Test Driving the True Tape
Posted on | January 23, 2010 | No Comments
I’ve had a chance to use the Neve True Tape on a few projects, as well some test files of a drum kit stem. One thing I noticed is that — at unity — there’s a lot of LF roll-off. I realized, as with a tape machine, the key is in driving it hard enough to get a fuller low end but not to the point of saturation.
The following screen shots were taken of pink noise as represented by Voxengo’s SPAN real-time FFT spectrum analyzer.
The first is the pink noise on its own and the second is the pink noise through the True Tape. I adjusted the tape drive (saturation) until the meters were just moving from green to orange, which seems to be the sweet spot for a bit more LF content, the 300Hz bump, and HF drop-off from 15-20kHz. This is @ 15ips, of course.
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