i am currently working on a professional tape unemulation, all i can tell for now is that it will be under $1000.

Und das Gegenteil von einem Ungeheuer ist ein Geheuer, aber das wusstet ihr sicher schon.

 

I just got this one for free: Pulsar Audio W495. According to the manual, it's "Inspired" by the Neumann W495b EQ: "This EQ was used in Neumann broadcast consoles as well as in Neumann VMS mastering consoles and vinyl presses. It's said that 90% of vinyl records produced between the 1970s and 1990s were mastered with these Neumann modules!"

I threw it on an Synthwave joint I was working on, and I liked it a lot, espeically in the lows and highs. I don't know if I would spend 99 € on it, but definitely worth checking out.

 

If only they had known that you actually need the complexity of an SPL PQ or a Weiss EQ1 to be able to master properly.