Comparison

Roast Beef vs FakeTake

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Roast Beef1 screens
FakeTake2 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Roast Beef versus FakeTake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoast BeefFakeTake
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (15 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better7
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCaelum AudioRob Jackson

Customer experience

Roast Beef

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

FakeTake

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Roast Beef

No in-app purchases

None

FakeTake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roast Beef free?
Roast Beef costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is FakeTake free?
FakeTake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Roast Beef or FakeTake?
FakeTake is rated higher. Roast Beef averages 4.8 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while FakeTake averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Roast Beef or FakeTake have ads?
Neither Roast Beef nor FakeTake shows ads.

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