Crow Tape Flanger
Crow Tape Flanger,
as its name suggests, is a tape flanger emulator for NI Reaktor.
Crow Tape Flanger allows you to use the modulation
wheel
to create the flanging effect manually, for the most authentic
sound and feel.
Flanging effect was originally created by running two identical
copies of the same recording on open-reel analogue recorders and
then summing the two outputs together via a mixer at exactly the
same levels. The two recordings were started together and then
the speed of one of the machines was slowed-down slightly by
using hand pressure on the tape reel. Flange crow emulates this
process in a way that digital flanging effects usually don't.
These are
the main differences between Crow Flanger and other flanger
effects:
- To
make the effect stronger, a usual digital flanger effect uses
feedback while there is no feedback loop in a real tape
flanging. Crow Tape
Flanger
sounds great without the need to use a feedback loop.
- With
a regular digital flanger unit, the delay between the two
signals never passes through zero point. With
Crow Tape Flanger
it does.
- With
regular digital flanger units a standard LFO modulates the delay
time. This movement is repetitive and doesn't emulate the hand
made delay between two tapes that originally made the tape
flanging effect. With
Crow Tape Flanger
you can create this movement with your hand on the modulation
wheel for the authentic flanging sound and feel.
