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This quick tutorial shares how to make a custom warped old tape effect, similar to the one used by Boards of Canada and other popular bands.

The overall aesthetic of music is just as important as the actual music itself. It helps to set the mood, conjure emotions and affect your perception of things around you. Edgy, fast-paced and heavy distortion makes for a high intensity aesthetic, while lush, deep and hypnotic makes for a mellow ambient aesthetic. Of course, there are many things that add up to this in modern music. This quick and easy warped old tape effect is something that can instant impact, albeit subtle, to help you set the mood in your music.

Adding the right kind of light cyclical pitch modulation can result in a cool warped old tape effect that is perfect for electronica and many forms of downtempo, ambient or even cinematic projects. This particular workflow calls for Native Instruments Guitar Rig, which can be downloaded for free from their website. That said, there are many ways to accomplish similar effects and experimenting a bit to find your own unique approach is well worth the time and effort.

This old tape effect can also be added to individual elements in your music, rather than being applied to the entire mix. For instance, take a old school player piano melody and apply this subtle pitch modulation effect to it and apply some simple EQ curves to emulate an old recording that is being played back on a reel-to-reel tape machine, or something similar. The potential applications of this effect are endless and this same technique can also be combined with countless effects to extend your options even further.

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