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Oxide Tape Recorder

Oxide Tape Recorder

4.8 (721)

Experience our easy-to-use, groundbreaking tape emulation.

  • Inject the warm color and punchy low-end response of analog tape to your tracks
  • Apply tape saturation and circuit overdrive via simple Input/Output controls
  • Choose among 7.5 and 15 IPS Tape Speeds and two emphasis curves for colorful tape textures
  • Experience in-the-box recording “through” tape in real time using Apollo interfaces

Runs natively on your macOS or Windows computer, or accelerated on Apollo audio interfaces or UAD Accelerators. View full system requirements.

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Experience our Easy-to-use, Groundbreaking Tape Emulation

Oxide Tape Recorder gives you the musical, mixable sound of tape, letting you quickly add clarity, punch, and warmth to vocals, guitars, drums, and more, so every track sounds like a record.

Get Hit-Making Analog Tape Sounds

Developed by the same team behind UA's industry-leading Ampex and Studer tape machine plug-ins, Oxide Tape Recorder gives your productions the warmth, presence, and vibe of professional analog tape, with only the essential controls, so you can get sounds faster.

Explore Groundbreaking Tape Emulation Technology

Whether you’re tracking in realtime using an Apollo interface or mixing in your DAW, Oxide’s intuitive controls deliver musical results for beginners and pros alike. Just select IPS (inches per second), EQ, and noise reduction settings, and tweak input and output controls to taste. By emulating fat tape compression and colorful circuit behaviors, Oxide gives your tracks the cohesive glue that only analog tape can provide.

What They Say

I’ve been using the Oxide Tape Recorder plug-in to oversaturate vocals and tape compress hi-hats. It sounds and feels very natural.

Mark Needham

The Killers, Neon Trees, P!nk

I'm not sure what alchemy or magic happened when you designed Oxide Tape Recorder plug-in, but I love it. It's simple to use with endless possibilities, and it's warm and crunchy while keeping transients intact.

Jacknife Lee

R.E.M, The Cars, Snow Patrol

Reviews

4.8
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
Based on 721 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 627 Total 4 star reviews: 73 Total 3 star reviews: 16 Total 2 star reviews: 0 Total 1 star reviews: 5
97%would recommend this product
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721 reviews
  • JB
    Jim B.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 months ago
    Absolutely THE BEST

    Totally love this plug-in! Great saturation !!! Love the color it gives!!!

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  • JP
    juan p.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 months ago
    Analog!!

    Excelente on everything

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  • TB
    Tracy B.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 months ago
    tape

    Everything sounds better

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  • DL
    Denny L.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    4 months ago
    One of the best Tape Sat around

    I was surprised at how good this was as I never hear much hype about it. Really warms up and thickens the sound. Sounds particularly good on Master chain,Bass and drums.

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  • BR
    Bastian R.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    4 months ago
    Terrific tape tones

    Get it!

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware is required.

Yes, 14-day plug-in demos are available. Find eligible plug‑ins

We provide three activations per license. We support activation on your computer or on an iLok USB key.

For every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both upon purchase, or the option to get it through an upgrade.

Native plug-ins are supported on macOS and Windows systems. See our Native UAD System Requirements article for full system requirements. An iLok account is required for managing your native plug-in licenses. We support iLok USB keys for portability, but one is not required.

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