vanBuffelen Delaytor 3000 (v1.0.0) — User Manual, Tape Echo & Hybrid Spring Reverb Guide

1. Overview & Sonic Philosophy

The vanBuffelen Delaytor 3000 (v1.0.0) is a component-level software recreation of vintage multi-head magnetic tape echo machines and electromechanical spring reverb tanks. Inspired by iconic 1970s hardware such as the Roland Space Echo RE-201 and classic Frippertronics Sound-on-Sound tape loopers, Delaytor captures the drifting, warm, saturated, and gloriously unruly character of physical tape hardware across Linux, Windows, and macOS.

vanBuffelen Delaytor 3000 Full Interface

vanBuffelen Delaytor 3000: Full analog front panel featuring Hybrid Spring Reverb, 11-Mode Multi-Head Delay, Function Toggles, Physical On-Tape Wear & Tear, Stereo Matrix, and Ballistic VU Meter.

📼 True Multi-Head Topology

Physical Record Head (95 Hz head bump, HF self-erasure & bias hysteresis) feeding three Hermite playback heads (1x, 2x, 3x) and an 11-mode rotary selector.

🌀 800 ms Motor Inertia

Continuous DC capstan momentum filter produces authentic analog pitch dives, tape flanging, and Doppler sweeps when turning Repeat Rate.

⚡ Zero-Latency Hybrid Springs

Unites real RE-201 spring tank impulse convolution (0 block latency) with 4 helical spring waveguides, 10-stage chirp dispersion, and decays up to ~5.8s.

🎞️ Physical On-Tape Wear

Splices, oxide creases, Wallace spacing loss, and flux-modulated hiss are written onto the moving tape and travel sequentially from Head 1 → 2 → 3.

2. Signal Architecture & DSP Flow

Delaytor 3000 runs at 0 samples of latency (44.1 kHz to 192 kHz) using 64-bit internal Hermite cubic read-head interpolation and zero-latency partitioned convolution:

Pre-Amp, Input Drive & Bias Ripple: Applies ±24 dB gain, asymmetric hysteresis (2nd harmonics), and multi-harmonic 50/100/150 Hz power-supply bias ripple with 12 Hz DC blocking.
Magnetic Record Head: Imprints 95 Hz magnetic head-bump warmth, dynamic high-frequency self-erasure under hot drive, and over 85% of the flux-modulated oxide hiss directly onto the tape.
Audio & Surface Ring Buffers: Dual stereo audio loops plus a physical tape-surface state buffer carry adhesive splices, continuous oxide wear, and creases down the moving tape.
4-Oscillator Motor & 3x Hermite Playback Heads: Dual Wow (0.52 / 1.31 Hz) and Dual Capstan Flutter (6.3 / 11.1 Hz) modulate 4-point cubic Hermite heads H1, H2, and H3 with per-head Wallace spacing loss and tension jolts.
Inductive Crosstalk & 11-Mode Combinator: Models adjacent head-to-head ghost bleed (H1 ↔ H2 ↔ H3) and stereo track bleed (L ↔ R) before energy-normalized multi-head summing.
Feedback & S.O.S. Overdub Loop: Self-limiting fast_tanh feedback loop (with 120 Hz rumblestop) plus an optional erase-head bypass loop with a 6 kHz demagnetization filter.
Zero-Latency Hybrid Spring Reverb: Triple-Drive transducer with dynamic bias sag → 240 Hz cabinet body & 2.65 kHz coil peak → 10-stage allpass chirp ladder → RE-201 FFT convolver + 4 helical spring waveguides → complementary allpass stereo decorrelator.
Master Stereo Width & Ballistic VU: 4 spatial modes, Mid/Side width matrix, and 101-frame peak-immune needle ballistics (+18 dB headroom).

3. Quick Start Workflows

Dial in four classic studio setups in under a minute:

1. 1970s Kingston Dub Echo

Set Mode to 11 (ALL + REV), Repeat Rate to 4.5 (~250 ms), Intensity to 0.75, Input Drive to +4 dB, Bias to 0.4, and Reverb Volume to 0.45 (Medium Drive).

2. Vintage Surf Spring Slap

Set Mode to 5 (H1 + REV), Repeat Rate to 1.2 (~70 ms), Intensity to 0.2, Reverb Drive to High, Tone to +0.5, Decay to 1.5s, and routing to NRM.

3. Ambient Lo-Fi S.O.S. Loop

Flick S.O.S. UP and AMB/MOTOR to AMB (9.5s loop). Set Motor to 0.45 and T.Condition to 0.50. Layer pads infinitely; tap ERASE TAPE to flush clean.

4. Modern Ping-Pong Stabs

Flick BPM Sync UP, select 1/8 Dotted or 1/4 Triplet, set Stereo Mode to Ping-Pong, Width to 100%, Echo Vol to 0.60, and Feedback to 0.65.

4. Delay Core & The 11 Multi-Head Modes

The center deck houses the three physically spaced playback heads (1x, 2x, and 3x distances from the Record Head), the bakelite 11-mode selector, the ruby Rate pulse lamp, and the transport controls.

Delay Section: 11-Position Mode rotary switch, tempo-locked ruby Rate LED, Erase Tape momentary switch, and Sync Div / Volume / Rate / Feedback controls.

The 11-Position Mode Rotary Selector

Intelligent multi-head normalization (1.0 / active_heads) keeps output volume balanced when switching across single, dual, and triple head combinations.

Mode	Dial Label	Active Heads	Spring Reverb?	Musical Character & Use Case
1	`H1`	Head 1 (1x)	No	Tight slapback echo, rockabilly, vocal thickening.
2	`H2`	Head 2 (2x)	No	Medium rhythmic echo, standard guitar or synth solo delay.
3	`H3`	Head 3 (3x)	No	Long, spacious delay repeats for sweeping leads and pads.
4	`H1 + 2`	Heads 1 & 2	No	Bouncing, galloping dual-tap rhythmic groove.
5	`H1 + REV`	Head 1	YES	Vintage surf guitar slapback with splashy hybrid spring tank.
6	`H2 + REV`	Head 2	YES	Medium rhythmic delay layered over warm spring acoustics.
7	`H3 + REV`	Head 3	YES	Deep, atmospheric space echo for psychedelic soundscapes.
8	`H1 + 2 + REV`	Heads 1 & 2	YES	Interlocking dual-head rhythm floating in a reverberant spring hall.
9	`H2 + 3 + REV`	Heads 2 & 3	YES	Wide polyrhythmic delay cascade with lush spring tail.
10	`H1 + 3 + REV`	Heads 1 & 3	YES	Wide syncopated "gallop" (dotted groove feel) + Reverb.
11	`ALL + REV`	Heads 1, 2 & 3	YES	Dense triple-tap cloud with full hybrid spring reverb.

800 ms Motor Inertia & Self-Limiting Dub Runaway

Turning RATE (30 ms to 3000 ms) smoothly accelerates or brakes the virtual capstan through an 800 ms physical inertia filter for pitch slides and Doppler warbles. Pushing INTENSITY past 1.0 (up to 1.2) initiates warm, singing analog self-oscillation protected by rational fast_tanh tape saturation, a 120 Hz high-pass filter, and a 10 Hz DC blocker.

5. Function Toggles & Sound-on-Sound (S.O.S.)

Positioned to the left of the delay deck are four rugged hardware toggle switches arranged vertically from top to bottom:

Function Toggles (top to bottom): DRY KILL, AMB/MOTOR, S.O.S., and BPM SYNC above the 9-step SYNC DIV selector.

DRY KILL (Top Switch): Completely mutes the dry signal path—indispensable on DAW Aux / FX Send buses or for 100% wet ambient washes without comb-filtering.
AMB / MOTOR (Second Switch): Selects the loop topology when S.O.S. is engaged:
- MOTOR (Motor Sync): Taps audio from Playback Head 3 for tempo-locked rhythmic phrase loops.
- AMB (Fixed Ambient): Engages the full physical 9.5-second circulating tape loop for Frippertronics beds and evolving drones.
S.O.S. (Third Switch — Erase Head Bypass): Disconnects the virtual erase head so incoming audio records over existing tape layers. Each pass runs through a dedicated 6,000 Hz Demagnetization Filter and progressive tape compression so older layers recede warmly into the background.
BPM SYNC (Bottom Switch): Locks the motor to host DAW tempo across 9 musical subdivisions selected on the SYNC DIV dial (1/4, 1/8, 1/16 straight, dotted, and triplet).

Erase Tape Momentary Panic Switch

Spring-loaded momentary ERASE TAPE button with brushed aluminum bezel.

Click and hold ERASE TAPE to zero out both stereo tape buffers and flush all internal filter states instantly without clicks or speaker thumps. Releasing the mouse pops the switch back out to resume recording.

6. Hybrid Physical & Convolution Spring Reverb

Updated in v1.0.0, Delaytor unites high-resolution impulse responses captured from a physical 1970s RE-201 tank (running at zero block latency) with 4 physical helical spring waveguides (29.3 ms, 35.1 ms, 41.7 ms, 48.3 ms) and a 10-stage allpass chirp dispersion ladder:

Hybrid Reverb Section: Triple-Drive selector (Low, Med, High), NRM/AMB series-parallel switch, VOLUME, TONE, DECAY, and illuminated ballistic VU Meter.

🎛️ Triple-Drive & Bias Sag

Low (1.15x Class-A headroom), Med (2.25x RE-201 sweet spot), and High (4.20x overdriven coil with deep dynamic supply/grid bias sag and 0.88 chirp drip).

⏱️ ~0.45s to ~5.8s Decay

DECAY (0.1–3.0, ~2.7s at 1.0) asynchronously recompiles the RE-201 IR envelope on a background worker thread while scaling all 4 helical waveguide loops.

🎸 240 Hz Body & 2.65 kHz Coil

TONE shapes an 80–140 Hz rumble cut, warm 240 Hz tank body, electromagnetic 2.65 kHz pickup coil twang, and a 2-pole filter (1.6 kHz dub to 6.2 kHz surf).

🔀 NRM vs AMB Routing

NRM (Parallel): Pre-amp feeds echo and springs separately.
AMB (Series): Every tape echo splashes directly into the spring tank for cavernous trails.

7. Wear & Tear (Physical On-Tape Imperfection Modeling)

Unlike conventional plugins that bolt static LFOs or white noise onto the output bus, Delaytor 3000 writes physical surface wear, adhesive splices, and flux-modulated oxide hiss directly onto the moving tape buffer—so imperfections interact with the Record Head and travel sequentially across Head 1 → Head 2 → Head 3 (coloring even the very first echo at Feedback = 0):

Wear & Tear Panel: 8 precision micro-tweak dials (NOISE, SPLICE, MOTOR, BIAS, T.CONDITION, HUM, X-TALK, INPUT DRIVE) and the NORM / CrO2 oxide switch.

INPUT DRIVE (-24 to +24 dB) & BIAS (0.0–1.0): Drives the pre-amp and magnetic Record Head with automatic gain compensation, 95 Hz magnetic head bump, dynamic HF self-erasure, and asymmetric hysteresis for rich 2nd-order even harmonics.
MOTOR (4-Oscillator Transport): Combines Dual Wow LFOs (0.52 Hz & 1.31 Hz reel/pinch-roller eccentricity) with Dual Capstan Flutter LFOs (6.3 Hz & 11.1 Hz tension shimmer).
SPLICE (Travels Head 1 → 2 → 3): Written onto the tape surface buffer at the Record Head so each head experiences a brief mechanical tension jolt, a Wallace spacing-loss HF/level dip, and a warm bipolar magnetic bias-step thump in exact rhythmic sequence.
T.CONDITION (Continuous Oxide Shedding): Applies 2-stage non-linear Wallace spacing loss, mechanical tape crinkle & stereo azimuth wander, signal-dependent microscopic asperity modulation noise, and smooth RC-enveloped dropouts traveling H1 → H3.
NOISE & HUM: Band-limited (160 Hz – 3.4 kHz) magnetic oxide hiss (>85% recorded directly onto tape, breathing with signal flux) plus multi-harmonic 50 / 100 / 150 Hz transformer flux and bridge-rectifier bias ripple.
X-TALK (Head & Track Bleed): Inductive coupling between adjacent playback coils (H1 ↔ H2 ↔ H3, up to 14% ghost echoes from unselected heads) plus stereo track-to-track bleed (L ↔ R, up to 18%).

Normal (Type I) vs Chrome (Type II) Oxide

NORM (Type I — Ferric Oxide): Classic 1970s formulation (3,800 Hz base oxide roll-off), darker repeats, earlier warm compression, and pronounced 95 Hz head bump.
CrO2 (Type II — Chromium Dioxide): Higher-bias formulation (10,500 Hz extended bandwidth), crisper transients, and higher magnetic headroom.

8. Master Stereo Processor & Ballistic VU Meter

Stereo Section: 4-Way spatial topology selector and continuous Mid/Side Master Width knob.

Stereo Mode	Technology	Sonic Character & Mono Compatibility
Dual Mono	100% Phase Coherent	Strict dead-center mono path for tape, hiss, and spring tank. Zero phase cancellation when summed to mono.
Inverted Modulation	90° Quadrature LFO	Offsets L/R Wow & Flutter phases by 90° (Sine vs Cosine) with a 1.5 ms static azimuth offset for lush stereo chorus without center cancellation.
Azimuth Offset	8 ms Haas Time Shift	Simulates physical head azimuth tilt, introducing an 8 ms interaural time difference for wide 3D spread.
Ping-Pong	Cross-Feedback Routing	Alternates repeats across Left and Right (automatically initiates stereo bounce even from pure mono sources).

True Phase-Decorrelated Stereo Springs & Ballistic VU

101-frame illuminated ballistic VU needle calibrated to +18 dB headroom with max(|L|, |R|) peak immunity.

In stereo modes 2–4, the hybrid spring tank pairs odd/even left/right helical waveguides with complementary allpass dispersion networks, creating a wide 3D spring field that collapses to mono with zero comb-filtering or hollowness.

9. Mouse & UI Interaction

Action	Target	Behavior
Left Click + Vertical Drag	Any Knob	Smooth continuous parameter adjustment.
Shift + Click + Drag	Any Knob	Fine Precision Mode (5x higher resolution, `0.002` step sensitivity).
Mouse Wheel Scroll	Any Knob	Calibrated stepped parameter increment/decrement.
Double Click	Any Knob	Instantly resets parameter to factory default value.
Left Click	Toggle Switch	Flips switch state (UP / DOWN) with click-free transition.
Click and Hold	Erase Tape Button	Zeroes stereo tape buffers and filter states; springs back to OFF on release.

10. Pro Sound Design Recipes & Presets

Dial in iconic vintage hardware tones with these six studio presets:

Dub / Reggae

Recipe 1: Kingston Dub Siren & Feedback Wash

Mode: Mode 11 (ALL + REV)

The legendary Lee 'Scratch' Perry / King Tubby dub echo. Triple heads create a thick cascade while high feedback hovers right at analog self-oscillation. Sweep RATE between 4 and 7 on snare hits for classic dub siren plunges.

Delay: Mode 11 • BPM Sync: OFF • Rate: 5.2 (~190 ms) • Intensity: 0.98 • Echo Vol: 0.65

Reverb: Drive: Medium • Volume: 0.45 • Tone: 0.0 • Routing: AMB (Series)

Wear: Drive: +6.0 dB • Bias: 0.60 • Splice: 0.40 • Noise: 0.35 • Type: NORM (Type I)

Stereo: Inverted Modulation • Width: 85%

Surf Rock

Recipe 2: Dick Dale 1963 Surf Guitar Twang

Mode: Mode 5 (H1 + REV)

Single slapback head coupled with an overdriven hybrid 4-spring waveguide tank. High transducer drive with dynamic bias sag and the 2.65 kHz coil peak bursts with metallic drip on every pick strike.

Delay: Mode 5 • BPM Sync: OFF • Rate: 1.0 (~60 ms slap) • Intensity: 0.15 • Echo Vol: 0.50

Reverb: Drive: High • Volume: 0.70 • Tone: +0.70 (bright) • Decay: 1.8s • Routing: NRM

Wear: Drive: +3.0 dB • Bias: 0.20 • Motor: 0.15 • Type: NORM (Type I)

Stereo: Dual Mono (100% Phase-Coherent) • Width: 0%

Shoegaze

Recipe 3: Shoegaze / Dream Pop Wall of Shimmer

Mode: Mode 8 (H1 + 2 + REV)

Interlocking dual-head rhythm feeding in series into an extended hybrid spring cavern. Diffuses distorted guitar chords, vocals, and synth arpeggios into an infinite floating cloud.

Delay: Mode 8 • BPM Sync: ON • Sync Div: 1/4 Dotted • Intensity: 0.80 • Echo Vol: 0.75

Reverb: Drive: Medium • Volume: 0.70 • Tone: +0.20 • Decay: 2.8s • Routing: AMB (Series)

Wear: Drive: 0.0 dB • Motor: 0.55 • T.Condition: 0.40 • Type: CrO2 (Type II)

Stereo: Azimuth Offset (8 ms Haas) • Width: 100%

Lo-Fi / Synth

Recipe 4: Lo-Fi Boards of Canada Mellotron Tape

Mode: Mode 1 (H1)

Quad-LFO transport wobble combined with continuous on-tape oxide crinkle, Wallace HF spacing loss, and traveling splice thumps. Turns clean Rhodes pianos and synths into warped 1970s tape loops.

Delay: Mode 1 • BPM Sync: OFF • Rate: 0.0 (slapback) • Intensity: 0.0 • Echo Vol: 0.50

Reverb: Off (Mode 1 bypasses spring tank)

Wear: Motor: 0.75 • T.Condition: 0.65 • Splice: 0.60 • Hum: 0.45 • Noise: 0.50 • Type: NORM

Stereo: Inverted Modulation • Width: 75%

Psychedelic

Recipe 5: Space Rock Kosmische Delay

Mode: Mode 10 (H1 + 3 + REV)

The wide syncopated 'gallop' (Head 1 + Head 3) paired with inductive head-to-head ghost bleed provides the undulating polyrhythmic foundation favored by Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream.

Delay: Mode 10 • BPM Sync: ON • Sync Div: 1/8 Dotted • Intensity: 0.70 • Echo Vol: 0.60

Reverb: Drive: Low • Volume: 0.40 • Tone: -0.20 (warm) • Decay: 1.5s • Routing: NRM

Wear: Drive: +2.0 dB • X-Talk: 0.50 (ghost echoes) • Motor: 0.30 • Type: CrO2 (Type II)

Stereo: Ping-Pong • Width: 100%

Electronic

Recipe 6: Modern EDM Stereo Ping-Pong Stabs

Mode: Mode 4 (H1 + 2)

Tempo-locked rhythmic stabs bouncing across the stereo panorama with crisp 10.5 kHz Chrome Type II tape response and zero low-end mud.

Delay: Mode 4 • BPM Sync: ON • Sync Div: 1/8 Dotted • Intensity: 0.65 • Echo Vol: 0.70

Reverb: Off (Pure Multi-Head Delay)

Wear: Drive: 0.0 dB • Noise: 0.0 • Hum: 0.0 • Motor: 0.10 • Type: CrO2 (Type II)

Stereo: Ping-Pong • Width: 100%

11. Cross-Platform Installation & FAQ

🐧 Linux (x86_64)

Copy Delaytor-3000.clap to ~/.clap/, Delaytor-3000.vst3 to ~/.vst3/, or launch the standalone ./Delaytor-3000 binary directly.

🪟 Windows (x86_64)

Copy Delaytor-3000.clap to C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\, Delaytor-3000.vst3 to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\, or run Delaytor-3000.exe.

🍎 macOS (Universal2: Apple Silicon & Intel)

Copy Delaytor-3000.component to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/ (Logic Pro / GarageBand / MainStage) or Delaytor-3000.clap to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/, then run xattr -cr in Terminal once to clear Gatekeeper quarantine.

Q: Why does pitch glide smoothly when I turn Repeat Rate?

Physical tape capstans have mechanical mass and cannot change velocity instantaneously. Delaytor's 800 ms inertia filter models real DC motor acceleration and braking for authentic pitch dives and Doppler sweeps.

Q: How do I silence runaway self-oscillation immediately?

Click and hold the circular ERASE TAPE button in the upper-right of the delay deck. It zeroes both tape ring buffers and resets all filter memories to silence without clicks or pops.

Q: Why do I hear tape hiss or 50 Hz hum when transport is stopped?

The NOISE and HUM dials model continuous oxide noise and transformer/rectifier induction. Dial both down to 0.0 whenever you want pure digital silence at idle.

Q: Can I use Delaytor 3000 purely as a zero-latency vintage Spring Reverb?

Yes! Turn ECHO VOL down to 0.0, select any reverb-enabled mode (Modes 5–11), and use the Hybrid Reverb controls as a dedicated standalone RE-201 / 4-spring waveguide tank.

12. Complete Parameter Automation Reference

Search and filter all 26 host-automatable Delaytor 3000 parameters below:

ID	Name	Module	Type	Default	Range / Values	Unit	Description
`mode`	Mode (Heads + Reverb)	Delay	Stepped Knob	`1`	1 to 11	—	Selects 1 of 11 multi-head delay and hybrid spring reverb combinations with automatic energy normalization.
`repeat_rate`	Repeat Rate	Delay	Knob	`5.0`	0.0 to 10.0 (30–3000 ms)	ms	Tape motor delay time with 800 ms mechanical capstan inertia for organic analog pitch sweeps and Doppler glides.
`bpm_sync`	BPM Sync	Delay	Toggle	`Off`	On / Off	—	Locks delay repeat rate directly to host DAW transport project tempo.
`sync_division`	Sync Division	Delay	Stepped Knob	`1/4`	1/4, 1/4d, 1/4t, 1/8, 1/8d, 1/8t, 1/16, 1/16d, 1/16t	—	9 musical metric note subdivisions for host-synced tempo delays.
`intensity`	Intensity (Feedback)	Delay	Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.2	—	Feedback loop level. Values above 1.0 initiate self-limiting fast_tanh analog self-oscillation and dub runaway.
`echo_vol`	Echo Volume	Delay	Knob	`0.5`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Wet delay playback level with built-in +3.5 dB analog makeup boost.
`dry_kill`	Dry Kill	Master	Toggle	`Off`	On / Off	—	Completely mutes dry signal for DAW Aux/Send bus routing or 100% wet ambient drone clouds.
`erase_head_bypass`	S.O.S. Mode	Looper	Toggle	`Off`	On / Off	—	Bypasses tape erase head for infinite sound-on-sound overdubbing with 6 kHz demagnetization loss.
`sos_loop`	S.O.S. Loop Length	Looper	Toggle	`Ambient`	Fixed Ambient / Motor Sync	—	Fixed 9.5-second physical tape loop vs Head 3 tempo-synced rhythmic loop.
`erase_tape`	Erase Tape (Panic)	Looper	Momentary	`Off`	Momentary Push	—	Spring-loaded instant silent wipe: zeroes stereo tape buffers and flushes all filter states.
`reverb_drive`	Reverb Drive	Reverb	Stepped Knob	`Med`	Low / Med / High	—	Selects spring driver saturation (1.15x / 2.25x / 4.20x), dynamic grid/supply bias sag, and chirp drip.
`reverb_volume`	Reverb Volume	Reverb	Knob	`0.5`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Wet output level of the zero-latency hybrid convolution + 4-spring waveguide tank.
`reverb_decay`	Reverb Decay	Reverb	Knob	`1.0`	0.1 to 3.0 (~0.45s–5.8s)	s	Reshapes RE-201 IR envelope asynchronously and scales 4 helical spring waveguides (~2.7s at 1.0).
`reverb_tone`	Reverb Tone	Reverb	Knob	`0.0`	-1.0 to +1.0	—	Shapes 240 Hz tank body, 2.65 kHz pickup coil resonance, and 2-pole LPF (1.6 kHz dub to 6.2 kHz surf).
`ambient_reverb`	Ambient Reverb (Series)	Reverb	Toggle	`Off (NRM)`	NRM (Parallel) / AMB (Series)	—	Toggles Parallel (NRM) vs Series (AMB) routing where each delay echo splashes directly into the springs.
`input_drive`	Input Drive	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	-24.0 to +24.0	dB	Pre-amp & Record-Head saturation with 95 Hz magnetic head bump, HF self-erasure, and auto gain comp.
`bias_asymmetry`	Bias / Asymmetry	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Shifts pre-amp, Record-Head & S.O.S. operating point into asymmetric hysteresis for warm 2nd harmonics.
`wow_flutter`	Wow & Flutter (Motor)	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.0	—	4 non-synchronous transport oscillators: Dual Wow (0.52 & 1.31 Hz) + Dual Capstan Flutter (6.3 & 11.1 Hz).
`tape_splice`	Tape Splice	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Physical on-tape joint traveling H1 → H2 → H3 with tension jolt, Wallace spacing-loss dip & bias-step thump.
`tape_condition`	Tape Condition	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Continuous on-tape oxide wear, 2-stage Wallace HF loss, crinkle/azimuth wander, asperity noise & dropouts.
`tape_hiss`	Tape Hiss (Noise)	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Band-limited (160 Hz – 3.4 kHz) oxide & flux-modulated hiss (>85% recorded directly onto moving tape).
`preamp_hum`	Preamp Hum	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Multi-harmonic 50 Hz transformer stray flux and 100/150 Hz bridge rectifier bias ripple.
`crosstalk`	Crosstalk (X-Talk)	Wear	Tweak Knob	`0.0`	0.0 to 1.0	—	Inductive head-to-head ghost bleed (H1 ↔ H2 ↔ H3, up to 14%) and stereo track bleed (L ↔ R, up to 18%).
`tape_type`	Tape Type	Wear	Toggle	`Normal`	NORM (Type I) / CrO2 (Type II)	—	Classic 3.8 kHz ferric oxide with prominent head bump vs 10.5 kHz extended-bandwidth chromium dioxide.
`stereo_mode`	Stereo Mode	Stereo	Stepped Knob	`Dual Mono`	Dual Mono, Inverted Mod, Azimuth, Ping-Pong	—	Spatial topology: phase-coherent mono, 90° quadrature chorus, 8 ms azimuth tilt, or cross-feedback ping-pong.
`stereo_width`	Stereo Width	Stereo	Knob	`1.0`	0.0 to 1.0 (0% to 100%)	%	Continuous Mid/Side stereo width matrix with mathematical mono collapse at 0%.

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