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Echoes Of The Past

Stardust 201 Tape Echo is a hot-rodded interpretation of the classic tape echo effects of the 70s and 80s. Compared to earlier tape echoes, they represented a giant leap in reliability and sound quality. With solidly built tape-transport mechanisms and the inclusion of a spring reverb and chorus effects in some models, the classic tape echo boxes were truly groundbreaking with its fantastic variety of sound colors.

Stardust precisely recreates the limited fidelity and stability of audio tape, providing a natural rolloff of bass and treble frequencies for super-warm tonality and minor speed variances, lending an organic chorusing quality to repeats. Cranking the intensity knob overloads the circuit, generating the signature other-worldly runaway echoes and feedback that only a tape echo can produce. 

Cherry Audio's Stardust 201 Tape Echo includes features from the original RE-201 and RE-301 units, and we've added some of our own to create a great-sounding, super-flexible, ideal tape echo effect that never breaks down and never needs demagnetizing, all for less than the price of a replacement audio tape loop!

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  • “Stardust 201 is easily the best of the “Space Echo” plugins out there right now with its functionality and sound quality. 10/10 for what it’s worth, and it just put a smile on my face wherever I put it, including my mix bus (don’t do that at home”

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    Matt Sim
    Grammy-nominated and award winning Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Producer
    Nicki Minaj, Big Sean, Idina Menzel, Ty Dollar $ign, Billy Porter, Lexie Liu, Jackson Wang, BM@Kard, Desiigner

  • “My only issue is I'm using it on too many things! It sounds absolutely wonderful - three effects in one and all of them nailed. All of a sudden my mixes are swimming in beautiful reverb and delay. They've done an amazing job.”

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    Dom Morley
    Grammy Award winning producer/mixer/engineer
    Credits include Amy Winehouse, Adele, Sting, Nick Cave, The Verve, The Police, and many more.

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Stardust 201 Tape Echo Features: 

  • Authentically modeled vintage tape echo, including seven virtual tape head modes

  • 4x-extended "wide mode" delay time range

  • LFO echo time mod section

  • Sync to DAW master tempo

  • Exclusive "motor kill" switch

  • Lush, true-stereo modeled BBD chorus circuit

  • Modeled input overdrive for crunchy tones

  • Dual independent tape loops for super-wide stereo imaging

  • Stereo spring reverb

  • 1X, 2X, and 4X oversampling

  • Selectable mono/stereo modes

  • Bass and treble EQ controls

  • User-selectable color themes

Stardust 201 Tape Echo is available in AU, VST, VST3, AAX, and stand-alone formats.

A free 30-day demo of Stardust 201 Tape Echo is available. This demo will play white noise periodically, but is otherwise unlimited.

macOS Requirements: 10.13 or above. macOS 13 Ventura supported. 64-bit required. Native Apple M1 or greater processor support, including Ultra. 3.4 GHz Quad-Core or M1 CPU with 8GB of RAM recommended.

Windows Requirements: Windows 7 or above (including Windows 11), 64-bit required. Quad-core computer with 8GB of RAM recommended.

NOTE: Internet connection required for product activation.