Soviet Wire Recorder Emulated

US Plug-in offers soft echoes and lo-fi sound 09/11/20

Audiothing has released Wires, a plug-in emulation of a Soviet Wire Recorder which they say can turn the echoes of the past into the music of now. Here's the story in their own words...

German composer and YouTuber Hainbach opened his treasure chest for us: we are happy to present to you Wires, an accurately modeled and enhanced 1970s Soviet wire recorder. Made originally for military and secret service use across the Iron Curtain, in the hands of a few avant garde musicians it became a magical lofi-tool and ghostly echo machine. Now this rare and rather finicky to operate piece of hardware is available for the first time as a faithful yet modern plugin. Transform your audio to the world of numbers stations and secret operations, dub out to very unusual echoes or make the most lofi beats to study too.

We took great care to get all the idiosyncratic behavior exactly right – it reacts dynamically to the input and does stuff to audio that is a completely different texture to magnetic tape. There is a special tone to the hair-thin wire and the vacuum tube output stage of this machine, unheard of anywhere else. The standard way to make a unit such as this music is to put it on an aux channel of a mixer, to turn it into a fixed tempo echo. We offer all the variable time features you want, as well as the option to switch off the rather high noise floor of this machine without sacrificing the rather alive sound.

Features:

Magnetic Wire Emulation

Echo Section

Original Speaker and Mic Emulation

Start and Stop effects

Hiss and Motor noise with Envelope

Resizable Window

Preset system with randomizer