
But how do you go about achieving this mix of grit, lo-fi and warble? There are plenty of excellent plugins like XLN Audio’s RC-20 Retro Color that are designed as a one-stop retrofying shop, but you can also achieve similar results with freeware plug-ins.

Think failing analogue synthesizers, VHS players with broken tracking, and cassettes that have been dubbed over one too many times.


Genres like synthwave and retrowave re-imagine the 80s through a haze of woozy nostalgia.
