Overview
What is WatKat?
WatKat - A VST plugin designed to be a tribute to Charlie Watkins, inventor of the tape echo
In depth
A closer look at WatKat
WatKat is a digital “clone” of a Wem Watkins “Custom” Copicat. It sounds very lo-fi, noisy, irregular. When you turn it off and leave the tape loaded, the tape bends in proximity of the capstan, and this turns into a periodic pitch fall during echo playback; plus, it gets hot and the background hum gets worse in time... you should turn it off every now and then; the tape is never completely erased, and the capstan motor flutters... and it gets worse if you touch it while it's spinning; heads tend to get dirty very soon, infact you should clean them often. This is true for the actual hardware unit, and for the digital simulation as well! Take the WatKat VST plugin for a test drive and see what it's really capable of!
Verdict
Should you download WatKat?
WatKat runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 799 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Audio Video.
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At a glance
WatKat specifications
- Publisher
-
Guido Scognamiglio
- Last updated
- May 1, 2026
- License
- Freeware
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- File size
- 799 KB
- Price
- Free
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- 730
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