How to produce Analog Sound (in your DAW) 

I’ll show you how to produce analog sounding music in your DAW, using free plugins ONLY. You’ll learn how to inject analog warmth and glue into your sterile digital tracks. I’ll walk you through the entire recording and mixing process. Serve up some vintage magic in your home recording setup right in the box!
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The simplest, fastest way to get real analog tape warmth into your songs is to simply create the best mix you can, and then send it out to a real cassette tape. You might need try it a few times, and adjust your EQ to best suit your tape machine, and the type of cassette you have. But this still is going to be a way more authentic analog tape sound, because it’s actually being sent to analog tape. To hear a sample of that check out this video here:
If that is not a possibility for you, or you want to use plugins, then here is a basic guide. The idea is to use several stages of compression, and saturation. You do that by adding gentle compression and subtle saturation to individual tracks, then grouping together similar instruments into submixes. You then treat those submixes with more subtle saturation and compression. What you can do is inject white noise using a generator or a free plugin like the caelum tape plugin. I also found the analog obsession plugins to sound very good.
And then finally on your master track you can push the mids forward a touch, and add a touch of saturation and compression again. My ultimate number one plugin suggestion is to use izotope vinyl. It’s free, it has a lot of these functions built right in, and I absolutely love the sound of the warp function. It is a really pleasing sound to my ears.
Honestly, I could have been way LESS subtle, and it would sound more ‘vintagey’. The reason i was being so subtle about all the plugins (why?!), is because digital overdrive and saturation sounds really bad to me. So I want to barely hear it, but still get some of that gluing effect. I just want to feel it a little.
Somebody who makes incredible sounding recordings in the box is washed out. Their stuff has a super analog vibe to it. It’s just very dramatic, it sounds old and new all at once. Dope producer.
BTW - I had major technical issues while making this video, so the balance of the camera mics and the mixes is all out of wack (the first mix is louder) and I could not fix it without crashing davinci. So sorry about that!
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