Bad Tape 2

Did it get worse?
The Bad Tape is amongst denise’s most popular plugins and focuses on recreating tape artifacts in a controlled way: tape stops, slight slow-downs and speed-ups, multiple ways to go out of tune and off the grid. Now denise wanted to take the Bad Tape to the next level, giving you more FX and a new level of flexibility to shape the tape degradation of your sound. With the Bad Tape 2, it gets even worse!

Next level detune
The detune is perhaps the most beloved feature of the Bad Tape, both by our users and ourselves – and for this new release, we wanted to take it to the next level. We added the ability to control the rewind and recover times of the detune individually. Work off the grid or sync it to the host BPM if you like. Recreate the sound of a (slightly) broken tape recorder, a cassette player or the nostalgic vibe of your old walkman.

What's in the box?

Next Level Detune
Slow down the tape in real time, as if you would press your finger on the tape reel.

(Artist) Presets
Comes with in-house and artist presets for synth, drums, bass and classic tape style effects.

Side-Chain
The side-chain allows you to trigger the effects via an external audio source. The amount can be set individually for each of the effects, for endless combinations and sounds.

Push-Pull Graph
The push-pull graph lets you have complete control over the frequencies that are going to be saturated. Automate it to create organically changing tape saturation and create steep curves for screaming resonances.

Harm
Introduce failing tape artifacts from subtle to extreme tape degradation.

New Effects
Phaser, doubler, resonator & magnet.

Squeal & Noise
Add old tape machine noises for character and vibe.

Colour
Adjust the overall colour of the sound analog to different tape materials.

Speed
Adjust the speed of the wow and shake effects to easily create interesting variations.

Saturation
Saturate your tracks for that good old vintage tape sound. Warm and smooth character due to hysteresis emulation.

More Benefits
Works offline, has oversampling, host syncing, native M1 support and works without dongles or complex license managers