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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.

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Three panels, one plugin.

Neon is new in 1.5.0.

DawgDelay-201 v1.5.1 — NEONNew
DawgDelay-201 tape echo plugin, Neon panel, showing the tape head orbit display, the twelve-position mode selector, and the time, character, space, motion, tone and mix sections
DawgDelay-201 v1.5.1 — NOIR
DawgDelay-201 tape echo plugin, graphite panel, showing the twelve-position mode selector, repeat rate, tape and spring reverb sections
DawgDelay-201 v1.5.1 — Classic
DawgDelay-201 tape echo plugin, green panel, showing the twelve-position mode selector, repeat rate, tape and spring reverb sections

“The sound of 70s tape delay. With controls the originals never had.”

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Audio Demos

Four sources. Dry in, DawgDelay-201 out.

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Vocal — Dry Board Slap

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02

Guitar — Country Ricochet

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Electric Piano — Echo Chamber Dub

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04

Synth Pad — Slow Bloom

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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.

Three Faces

The interface has a graphite NOIR panel, a green Classic panel, and a Neon panel.

“The sound of 70s tape delay. With controls the originals never had.”

Available now for Mac and iPad.

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.