15IPS mkIII Tape Saturation Colour

The compression, saturation, and tone of analog tape. (Everything but the hiss.) For decades analog tape was the sound of records. Then the technology changed, but our ears didn't. Things tracked on tape just sound fuller, warmer, and more "finished" by default than things tracked digitally. Bring the sound of tape back to your recordings with the 15IPS Colour. The sound of tape comes from three things—compression, harmonic saturation, and filtering—and the 15IPS does all three. Compression Tape has a "built-in" compressor; that is, it can only take so much signal and anything above that limit is compressed. The 15IPS' ladder of diodes recreates this soft clipping, making sounds fuller and more present in the mix without adding more volume. Saturation The "warmth" of tape comes from the harmonic saturation of both the tape itself and the electronics of the tape machine. The 15IPS' diodes emulate the harmonics generated by the tape, while the discrete transistor circuitry creates the co