User Manual

Mastering Modules
OZONE 7 | MASTERING MODULES
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Vintage Tape (Advanced only)
Vintage Tape provides the frequency response (magnitude plus phase) and saturation characteristics
of magnetic tape without the crosstalk, hiss, wow, and flutter that might ruin your mix. It’s inspired by a
well-maintained Studer A810 two-track tape deck, a clean and accurate machine perfect for mastering.
The amount of tape saturation depends heavily on a very high frequency (~100 kHz) AC bias signal,
and changing the level of bias can dramatically change the character of the saturation eect. A high
bias reduces dynamic range providing more compression, a low bias also adds distortion but in a
dierent manner. Tape-saturation is a wavelength (tape speed divided by frequency) dependent
process so the exact sound of the saturation is a complex interplay between tape speed, bias-level,
program material and other factors.
Tape saturation typically produces distortion with odd harmonics. However, inaccuracies in the
AC bias design or distortion from machine electronics often mixed in even harmonics. Vintage
Tape allows you to customize the amount of even harmonic distortion and the “lumpiness” of the
reproduction head frequency response if you want to undo some of the engineering work that made
tape quite transparent for an analog medium.
Key Features
• Get the deep, natural sound and punchy low-end response of analog tape with the convenience
of a digital interface.
• Inspired by the innovative Studer A810, known for excellent frequency response even at the
critical high and low frequency range limits.
• Faithful reproduction of 15 ips and 30 ips tape speeds.
• Continuous bias control for precise tuning of frequency and distortion response.
• Mix in even harmonics for warmer saturation, or leave them out for more accurate tape
emulation.
• Accurate phase response modeling across the entire frequency spectrum to provide the natural
phase behavior of tape.