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Baby Audio
Super VHS $49 (on sale at $29)
Web babyaud.io
Format Mac/PC, VST/VST3/AU/AAX
It’s pretty obvious when you look at the demand for plugins that distort and add dirt to your sound, that maybe computer music-making has made everything too clean and pristine. (Some crazies even say that computers have made all music sound the same, but let’s not go there.) The popularity of the analogue synth could also be a by-product of this cleanliness, but now the plugin world is certainly responding with a raft of noise, distortion and general mayhem for your muck-spreading needs.
Baby Audio’s Super VHS is not about that, but a big factor in its approach to bending your audio is doing it in an out-of-kilter and often unpredictable way. The ‘Super VHS’ title, then, is a homage to an era when things weren’t as
