Tone Empire TM700 v1.0 WiN [MOCHA]

Kiive worth checking out. Sounds great to me. Recomend to really fiddle with all the controls, like low boost and bias which enhance the bass nicelly, stereo width etc. as there are some nice sweetspots to be found in my humble opinion.

I tried both and none of them worked for me. Their harmonic response isn't spot on but if I had to choose one I'll choose TM700

I've found most of Tone Empire's plug-ins to be quite meh, but some people love them though, so just try them out for yourself and see if you find them useful. They are very heavy on saturation/distortion in my experience, so nothing I would use on the mix bus or in mastering. Could be good for indivdual tracks and parallel sends.

In my own experience, they're shit.

I like the IK Multimedia TEAC A-6100A for this week, it changes every week. The FX from the plugin can be a little too obvious sometimes, so it need some fine tuning, depends on the program material fed to it. The default settings is so good if you just want something super obvious. Add it to a bus, track suddenly sound like it went through a tape machine. Sometimes I only use the preamp section only.

Slate VTM can be very useful when you already satisfied with the mix and don't want to change anything and just adding it for the sake of, "shit i need to add a tape machine". It's a little too subtle, but sometimes that's what you want.

J37, Satin can be pushed to be excitingly "colored" sometimes, for me they are more for pads, sustained element where you want to use the Tape Machine as an FX wobble, flutter, distortion and whatnot, or rather delay to add some movement or what they call it "life". I really love that Space Echo presets on the Satin, try it out.

I think I've used Kramer Tape for atleast 200 mixes back in the days where it's the only good tape machine plugin I have. The plugin has a sweet spot. look for it. Eddie Kramer mentioned to someone (it's Michael Brauer) and he then shared it in a MWTM video. Can't remember which one, but I kinda know it by heart now.

Kiive Tape Face if you want that a little glue compression if the tracks need it. Can be useful on mastering/mixbus sometimes to put it after LP-EQ for some leveling and high-end roll-off. It's a known trick used by proper MEs to add tape emulation after some aggressive move on a digital LP-EQ. Overall, it sounds okay, the EQ curve a little obvious with the bias option, but I want more controls, more options.

I like the IK Multimedia tape plugins more for that reason, plus there are 10 of them, 1 will always work for the mix. At this point I already developed some sense of knowing which one will suit the mix after been using them for 1 to 2 years now.

Another one of my favourite is the Baby Audio TAIP. I made a lot of presets for my use and here is the 2 my most used presets. It's a like high roll-off with a little added presence to compensate and to be used on every track. It's not that subtle but you can hear its effect clearly when used on multiple tracks, turn on/off all. Careful when using on bass heavy material and use at 100% mix or else it will flanging. Sharing just for fun.

copy the presets to : C:\ProgramData\BABY Audio\presets\TAIP

https://peeplink.in/d3e23cc741bb

After getting familiar with Toneboosters Reelbus and its capabilities, I have a really hard time finding anything close. Any tape machine feature, no matter how nuanced, is included in Reelbus with variable control.

Thanks Stevie for the review. Appreciate your take on these plugins. I want to try TM-700 out and give it a go. I'll give my experience with it as well.

This is why I quit using their stuff