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The TVHS Black Friday deal takes 79% off this tape-transport and video-hardware emulator from Thenatan Audio, bringing it to $10 until Nov 19, 2026. It runs on Mac and Windows.
TVHS puts your mix through two machines: a worn VHS deck and the CRT television wired to it. The maker says it is built from how that hardware actually behaves, not from a "vintage" preset curve.
The tape side starts with Wobble, which drives wow, flutter and scrape from filtered noise instead of a looping LFO. A long pad never falls into a repeating cycle.
Dropout uses a random Poisson process, so level dips clump and leave gaps rather than ticking along a grid. No two dips share the same depth or length.
Saturate is a tape record-amp drive with matched pre-emphasis and de-emphasis. Breathe models VHS Hi-Fi compander mistracking: the noise floor swells after each transient, then sinks back.
Noise is tape hiss gated by the programme, so it follows the music instead of sitting flat over silence. Two noise beds (A/B) give you different hiss character.
A single Tone knob blends between the broad AFM hi-fi sound and the thin, tape-edge linear one. Four changes happen at once: the frequency range gets tighter, the low mids pick up a resonant bump around the head, a misaligned azimuth carves out the presence region, and a wide stretch of the upper mids rolls off. The television side contributes Headswitch, the field-rate glitch caused by a VHS drum changing heads once for every video field. Flyback adds CRT line-transformer whine plus mains hum, amplitude-modulated together.
Both effects switch between NTSC and PAL. Field rate, scan-line frequency and hum frequency follow the chosen standard.
Ten impulse responses, captured from real tape and video hardware, shape the character before you touch another knob. The maker suggests picking one first, then dialling the rest against it.
Width models tape-track crosstalk and collapses to full mono at zero. Mix blends the processed chain against your dry signal, and Output trims the master level with twin circular meters for left and right.
There are 60 factory presets in six categories: Clean Transfer, Home Dub, Rental Copy, Tracking Error, Degraded and Dead Channel. Each is a full snapshot of all eleven effects, the impulse response, video standard, mix and output trim.
Every effect has its own bypass, a bypassed panel dims at once, and bypass states are saved with each preset. Every control is automatable, including those bypass states.
Hover any control and a caption line explains it. The interface resizes by dragging, and Ctrl-click resets it to 100%. The maker says the modeled effects use lightweight noise-driven math, so CPU load stays low with everything engaged. Activation is by serial number, with no dongle.
Yes. The TVHS Black Friday deal takes 79% off Thenatan Audio's VHS and CRT emulator plugin, bringing it to $10. The offer ends Nov 19, 2026.
TVHS includes eleven modeled effects, 10 real tape and video hardware impulse responses, 60 factory presets in six categories, per-effect bypass, Width, Mix and Output controls, and twin circular level meters for left and right.
The maker says earlier VHS plugins only gave you a tape emulation. TVHS adds the television half as well: Headswitch glitches and CRT Flyback whine with mains hum, switchable between NTSC and PAL.
TVHS is a plugin for Mac and Windows. Activation uses a serial number, not a dongle. The maker says its modeled effects use lightweight noise-driven math, so CPU load stays low even with everything engaged.
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