The idea behind it is to have a clean, non-colored device that adds the exact calibration curves for the recording and playback heads, separately. In the recording head, the bias and HF dials are reproduced, and in the playback head, the re-balancing of LF and HF is available, as done on the real tape deck, in the original dials.
One can use M-Phasis by itself or in conjunction with the many tape plug-ins available on the market. More often than not, a specific tape machine (especially Nebula programs) and its emulation sound fantastic but they are not exactly calibrated to our mix.
Using M-Phasis allows the user to calibrate any tape plug-in, via 1:1 realistic, matched curves from a real Studer A80 machine. The capture was done at the circuit level, to focus on the specific calibration circuit and not on the whole device. This allows M-Phasis to be used with virtually any tape plug-in.
Our libraries require Nebula3, N4, or N4.5. They do not work with N4 Player or with non-commercial versions of the software.
