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Get the rich sound of the world's most famous compressors.

The Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection gives you the silky warm compression heard on hundreds of hit records from The Beatles and Pink Floyd to countless Motown classics.* Now you can add the same analog "glow" to your vocals, drums, and entire mix with the most accurate plug-in emulations ever made of these one‑of‑a‑kind tube compressors.

Included Versions

UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.

Apollo Realtime & UAD‑2
Runs accelerated on Apollo interfaces and UAD‑2 hardware.

UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11. Go to our UA Support page for system requirements.

  • Give your tracks and mixes classic Fairchild tube warmth and character
  • Add harmonics and punch to vocals, drums, and more using Fairchild’s tube-driven gain control and transformer sections
  • Control your compression easily with simple Wet/Dry, Sidechain Filter, and Headroom controls
  • Enjoy the only accurate emulations of “golden-reference” vintage Fairchilds from Ocean Way Studios

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UAD Quick Tip
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UAD Quick Tip

Learn how to thicken vocals, add aggressiveness to drums, and widen your mixes with the Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection.

Add the Iconic Tone of Two Compressors

Add the Iconic Tone of Two Compressors

The Fairchild 670 and companion, the Fairchild 660, have defined some of popular music’s most revered sounds. Renowned for its aggressiveness, the 660 punches up piano, bass, and guitar, tracks, while the flagship 670 is a full stereo compressor that injects vibe and color onto channels, final mixes, and even masters.

The Closest You Can Get to Vintage Fairchilds in a Plug‑In

The Closest You Can Get to Vintage Fairchilds in a Plug‑In

Far beyond other Fairchild emulations, only the UAD Fairchild Collection is based on accurate circuit models of “golden‑reference” units from legendary Ocean Way Studios, giving you all the rich tube tone of the unattainable iconic hardware.

5-Minute Tip: Joel Hamilton
5-Minute Tip: Joel Hamilton

5-Minute Tip: Joel Hamilton

(Pretty Lights, Highly Suspect)
Add presence and texture to lead vocals with the Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection.

Blend Sounds with the Wet/Dry Mix Control

Blend Sounds with the Wet/Dry Mix Control

The Mix control lets you blend your unprocessed signal with the compressed signal, opening worlds of textural possibilities on everything from a drum bus to a mix bus.

Enhance Drums with Sidechain Filters

Enhance Drums with Sidechain Filters

Punch up your drum bus without triggering the threshold of the compressor with the kick drum, for drums with max impact using the Fairchild's Sidechain Filters.

Add Grit with the Headroom Control

Add Grit with the Headroom Control

The Headroom (HR) control can be increased to make mastering applications a breeze, raising the gain reduction threshold and lowering distortion. Conversely, you can decrease headroom, lowering the gain reduction threshold and raising distortion for grittier textures that work on everything from vocals and drums to guitar and bass.

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*Use of artist names does not constitute official endorsement of Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection software.

Key Features

Includes the mono 660 and stereo 670, each with their own sonic attributes and feature sets
Models entire electronic path, including tube amplifiers and transformers for complete analog color and behavior
Modeled after Ocean Way’s famous, meticulously maintained golden Fairchild channels
Lateral-Vertical mode for stereo imaging and balance control
Includes custom hardware Stereo Sidechain Link mod
Six attack and release Time Constants (plus additional Time Constant variations with Sidechain Link)
Includes all-new “digital only” features: Sidechain filtering, Dry/Wet parallel blend and Headroom
Includes artist presets from Darrell Thorp, Michael Brauer, Ryan West, and more

Customer Reviews

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

Overall Rating

4.8/5
(945)

J. Rojas

February 11, 2025

Fairchild 670 Collection.

This is THE Royal Variable Mu King. The tone this compressor delivers is incredible, it gives exceptional body in the low end and those highs come to the fore, it's great for sustained elements like vocals, bass, but don't be fooled, drums sound amazing, to the point where you can crush them and they still sound amazing. Jazz loves this compressor as much as I love UA. Thanks for this wonderful plugin. ❤️

J. Rojas

January 29, 2025

Fairchild Collection

The beauty of character and tone that the Fairchild collection provides is UNIQUE, it is impressive how it handles the sustain of the audio with those slow releases. Definitely the UA Fairchild emulation is ideal for vocals, bass and drums, giving it a punch without crushing the transients. Definitely a must have.

R. Reyes Taveras

January 16, 2025

magnificent plugin

excellent tool with unique color satisfied

D. Betances

January 14, 2025

HAPPY OWNER!!!

Although I’ve worked with an original hardware version of this compressor, this plugin definitely has a “vintage” sound/vibe. In my opinion, tone wise and behavior/response wise, it’s much better than the other plugin versions of the same emulation. The added features are also a great bonus.

V. DILEO

January 7, 2025

Works Good

Works Good & Sounds Great.
HowEver; As with All UAD Plugins, I Does Not Work When You Loose Your Internet Service.

A. Victoria

December 11, 2024

The sound I always want to get

I always want to get a leveled and present sound without the feel an evident compression, now, finally, I got it!

H. Acero

December 6, 2024

Solo lo probe una vez y me enamoré

Soy advenedizo en el mundo de la Producción Musical. Sé que los compresores son muy importantes, así que, solo lo probé y, realmente el sonido que me dio los Fairchild, realmente me fascinó.

J. Haim

December 6, 2024

Great Sound!

It sounds amazing. Definitely best emulation of Fairchild till today!

e. madi

December 1, 2024

The great gluing glow for mixing and mastering

I love uad Fairchild, for me it's the most greatest mastering limiter mix drum buss comp mixer processor enhancement, for glowing glue the multitracks music mix on the master mix buss stereo out, for to glue everything together, I'm so excited and happy for the results, I love you more uad

G. Spiridion

November 26, 2024

Great Plugin, Great Sound

Amazing sounds!!! Indispensable on my productons.

L. Predator

November 20, 2024

Coleção Fairchild Tube Limiter

Nunca vou conseguir chegar perto de um Fairchild original , mas em relação com as marcas mais conhecidas, tenho Waves ,etc... Esse UAD Fairchild é incomparável. Mágico!

e. madi

November 20, 2024

The great gluing glow for mixing and mastering

I love uad Fairchild, for me it's the most greatest mastering limiter mix drum buss comp mixer processor enhancement, for glowing glue the multitracks music mix on the master mix buss stereo out, for to glue everything together, I'm so excited and happy for the results, I love you more uad

i. copeland

November 19, 2024

If your here , You know what’s up

“Apollo Dual , Quad ,
Heritage Edition , and A Nuemann
103 or 87 mic / Beyer Dynamic Cans
/an Akai MPC live 2 / Mac Book Pro
Logic & Luna
Abelton

“Don’t play around”

IndioPoet

D. Skeel

October 13, 2024

It’s a Fairchild and it’s amazing

The Fairchild is a great compressor, legendary and this sounds like the hardware. If you aren’t familiar it will take a learning curve but being able to compress the center different from the side which is what made this thing famous is amazing, the tone and what it does to your music is worth it…..learn it use it and get it if you want great results

t. ecuvillon

October 4, 2024

i love it

just put it with the default preset at last place on the master bus chain.
My classical solo piano is better with it :)

S. Schwartz

October 1, 2024

The Fairchild 670 . . . Wow!

Really, really pleased with how the Fairchild 670 plugin adds a new dimension to my voiceover tracks in my podcast as well as the mastering bus. It's very subtle, but discernibly wonderful! Like the icing and cherry atop a delicious cake.

T. Blanch

July 27, 2024

Smooth

The Fairchild just makes everything sound so smooth. I love it, and with a tweak of the input gain it just creates a subtle texture to my mixes and sounds.

D. MixLab

July 16, 2024

Fairchild

The Beast

K. Purwin

June 24, 2024

Fairchild

Wspaniały! Jestem Bardzo Zadowolony!

D. Black

June 17, 2024

Fairchild Duo

Great compression and modified sounds that only the Fairchild can add. It's still king of the compressor family for good reason.