Year/Release Date: 06.2025
Version: v1.0.0
Developer: Strymon
Developer Website: Strymon
Format: VST3, AAX
Bit depth: 64bit
Tablet: cured_R2R
System requirements: Windows 10
Intel Core i5 processor or AMD multi-core processor
8GB RAM minimum
- 26.6Â MB
Description: While modern sound engineers and producers are accustomed to the vast variety of effects options available today, tape recorders were the first devices to be used in recording studios as effects processors.
From echo and flanger to the warmth and richness of the tape itself, the entire early history of music would sound completely different if these recording decks had not been used in this way.
Vintage Soul
The new Deco plug-in doesn’t just give you the hyper-realistic sonic signature of these classic tape machines, it’s also unique in that it resurrects the lost art of how these decks were treated in the studio workflow.
While there are now a number of plug-ins that emulate entire tape machines to a minute degree, the Deco plug-in stands out as the only software that accurately recreates the studio workflow of two tape machines working in tandem. It’s the time/speed relationship between these two decks that creates the phasing, true tape flanger, chorus, echo and double tracking effects that the Sun Studios and Abbey Roads of the world relied on for all those famous early tracks, and now it’s available in an easy-to-use and utterly convincing plug-in.
Two in One
Deco isn’t just one effect, it’s two separate sides combined to create a studio workflow.
Doubletracker
The Doubletracker side controls two interactive tape decks and has the ability to alter your sound in many different ways, easily achieving psychedelic tape flangers, gorgeous tape choruses, syrupy tape echoes and everything in between, all by altering the timing relationships between the reference and delay decks. If that’s not “old school”, we don’t know what is!
Tape Saturation
The Tape Saturation side smooths out the response of your tracks with familiar tape compression and saturation, while smoothing out the sound with subtle (or NOT subtle!) transparent tape-driven overdrive.
