Super VHS by Baby Audio
How To Get The 80s VHS Sound In Your Music, you need Super VHS! Super VHS By Baby Audio is a quirky little device that brings together 6 unique effects. These have been inspired by the 80s VHS generation. This is a no-fuss plugin that you just shove on a track, grab the controls and begin to play! It’s got a sleek looking design and is a fun addition to the studio of anyone who likes a bit of lo-fi grit.
This multi-fx plugin has superb sound quality. I’m a huge fan of the ‘dark chorus’ FX and ‘bad hall’ reverb. The drift setting can really give your tracks a retro vibe by adding some subtle (or not) movement.
Combined with the analogue saturator and adding some sample rate reduction you can really give your sounds a crunchy classic vibe of a different generation.
View the video to watch me use Super VHS to create a really cool sounding build-up that would suit genres like techno. Or keep reading for more features below.
You can grab a copy here: https://bit.ly/BA-SuperVHS (Official Site)
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LoFi Vibes from a Strange Decade
As kids of the 80s, the Baby Audio team have always been drawn to the sound of slightly out-of-tune synths, warm tape saturation, gritty samples and grainy reverbs.
So they set out on a mission to capture the lo-fi spirit of their favourite decade — and bring it into a new decade. Meet a complex algorithm with eight simple knobs. They named it ‘Super’ for its powers and ‘VHS’ for its sound.
Baby Audio wanted this plugin to be like sending your sounds back in time, then re-discovering them on a worn-out VHS tape 30 years later. All with the click of a single button, right inside your DAW.
The result is six unique effects coming together in a versatile signal chain. Super VHS will add some lo-fi authenticity to whatever clean sound you run through it — from a subtle touch of character to extreme sonic twists that leave your head spinning. Each effect has just a single control, but multiple parameters under the hood, allowing you to find endless combinations to transform your synths, samples, guitars, drums, vocals and beyond.
Super VHS by Baby Audio Effects Overview
- STATIC: A synthesized hum, generated by a pink noise oscillator mixed with a digital saw wave.
- HEAT: A warm sounding saturation algorithm inspired by ‘consumer-grade’ tape machines from the early 1980s.
- SHAPE: A sample rate reducer (with some extras) inspired by 1980s 8-bit samplers.
- MAGIC: A lush “Juno style” chorus — but modeled with a slightly darker and more detuned tone.
- DRIFT: An internal LFO creating unpredictable pitch and time fluctuations, ranging from ‘natural’ to ‘supernatural’.
- WASH: A grainy, unnatural sounding, hall reverb, inspired by digital rack effects from the VHS-era.
- MIX: Controls the over-all wet/dry balance.
- OUTPUT: Controls the global output.
- HIDDEN PROCESSING: High shelf EQ attenuation, bit-crusher, limiter.
Wait, where are the Presets?
Like the ‘I Heart NY’ parallel compressor, Super VHS isn’t designed for preset browsing. Instead, you have all the controls you need at your fingertips — allowing you to create the right sound for any purpose in a simple and intuitive way (faster and more rewarding than by clicking through presets). The effect algorithms respond very differently to different sounds and instruments — so you never quite know where you’ll end up.
And a final word of warning: Super VHS is not a ‘one-size fits all’ kind of effect. Its six algorithms can sound heavenly on some things and totally destroy others. More often than not a little goes a long way!
Super VHS by Baby Audio Vids & Links
If you would like to grab Super VHS by Baby Audio then please check it out using this link, which helps support Producer Life, thank you. Check the video from our YouTube channel that demonstrates how to make a cool techno build using Super VHS.
https://bit.ly/BA-SuperVHS (Official Site)
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