rewind Time, with options to sync to your DAW's BPM or work completely off-grid. The Freeze option sustains the pitch shift, while Tape Stop halts recovery until disabled.
• Expressive Modulation: Add modulation and jitter with Wow and Shake to create unique bad vibes. Control their rate with the Speed slider.
• Texture and Noise: Dust your tracks with subtle artifacts reminiscent of failing tape or go all-in with over-the-top degradation using Harm. Introduce the characteristic sounds of a mechanical reel-to-reel tape player with Squeal and Hiss, from subtle retro warmth to intense racket.
• Tonal Shaping: Use the Color setting to change the tone and feel of your tracks, from fuzzed-out mids to crystalline highs.
• Creative Sidechaining: The powerful sidechain allows you to trigger Bad Tape 2’s effects via an external audio source. Make a kick drum detune your synth bass, use a vocal to slow down guitars, or turn Hiss and Harm into a polyrhythmic glitchfest. Individually set the impact of the sidechain on each parameter for endless creative possibilities. Control sidechain gain, attack/release, and apply HPF/LPF.
• Precise Gain Staging: Control the input and output levels with dedicated Input and Output controls.
• Mix Control: Smoothly blend the different Bad Tape 2 effects with the Mix knob for subtle enhancements or extreme transformations.

What The Pros Are Saying:

• Tigerlight (Vocalist/DJ/Producer): “When I'm producing, I love what the color dial on the Bad Tape can do for enhancing vocals. I also like dialing in other effects like a little bit of saturation to add warmth and depth.”
• Music Tech: "Bad Tape from Denise Audio may seem fairly innocent upon first glance... Make no mistake, though, this little plug-in can be seriously destructive." "Bad Tape 2 is an ingenious plug-in that does much more than your average tape enhancement."
• Skyler Gibbons (Engineer/Producer for Justin Rarri, Aha Gazelle, Curly J, Twista): "Since I discovered the Bad Tape 2, I used it on every Synth that I play. I especially happen to like the Wow effect and the Tapestop. Love that thing!"

Perfect for:

• Adding vintage warmth and character to any track.
• Creating unique lo-fi textures and soundscapes.
• Experimenting with creative distortion and saturation.
• Generating interesting modulation and time-based effects.
• Utilizing sidechaining for dynamic and rhythmic manipulation.

Technical Specifications:

• Windows: Windows 10 or newer (64-bit)
• Mac: macOS 10.11 or newer (64-bit) including native Apple Silicon
• Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX (64-bit only)

Don't settle for ordinary. Shape your sound with the extraordinary control and creative possibilities of Denise Audio Bad Tape 2.