Somewhere between nostalgia and stubbornness sits the compact cassette, and a developer named Andrey Romanov has built a tool to bottle its sound. Audio-Cassette-Simulation is a set of scripts that run through ffmpeg and dress your files in the character of a specific tape, hiss, wobble and all.
There is nothing mystical about it. The work lives in the filter chains, and the payoff is that each profile answers to a real cassette rather than a generic lo-fi preset. BASF LH Extra C90 gives you moderate hiss and mild flutter. Maxell UD C90 runs cleaner with a wider range. The 1978 Sony CHF tapes bring warm mids and a touch of speed…
