DAWGDELAY‑201
Three Tape Heads and a Spring Tank.
This plugin recreates a vintage tape echo. It has twelve modes that use three virtual tape heads and a spring tank. It includes the wow, flutter, hiss, and record-head saturation of the original hardware. It also adds new features like independent left and right tape speeds, tempo synchronization, and an assignable LFO.
Twenty-four presets, not two hundred. Every one of them a different sound.
Now available for Mac
Buy for Mac — $7.49or
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AU · AUv3 · VST3 · macOS 11+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
$7.49 through September 30, then $9.99. No code needed — the discount is applied automatically at checkout.
Cine Reverb’s launch paid for this one. The price is a thank-you, not a statement about what’s inside.
Coming soon to iPad
AUv3 for iPadOS 16+. $4.99.
Two panels, one plugin.
“The sound of 70s tape delay. With controls the originals never had.”
Audio Demos
Four sources. Dry in, DawgDelay-201 out.
Vocal — Dry Board Slap
Guitar — Country Ricochet
Electric Piano — Echo Chamber Dub
Synth Pad — Slow Bloom
Twelve Modes, Three Heads
The plugin includes every combination of the three tape heads. Four modes run the spring tank with the echo. One mode runs the tank by itself. The display shows which heads are active.
Tape That Behaves Like Tape
Motor inertia creates smooth speed changes like a physical capstan. Wow, flutter, hiss, and record-head saturation have individual controls.
Independent Left and Right
There are two repeat rates with a link switch. A Rate Offset control can separate them by up to five percent to create width without detuning. The plugin also includes Ping-Pong and Mid/Side routing options.
A Real Spring Tank
The modeled spring has controls for decay, tone, and volume. It is fed in parallel from the dry signal. It produces the metallic sound of the original hardware. It does not sound like a plate or hall reverb.
Synced or Free
Repeat and LFO rates can lock to the host tempo independently. Settings range from whole notes to thirty-second notes in straight, dotted, or triplet timings. The LFO provides sine, triangle, square, and sample-and-hold shapes. It can be assigned to repeat rate, pan, reverb mix, or tone.
Runaway Without the Risk
Setting Intensity to the maximum level causes intentional self-oscillation. A permanent output limiter is located outside the feedback loop to prevent clipping. This allows you to use runaway feedback as a controlled effect.
Two Faces
The interface has a graphite NOIR panel and a green Classic panel.
“The sound of 70s tape delay. With controls the originals never had.”
Available now for Mac. Coming soon to iPad. Windows in 2026.
Built with JUCE. DawgDelay-201 is an original product. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with any manufacturer of hardware tape echo units. All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.