AudioThing Wires

The AudioThing Wires is an accurately modeled and enhanced 1970s Soviet wire recorder - magical lofi-tool and ghostly echo machine.

Made originally for military and secret service use across the Iron Curtain, in the hands of a few avant garde musicians it became a magical lofi-tool and ghostly echo machine. Now this rare and rather finicky to operate piece of hardware is available for the first time as a faithful yet modern plug-in. Transform your audio to the world of numbers stations and secret operations, dub out to very unusual echoes or make the most lofi beats to study too.

Great care was taken to get all the idiosyncratic behavior exactly right – it reacts dynamically to the input and does stuff to audio that is a completely different texture to magnetic tape. There is a special tone to the hair-thin wire and the vacuum tube output stage of this machine, unheard of anywhere else. The standard way to make a unit such as this music is to put it on an aux channel of a mixer, to turn it into a fixed tempo echo. All the variable time features you want are offered, as well as the option to switch off the rather high noise floor of this machine without sacrificing the rather alive sound.

WIRE RECORDERS

Magnetic wire recorders went out of fashion after the advent of magnetic tape, surviving only in special operations such as flight recorders, space flight, or clandestine operations (wearing a wire denotes not the cable but the recorder). The particular model of recorder modeled, the MN61, comes from East German Army stock – on the reels you could still hear traces of military operations.

LO-FI

Who needs tape for lo-fi? This machine is taking the term “lo-fi” to an entirely new and haunting level.

There is a special tone to the hair-thin wire and the vacuum tube output stage of this wire recorder, unheard of anywhere else.

Wires turns the most boring signals into sepia coloured magic.

FEATURES:

• Magnetic Wire Emulation
• Echo Section
• Original Speaker and Mic Emulation
• Start and Stop effects
• Hiss and Motor noise with Envelope
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

WINDOWS

• Windows 7, 8, 10
• 2 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
• VST2, VST3, or AAX (64-bit)

MAC

• OS X 10.9 – macOS 11
• 2 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
• VST2, VST3, AU, or AAX (64-bit)
• Universal 2 Binary