AudioThing has announced the release of its new audio plugin Wires, an accurately modeled and enhanced 1970s Soviet wire recorder.
The collaboration with Hainbach models a recorder from East German Army stock, on which you could still hear traces of military operations on its reels.
Made originally for military and secret service use across the Iron Curtain, in the hands of a few avant garde musicians it became a magical lofi-tool and ghostly echo machine. Now this rare and rather finicky to operate piece of hardware is available for the first time as a faithful yet modern plugin. Transform your audio to the world of numbers stations and secret operations, dub out to very unusual echoes or make the most lofi beats to study too.
We took great care to get all the idiosyncratic behavior exactly right – it reacts dynamically to the input and does stuff to audio that is a completely different texture to magnetic tape. There is a special tone to the hair-thin wire and the vacuum tube output stage of this machine, unheard of anywhere else. The standard way to make a unit such as this music is to put it on an aux channel of a mixer, to turn it into a fixed tempo echo. We offer all the variable time features you want, as well as the option to switch off the rather high noise floor of this machine without sacrificing the rather alive sound.
Wires features
- Magnetic Wire Emulation.
- Echo Section.
- Original Speaker and Mic Emulation.
- Start and Stop effects.
- Hiss and Motor noise with Envelope.
- Resizable Window.
- Preset system with randomizer.
Available in VST/VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats at AudioThing and Plugin Boutique, Wires is on sale for the intro price of 39 EUR (regular 49 EUR). Owners of Reels can get an additional discount.
