Overstayer Audio M-A-S Model 8101 | KMR Audio

[@RobCoates1]

Didn't hear it doing much of anything

[@lifescansdarkly]

It's not a distortion box (like a Culture Vulture or similar), it's closer to tape in that it generates 3rd order harmonics and clips/rounds transients. The drum recording they chose to demo here was pretty muddy and boomy, but it's easy to hear what the MAS is doing in the high end when the gain is increased.

[@RobCoates1]

@@lifescansdarkly I'm well aware of that but...it is so subtle that if you have an all analog studio like I do, with any particular track going thru multiple tube and transformer stages, you won't hear the MAS doing anything. Also, I've been using tape and various reel to reels from 1/2 track to 24 track since 1968. I can confidently say the MAS sounds nothing at all like tape.

[@lifescansdarkly]

@@RobCoates1 I agree, if you're recording in the analog domain and you've been layering saturation at every step, there will likely be very little benefit to using the MAS. This product seems like it was designed to give analog flavor to tracks that were recorded very clean and/or in a digital environment. And while the MAS adds harmonics and clipping, it doesn't seem to be affecting the EQ curve so no low end bump/high-end smearing like tape. Is that what you're referring to, or are there some other characteristics of the "tape sound" that you were referring to?

[@theebob2008]

That was probably one of the worst reviews ever.

[@briangale3118]

would have to agree