SKnote DolA

Back in the bad old days of recording to tape, the Dolby A noise reduction system was widespread. An encoder emphasised high frequencies, to be recorded to tape (the boosted highs masking tape hiss), then the signal was run through a decoder on output to de- emphasise those frequencies (and the hiss) to normal. If you skip the decoder stage, you get a super-boosted, airy treble presence – and many producers used this to great effect, especially on vocals. Now SKnote have brought that same trick to your DAW with DolA ($ 40), which has three modes to emulate settings and hardware mods.

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