Spaced Out $69

Baby Audio continue their journey into new realms with a reverb unit that reinvents a classic for the 21st century… and some

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In a relatively short space of time, Baby

Audio have gone from producing the quirky, simple and much-loved ‘New York sound’ I Heart New York parallel compressor to some of the best plugins in the business. Comeback Kid and Parallel Aggressor both got fantastic scores in and a cutdown version of the former – Baby Comeback – proved to be one of our most popular giveaways ever back in August last year. “We want to simplify workflow and make mix tools that inspires instant creativity and experimentation,” the company’s founder Caspar Bock told us then. “And where you don’t need to read a manual to get started.”

That ethos is very evident in the company’s new plugin, Spaced Out, but it also follows a kind of ‘what if’ path, that being, as Baby Audio say:

“How would we design a Space Echo today, almost 50 years after the original, with the abundance of computer power and algorithmic complexity at our disposal?”

A new echo

How indeed? The Space Echo is Roland’s muchloved vintage hardware effect that has, in numerous ways, appeared in software but more as an emulation. There are options from Arturia, Universal Audio, AudioThing and many more, but Baby Audio’s take is more a re-imagining than emulation; take the original’s forwardthinking and fun ethos and place it slap bang into the 21st century inventing something new along the way. Those that want pure recreation will have to back up to those companies mentioned above as this is as much about breaking new ground as it is treading old.