Strymon – Deco Plugin v1.0.0 for WiN

Description : While modern sound engineers and producers are accustomed to the huge variety of effects options available today, tape recorders were the first devices used in recording studios as effects processors.

From echo and flanger to the warmth and richness of the tape itself, the entire early history of music would have sounded completely different if these recording decks had not been used in this way.

Vintage Soul

The new Deco plug-in doesn’t just give you the hyper-realistic sonic signature of these classic tape machines, it’s also unique in that it resurrects the forgotten art of how these decks were treated during the studio workflow.

While there are now a number of plug-ins that emulate entire tape machines to a minute degree, the Deco plug-in stands out as the only software that accurately recreates the studio workflow of two tape machines working in tandem. It’s the time/speed relationship between these two decks that creates the phasing, true tape flanger, chorus, echo and double tracking effects that the Sun Studios and Abbey Roads of the world relied on for all those famous early tracks, and it’s now available in an easy-to-use and utterly convincing plug-in.

Two in one

Deco isn’t just one effect, but two separate sides combined to create a studio-grade workflow.

Doubletracker The Doubletracker side controls two interactive tape decks and has the ability to alter your sound in many different ways, easily achieving psychedelic tape flangers, gorgeous tape choruses, syrupy tape echoes and everything in between, all by altering the timing relationships between the reference and delay decks. If that’s not “old school”, we don’t know what is! Tape Saturation The Tape Saturation side smooths out the response of your tracks with familiar tape compression and saturation, while smoothing out the sound with subtle (or NOT subtle!) transparent tape-driven overdrive.