8-Bit Guitar Tapes

8-Bit Guitar Tapes – Lo-Fi Guitar Chords with Tape & 8-Bit Warmth

Guitar chord one-shots degraded and warped through 8-bit sampling & analog tape processing.

🎛️ 96 Chords Processed in 4 Unique Ways for 672 Total Samples 
🎞️ American Fender Telecaster + Casio SK-1 8-Bit Grit + Analog Tape Echo
🛠 100% Royalty-Free | WAV Format | Works in Any DAW

What’s Inside?

To capture the purest tones for processing, we recorded 96 guitar chord strums directly (DI out) from a Fender Telecaster through a Roland JC-40 amp instead of miking the amp. This ensured a clean, high-fidelity signal, making it perfect for resampling into 8-bit textures and tape saturation.

✅ Major Chords for every note
✅ Minor Chords for every note
✅ Major 7th Chords for every note
✅ Minor 7th Chords for every note
✅ Each chord recorded twice for natural variation

Then, we processed them across three unique sonic dimensions, using a special octave resampling method to bring out the full character of the Casio SK-1’s downsampling artifacts:

🎛️ Hi-Fi Clean Guitar (DI Recording) – Pristine and processed using only the subtle vibrato from the amp.
🎛️ Lo-Fi (Casio SK-1) – Each chord was individually sampled into the SK-1 in a medium octave, then downsampled an octave lower to capture the SK-1’s natural degradation. To restore the original pitch while keeping the lo-fi character, we processed these samples back up an octave using an advanced resampling technique in Ableton.
🎛️ Lo-Fi + Tape (Casio SK-1 to Tape) – The SK-1 samples (both octaves) were recorded to tape, adding warmth, compression, and subtle but tasteful warble.
🎛️ Lo-Fi + Tape Echo (Casio SK-1 + Echofix Tape Echo) – The SK-1 tape samples were further processed with the Echofix Tape Echo, creating spacious, space-age tails and overtones.

With this extensive chord library, you’ll have endless inspiration for lo-fi beats, dreamy soundscapes, and nostalgic melodies.

📂 File Format: High-Quality WAV (44.1 kHz, 24-bit)
🎛️ Compatibility: Works in any sampler or DAW that uses wav files (which is all of them) (read our how to article here)

🔥 Why I Made This Pack

I'm an artist first. These samples were made for me to use on my own projects. I love being able to experiment with chord progressions that I wouldn't normally think of, and being able to just drag them into a sampler makes it so easy to learn and experiment. Plus nothing sounds better to me than the guitar > SK1 > Tape Echo signal chain. This pack is gonna save me so much time from having to process entire songs like this like I usually do. No one is making sounds like this, so I had to do it.

🎯 Who is This Pack For?

✅ Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Producers – Add warm, warbly textures to your beats.
✅ Dream Pop / Shoegaze Artists – Perfect for lush, hazy atmospheres. These sound insane with insane amounts of reverb.
✅ Vaporwave & Chillwave Creators – Nostalgic guitar tones with authentic 8-bit grit.
✅ Indie / Experimental Producers – I make indie music, and I made these to use all over my next album. These sounds are super unique but pleasant at the same time which is hard to find these days.

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