TapeScam - Lofi Tape Sim for Hothouse

I saw the Kinotone Ribbons was back on sale and tried to cure my GAS by finally soldering together my Hothouse and getting started with Daisy. What a fun platform! I put together a pseudo-tape-sim pedal with the help of Claude and am really happy with what came out.

The idea was to try to have a TASCAM 424-esque drive into tape saturation with controllable wow/flutter, tape hiss, and an end of chain compressor / gain compensation.

knob 1: drive
knob 2: low end tape saturation
knob 3: wow/flutter amount
knob 4: hiss/dropout level
knob 5: tone adjustment
knob 6: global trim
switch 1: tape age (degradation multiplier)
switch 2: tape speed (HF rolloff, headroom and saturation)
switch 3: shitty-walkman-esque automatic gain compensation
FS1: bypass
FS2: nothing yet

My first Seed project, and I’m really excited to keep working on it!

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Loaded it into my HotHouse…

Fun!!!

Happy to hear that you had fun with your first Daisy project!
And thank you so much for sharing the firmware with the community :slight_smile: