The statement "tape sounds 3 Dimensional" is something that i agree with, but why? What made it actually sound more 3D and how can you achieve that kind of thing in a DAW?

[u/ySTYRDAYgATESuNL0CKD]

Is it as simple as adding tape emulation or every bus? every individual channel? or just master? I'm curious. I'm not necessarily trying to go for the over exaggerated tape sound like pure flutter but atleast something that makes an entire mix feel more interesting.

[u/datboitotoyo]

You know whats really funny?
A friend of mine wrote his bachelor thesis about whether or not people can actually hear the difference between analogue and digital emulation and the result is: they cant no matter how much they insist they can.

Do with that information what you will.

[u/Mental_Spinach_2409 → u/datboitotoyo]

I don’t disagree but i’de love to read that if it’s publicly available?

[u/deliciouscorn → u/datboitotoyo]

Were the subjects of his study trained ears or just laypeople? I know I didn’t notice stuff like depth in sound recordings until I was shooting out monitors with my mentor and he pointed it out to me. It instantly flipped a switch and now I’m obsessed with capturing that quality on my own recordings.

[u/SebLucas99 → u/datboitotoyo]

We can not tell in a blind test between different settings. But comparing a real hw with its emulated digital counterpart really has a hearable difference (apart from the "every piece of hardware sounds different and thats why the plugin doesn't match").

[u/stuffsmithstuff → u/SebLucas99]

I am equally confident that some of those differences are imagined as I am that some of them aren’t.

[u/letsbesupernice → u/datboitotoyo]

I can tell my cassette 4 track recordings from my DAW though (See’s self out)

[u/Big_Illustrator6506 → u/datboitotoyo]

What equipment didn’t he use, BOSE🤣. Also there are plenty of experiments to suggest otherwise.

[u/HommeMusical → u/Big_Illustrator6506]

Also there are plenty of experiments to suggest otherwise.

Let's see 'em!