Tape Stretching Explorations

I’m a real sucker for what tape does to audio when you slow the material down. It adds that emotional weight, punchy transients and just makes me feel things.

Here’s some experiments with rejected client work that I mangled and wanted to share.

Using Varispeed function in Logic to slow the ambient bed by 40%, it time-stretches the material and lowers the pitch. By exporting stretched version, re-importing, and then speeding it back up to +40%, I keep the timbral transformation + length from the slowdowned version but restore the original pitch… kind of?

This really tickles my brain in a good way, there’s lots timbral coloration and grittiness using this workflow. I started to fall in love with destructive audio manipulation by committing to my decisions!