Tape & Void is built for the sound of a guitar going straight into an interface with nothing in front of it. Four stages run in series: tape, an ambient swell, a reverb that listens to your playing, and a double-track. Nothing to patch, nothing to balance.
Every character knob crossfades its own stage, so anything left at zero is genuinely out of the way — and with MIX at zero the plugin is bit-transparent.
Input gain → the four stages → dry/wet mix → output gain → safety clip.
Asymmetric tape drive into roughly 2:1 tape compression, with a head bump, drive-dependent top-end roll-off and wow & flutter.
The ambient half — an auto-swell that blooms picked notes in from nothing, a three-voice detuned ensemble, and a breathing bandpass formant.
An eight-comb, four-allpass reverb whose wet tail is gated by how hard you're playing, so tails cut off cleanly instead of washing over the next phrase.
Double-tracked voices plus mid/side width, with the sides high-passed so the low end stays mono and centred.
Tape, drive, mod, breathe, reverb, decay and gate as amounts; double, width, input, output and mix. That's the whole plugin.
Five icon tiles with a search overlay, so you're picking a sound rather than reading a list of parameter names.
Vertical input and output meters, because a DI running into tape saturation lives or dies on gain-staging.
The same take, before and after. Hit play, then flip between the raw signal and the plugin doing its thing — no reload, no gap.
Ten per tile, so every category is a real place to start rather than a token entry.
Save your own alongside them — they land in your user folder and survive updates.
Unzip, drop the .component into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3, then rescan in your DAW. It appears under
Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
Guitar-DI tape saturation into an ambient void.
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