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14-day money back guarantee included if product is not activated
You can purchase from Gear4music with complete confidence and peace of mind. All of our digital products come with a 14-day money-back guarantee as standard.
If you decide you don't want your order, you can return it within 14 days of receiving it. Provided your product hasn't been activated in that time, you can exchange it for a different product, or get a refund.
We will only issue a new product or refund if the supplier confirms that your product has not been activated. At the same time, we will ask them to invalidate it so that it cannot be used in the future.
This does not affect your statutory rights.
For more information, please refer to our Returns and Refunds Information.
If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 30 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
In the unlikely event that any item in this order is faulty, damaged or incorrect on receipt, notify us within 14 days and we'll arrange a free collection.
When returning an order please ensure products are appropriately packaged and protected, to prevent them from getting damaged.
This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
Key Features
Satin provides you with the ultimate emulation of the sound and feel of vintage tape machines as a plug-in for your DAW. Chosen for the warm and soft character, there's nothing else that sounds like vintage tape. From subtle compression and saturation to full-blown overdrive, Satin delivers everything with immaculate sound quality and versatility, including all of the "bad" parts too such as the hiss and flutter!
Just like on classic tape machines, Satin brings you all of the flexible sounds possible through these machines, such as tape delay and tape flange. You can add the signature depth and movement to your tracks with unrivalled control over each and every aspect. Deep dive in and create your own custom tape delay to suit the tempo and style of your music, or even tweak internal parameters through the Service Panel to find the right flavour and tone of your Satin.
Product Ref: 185175
During the inception of the recorded music industry, tape machines were the life and soul of every studio. Throughout the years the cost and performance benefit of digital recording systems slowly phased out tape recordings. Often at times, digital systems lack the musicality and warmth that tape machines provided, and now you for a fraction of the costs, you can add the same vibe and character to your music with Satin. The non-linear behaviour, distortion and saturation and imperfections are what will give your music character and soul that will lift your productions to the next level.
A complex but musical sound, Satin fuses the intricate interactions between the various parts of a tape machine to your sound source to create the signature sound that you've heard on all of your favourite records throughout history. Using proprietary component level modelling, Satin gives you unrivalled sound quality that adds the staple character and warmth of real-life vintage tape machines to your music. A toolkit of parts that takes the best parts from many machines, Satin is the ultimate tool for modern producers looking to add musicality to their digitally recorded tracks to take away the sterile and often dry nature of their tones. Use it on your vocals for subtle compression, EQ and saturation that will let you fit in the mix straight away or why not use it on a mix bus to glue your instruments together.
A staple in vintage machines are the tape delay and flanging effects you can achieve to create depth and movement in your tracks. Rather than emulate any specific delay circuit from vintage tape machines, Satin gives you the tools to construct your own delay trails. Intuitive and easy to use, two or four tape heads can be used to create ping-pong or stereo effects with varying tape speed and tape material to drastically change your tone. In Flange mode, you have access to the sound of two tape machines running out of phase, exactly the same technique that started it all. Using the Service Panel, you can control the length and depth of the flange to tailor it perfectly to the tempo and style of your song.
Vintage tape machines often needed servicing due to their design and construction, this would involve opening up and peeking under the hood to tamper with parts to get the desired sound. With Satin, you now have the ability to do this yourself, without any disastrous and costly consequences! Service your Satin and add the desired character and flavour to your sound and stamp your sonic signature on the world.
Included in Satin is the Tape section, containing arguably the most important attributes to the tape machine sound, hiss, wow, flutter, crosstalk and bias. These can drastically change your sound for a subtle vibe and glue all the way through to overdriven and distorted like a reel of tape gone bad. Here you can create a signature EQ curve to introduce resonance and fluctuation on the tape that causes a unique interaction to give your tracks character.
