What it does
MT-05
- 01 Warmth: gain-compensated saturation that fades in from nothing
- 02 Age: high-end loss with a gentle head-bump low shelf
- 03 Wobble: wow and flutter with slow, drifting rate
- 04 Dust: crackle and hiss that swells with the program
- 05 Unity at zero: all four at rest passes audio through bit-identically
- 06 A real transport: 7.5, 15 and 30 ips, and a tape-stop brake whose wind-down is reported as tail
- 07 Per-instance noise seeding: Reel on four tracks is four different tapes, not one correlated hiss
The idea
Reel is the Tape Room made literal: four words where a manual would be. Warmth saturates without getting louder, Age wears the top end the way years do, Wobble drifts the pitch on a slow hand, and Dust adds the crackle and hiss of a reel that has lived a little.
At zero it passes audio through bit-identically, and every instance seeds its own noise, so Reel on four tracks is four different tapes, not one correlated hiss. The transport is real too: three speeds, and a tape-stop brake whose wind-down the host hears as tail.