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Free Cassette Tape Voice Effect

Make your voice sound taped, with free wow and flutter.

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Free Cassette tape voice effect
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More versions

  • Variation: Wobble depth doubled: a tape the deck has been eating.

  • Variation: Treble cut at 3 kHz with a 10-bit crusher: the audio track of an old VHS.

Use it in calls and on recordings

  1. Try it here

    Press Start mic above and talk. You hear this voice with the exact settings on this page, and every slider can be moved.

  2. Use it live

    Press Use this voice in calls, then pick Facecam Virtual Mic as the microphone in Discord, Google Meet, Zoom or any other call that runs in Chrome.

  3. Put it on a recording

    Open Online Voice Changer, record or upload a file, choose the same settings and download the result.

More about this voice

Three things tape does to a voice

PartSettingWhat you hear
Wow and flutterChorus / vibrato 0.9 times a second, 40% mixThe pitch sags and recovers, like a motor that can't hold speed
Dull headsTreble cut above 5 kHzS sounds lose their sparkle; the voice turns soft
SaturationDistortion drive 0.2, 35% mixLoud words get warm and slightly thick
Low endBass cut below 120 HzNearly all of your chest tone is kept, unlike a radio

Talk like you pressed record

  • Hold your vowels a little longer than usual. The wobble only shows on sustained sounds, and clipped speech hides it.
  • Use a private, diary tone: a date, a name, a message meant for one person later.
  • Stay close to the mic and speak quietly, the way people talk into a handheld recorder.
  • Tape hiss and the clunk of the button are not added. Leave a second of silence at each end and add those sounds from a clip if you want them.

Fresh tape, chewed tape or VHS

The main clip is a decent tape in a decent deck: warm, with a gentle sway. In the second clip the wobble goes to 60%, and the pitch lurches the way it does when a deck has been eating the tape. That suits a horror reveal or a memory going wrong. The third clip moves the treble cut to 3 kHz and adds a 10-bit crusher at 40%. It is duller and grainier, close to the audio track of an old VHS, and fits found-footage videos and retro stream intros.

The exact settings

SettingValue
Noise gatemutes the mic below -50 dB, between words
Distortiondrive 0.2, 35% mix
Chorus / vibratowobbles 0.9 times a second, 40% mix
Bass cutbelow 120 Hz
Treble cutabove 5 kHz
Compressorsteadier volume (6:1 from -28 dB, then +6 dB)

Free Cassette tape voice effect FAQ

Can I add the cassette effect to a voice memo?

Yes. Open the Online Voice Changer, upload the memo, choose this effect and download the taped version.

Is this the same as a VHS voice effect?

The third clip is the VHS version: treble cut at 3 kHz with a 10-bit crusher. Set those two sliders after the page loads.

Why does my voice go out of tune?

That's the wow and flutter, a pitch wobble at 40%. Lower the Chorus mix for a steadier tape, or raise it for a damaged one.

Does it work for singing?

It processes any sound from your mic, sung or spoken. On held notes the sway is obvious, so start at a lower mix.

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