Roast Beef vs FakeTake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roast Beef
This audio effect app adds a "beefy" distortion to your music. It features three controls for sub-bass enhancement, noise texture, and drive for aggressive sound shaping. It functions as a standalone app or an AUv3 plugin for hosts like GarageBand.
- Sub-bass enhancement
- Noise texture control
- Drive distortion
- Standalone application
- AUv3 plugin support
- Works with GarageBand
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What’s better in the Christmas Season than a piping hot serving of Roast Beef? If Beef was the Ghost of Christmas Present, then Tiny-Roast-Beef-Tim is here to beef up your drums, roast your basses and cook your tracks into oblivion. With three straight-to-the-point controls, invigorate the low end with the ‘Sub’ control, add texture and presence with the ‘Noise’ control and lastly boost and distort your music into beefy goodness with the ‘Drive’ Control. Roast Beef is both a stand-alone application as well as an AUv3 plugin, meaning it works within iOS and iPadOS hosts such as GarageBand.
FakeTake
This audio effect plugin creates the illusion of an overdubbed track using a combination of short delay, stereo processing, and modulation. It's designed to enhance instruments like guitar and vocals by adding depth and width to your mix.
- Automatic Double Tracker effect
- Adjustable delay time
- Modulation with drift control
- Variable stereo width
- Standalone and AUv3 host compatibility
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FakeTake Double Tracker Plugin (AUv3) FakeTake is an audio effect plugin that can run standalone, or in any AU compatible host application such as Logic or GarageBand. Overview FakeTake is a tribute to the old "automatic double tracker" studio trick. The idea is that ADT creates the illusion of the same part, overdubbed again (a "fake take") which can work great with many instruments, especially guitar and vocals. There are various approaches for achieving this effect, but most use a short delay, a bit of stereo processing and possibly some modulation applied to the delay. FakeTake uses all three! Parameters Active - Toggles the effect On or Off. Delay - Sets the base delay time of the "fake take". Low settings can be thought of as "tighter", and higher values, "looser", going up to almost a slap-back echo effect. Drift - Varies the amount of delay time modulation. This is applied to the original and processed signal. At zero, no modulation is applied to the dry signal. Spread - Varies the stereo width of the ADT effect. At maximum, the original and delayed signals are panned hard-left and hard-right respectively. At zero, both are dead-centre. Spread can also be used to create space in a mix. For example, apply spread to a guitar track to leave room for vocals in the middle. If the name sounds familiar, FakeTake is an improved and simplified version of the FAKE TAKE ADT module developed for Voltage Modular by Waverley Instruments. Please do take a look at my other AudioUnits on the App Store if you can spare the time. Supporting paid apps allows me to release free ones as a little thankyou from time to time. For more info and support please visit: www.waverley-instruments.com/robjackson
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FakeTake at 100% against Roast Beef's 50%. FakeTake also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
FakeTake is free to download; Roast Beef costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FakeTake holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Roast Beef's written reviews are positive against 100% of FakeTake's.
| Parameter | Roast Beef | FakeTake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 7 |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Caelum Audio | Rob Jackson |
Customer experience
Roast Beef
FakeTake
In-app purchases
Roast Beef
No in-app purchases
FakeTake
No in-app purchases









