Degrade Your Mixes like it’s 1985
Warp your tracks in a blanket of 1980s nostalgia with the Super VHS Lo-Fi Plug-In from Baby Audio. Based on the satisfyingly degraded sound of abused tapes checked out from long-defunct video rental stores, the Super VHS provides a fun and intuitive way to add warble, warmth, and grit to any sound source.
Six tasty one-knob, vintage-inspired effects are on deck, including a super crispy saturator, a grainy reverb, a pitch drift LFO, a sample reducer, and a chorus so wide it needs letter boxing!
With its knob or slider per function interface, the Super VHS invites unstructured tweaking — but feel free to snap off the figurative write-protection tabs by saving your favorite custom presets. Be kind; rewind to the '80s with the Baby Audio Super VHS plug-in!
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Super VHS combines six colorful effects to bring an authentic 1980s retro vibe to your tracks
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Makes your instruments and beats sound like they were sampled off an old VHS tape
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Fast and intuitive workflow: Each effect has just one knob – but controls multiple parameters under the hood
Discover Super VHS
As kids of the 1980s we have always been drawn to the sound of slightly out-of-tune synths, warm tape saturation, gritty samples and grainy reverbs. So we set out on a mission to capture our favorite decade – and bring it into a new decade.
Using Super VHS will be like sending your sounds back in time, then re-discovering them on a worn-out VHS tape 30 years later. All with the click of a single button, right inside your DAW.
Super VHS will add some lo-fi authenticity to whatever clean sound you run through it — especially as you mix and match the effects. Each effect has just a single control, but multiple parameters under the hood, allowing for a quick workflow with a wide range of results.
HEAR IT IN ACTION
Guitar
Drum Machine
Drum Loop
Synth Bass
Rhodes
Piano
Synth Underscore
Pad Synthwave
Pad Chill Beats
Features
Super VHS features six unique ‘one-knob’ effects inspired by the VHS-era.
Static:
Static noise generated by an internal synthesizer.
Heat:
Analog-emulated tape saturator, inspired by consumer-grade tape machines.
Shape:
Sample rate reducer inspired by 1980s 8-bit samplers.
Magic:
80s style widening FX inspired by the Juno chorus, but darker and deeper.
Drift:
Pitch fluctuation LFO for unpredictable time and pitch shifting.
Wash:
‘Bad hall’ reverb inspired by budget friendly 1980s rack units.
While each effect can only be controlled with one knob, multiple parameters work under the hood to give Super VHS its characteristic sound. We encourage you to mix and match the effects as that will give you a wide range of sonic outcomes – from subtle degradation to all-out destruction.