Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT - Artificial Double Tracking Plugin

Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT - Artificial Double Tracking Plugin

Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT delivers the authentic tape-based Artificial Double Tracking effect created by Abbey Road technician Ken Townsend for John Lennon and The Beatles. Unlike simple doublers, the original ADT double moved ahead of and behind the source, and that constant fluctuation made the effect rich and rhythmically interesting.

Two modelled tape machines, one for the source and one for the double, each provide their own saturation, wow and flutter and pitch fluctuation, creating the impression of two distinct takes from a single performance. Tape speed can be controlled manually, by LFO, synced to the host or randomised, for anything from natural doubling to flanging and phasing.

• Abbey Road's complete double-tracking process
• Two modelled tape machines, source and double
• Separate saturation, wow and flutter and pitch drift
• Tape speed by hand, LFO, host sync or random
• Natural doubling through to flanging and phasing
• Designed with Abbey Road Studios

Supplied as a digital download with a perpetual licence. After purchase you receive a Waves serial number to register to your Waves account; the plugins are then installed and activated with the free Waves Central application, either to your computer or to an exFAT-formatted USB flash drive, one device at a time. A Waves account and an internet connection are needed to activate; no hardware dongle is required. Formats: AAX Native, AudioSuite, AU and VST3 (64-bit) on macOS Sonoma 14 or later, and AAX Native, AudioSuite and VST3 (64-bit) on Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11. Intel and Apple silicon Macs and x64 Intel or AMD PCs are supported; 16 GB RAM is recommended.