Reel ADT mimics the effect of sending an audio track to a separate tape machine, allowing you to adjust the time difference of the two tracks. Other classic Abbey Road tape effects such as flanging and phasing can also be achieved with ease.Īll the character, depth and panoramic sound of this inimitable classic effect can now be created digitally, simply and for real: Reel ADT. The Waves Reel ADT plug-in brings you an authentic replication of the Artificial Double Tracking effect developed at Abbey Road studios for The Beatles.

With its authentic modeled valve tape machine sound and faithful emulation of wow and flutter, this extraordinary plugin can enhance any track with the impression of two separate takes, giving you results as close as possible to real double tracking. You can also drive each of the signals separately to add beautiful tape saturations. If you want to see this thing in action, check out Joel Cameron on YouTube experimenting with the ADT technique over here. The Reel ADT And now, you can have this iconic sound downloaded as a single plugin right on your computer. Using its intuitive controls, you can advance or push back the doubled signal to achieve genuine, lush-sounding delay and pitch variations. Waves did an excellent job of packing all of this plus extra features into one single plugin. Reel ADT puts the magic of that era in your hands within seconds. The effect that would become an integral part of Abbey Road's signature sound was initially created at the famed studios in the 1960s to meet the needs of some very special clients: The Beatles.

Waves/Abbey Road Reel ADT is the first plugin to successfully emulate Abbey Road Studios' pioneering process of Artificial Double Tracking.

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