From first idea to final touches
Whether it’s that quick memo-recorder take of a great idea, or your final polished master ready to ship, New Horizon Electronics Tapestry adds as much or as little colour as you want. Nine tape machines and four tape formulations in one pedal, for MOD Duo, Duo X and Dwarf.
A whole shelf of tape
Pick the machine, then pick what’s on the reels. A mastering deck you can leave on all night, the bedroom 4-track your first demos lived on, an old 8-track, or a 90’s answering machine. Each one wobbles, saturates and fades in its own way, because each one is built from how that machine actually worked.
Why it sounds like nothing else
Most tape plugins model one good machine. Tapestry models the mechanisms, and the odd ones get just as much care as the classics:
- Obscure formats, full character. The 8-track lurches, because its endless loop drags out of the centre of the reel. The 4-track breathes: its noise reduction hides the hiss in silence and lets it creep back in under your playing. The answering machine squeezes you down a phone line, and its auto level control pumps.
- Mix and match the impossible. Any tape on any machine. Metal tape on a dictaphone. Bargain-bin ferric on a 30 ips mastering deck. Combinations no one could ever buy.
- The wobble comes from the hardware. Wow and flutter are built from each machine’s capstan, reels, belts and motor, at the rates their geometry sets. A mastering deck barely moves; a pocket recorder never sits still.
- Tape physics, not a filter. Hot treble wipes itself off the tape first, so your pick attack smooths out while the body stays full. Every format gets its own head bump, the low end tape is loved for.
- It ages. Stretched belts, worn heads and thin oxide: more wobble, a duller top and the odd dropout.
- Clean by default. Hiss starts at zero. Bring it in when you want it, authentic for the format’s real noise floor.
- Turn down the mix for a variety of chorus or double track’ish sounds
Factory presets
| Preset | Sound |
|---|---|
| Always on | Master reel with a little Drive. Glue, not grit: leave it on all night |
| Walkman, cheap tape | Your 90’s mixtape: wobbly, dull, a bit worn |
| Walkman, chrome | Your prized tape: brighter and steadier |
| Studio half-inch | Driven into a 15 ips reel for warmth and weight |
| Home reel-to-reel | The 1970s living-room deck |
| Pocket dictaphone | That quick memo take of a great idea |
| Answering machine | Leave a message after the tone |
| VHS linear | The sound of a rented tape |
| 8-track cartridge | Road trip, back seat, worn out |
| Bedroom 4-track | Chrome tape, pushed hard: where the first demos were made |