Eddie Kramer Master Tape Plug-In User Guide

many that will feel that any model is not complete without all the flaws as well. For that
reason, Waves has provided you a manual wow control on the plugin’s graphic interface.
It is defaulted to the wow and flutter modeled on the sample machine. You can increase
it for a somewhat more enhanced effect (although it would have never been too obvious
[unless your machine was broken] as it was always a subtlety of the analogue tape
process), or if you choose, you can move to a more idealized world and turn the wow off.
Having or not having wow and flutter and/or noise has nothing to do with the primary
advantages of the analogue tape recording sonics, so use them or not at your own
discretion. You will always have the advantages of the Kramer Master Tape sound with
or without them.
Something Extra
To sweeten the Kramer
Master Tape package, Waves also added a variable delay
control (0 ms-500 ms) th
at routes the tape playback of the plugin back to the input of the
Kramer Master Tape. This creates a very basic feedback tape delay effect across the
entire signal (the direct signal is always included in the mix). A low pass (LP) filter was
added to the delayed feedback path to allow you to filter out any unwanted high
frequencies. This delay/feedback feature is intended to be very basic. It does not offer a
wide control section, but is believed to contribute additional value to the Kramer Master
Tape plugin. Used carefully, this function has the capacity to create some very lovely
tape delay sounds. It also needs to be pointed out that the delay is only affected by the
Delay Time control in the delay section. It is NOT affected by the running speed of the
transport. If you need to ask why Waves included this bonus function, the answer is
quite simple...because they could, and they were confident that you would enjoy it!
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE K RAMER M ASTER T APE
Default Set-Up
The default set-up of the Kramer Master Tape, without any adjustments, will provide
identical re
sults to havin
g made your recording o
n 3M Scotch 207 at 15 ips using a NAB
standard curve with an over-bias of -3 dB at 15 kHz and at a recording flux level of 185
nWb/m. This will yield the sound of the basic industry set-up for this machine at the
height of its era. The only item remaining for you to decide will be whether or not to have
tape and tube amplifier noise, and if so, exactly to what degree.
Of course you also have other options with regard to bias, wow, speed and most
dramatically, a continuo
usly variable flux cont
rol
starting at the ultra conservative setting
of -2 dB below the classic Standard Operating Level all the way to some rather massive,
heretofore unattainable in a plugin, extreme analogue tape saturation effects.
Meter Transfer Switch
On the face of the meter, you will find a switch that lets you choose whether the meter
displays the
plugin’s
inpu
t or its output. This is purely a meter transfer switch and has no
effect on the monitored sound.
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