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Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection
Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

4.9 (851)

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

  • 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
  • Tweak compression easily with simple Wet/Dry, Sidechain Filter, and Headroom controls
  • Enjoy the only accurate emulations of “golden-reference” vintage Fairchilds

Runs natively on your macOS or Windows computer, or accelerated on Apollo audio interfaces or UAD Accelerators. View full system requirements.

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

$299

$299

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Discover 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 emulations ever made of these iconic tube compressors.

Add the Iconic Tone of Two Limiters

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

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.

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

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

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

What They Say

I'm blown away. [The UAD Fairchild Collection plug-ins] perfectly model not only the compression behavior, but the actual sound. This is a big step forward.

Peter Mokran

Christina Aguilera, The Flaming Lips

I use the Fairchild 670 plug-in on parallel drum buses in lat/vert mode to enhance the tone, add depth, and control the stereo image in ways that no other plug-in can.

Ryan West

Eminem, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z

The much sought after Fairchild 660 and 670 are now accessible to UAD/Apollo users, allowing them to enjoy an audio treat that had previously only been available to a select few.

Steve Levine

Culture Club, Beach Boys, Ziggy Marley

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851 reviews
  • RT
    Robbie T.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 hour ago
    Perfect for mastering!

    I use this very lightly and it makes a massive difference when getting a song mastered to the right level

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  • SP
    simon p.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 hours ago
    The two models are VERY different!

    I imagine a lot of Fairchild buyers will be looking for Beatles-style compression and this delivers. It's fantastic on vocals and drums. But one thing I learned from a random YT video, which the UA manual only hints at, is the 670 version is noticeably different from the 660. (I'd always thought it was just a stereo version of the 660.) You can't get that Ringo-style snap on the snare with the 670, only the 660. The 670 is much gentler and perhaps would work well on busses and full mixes. Yet to try this, however.

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  • MV
    Manuel V.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 hours ago
    Best compressor out there

    By far, the best compressor out there - with loads of character and a sound unlike any other.

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  • SA
    Stephan A.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    6 hours ago
    Fairchild

    Great tool

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  • SS
    Stas S.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    7 hours ago
    Fairchild Tube Limiter

    Very good, perfect sound

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware is required.

Yes, 14-day plug-in demos are available. Find eligible plug‑ins

We provide three activations per license. We support activation on your computer or on an iLok USB key.

For every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both upon purchase, or the option to get it through an upgrade.

Native plug-ins are supported on macOS and Windows systems. See our Native UAD System Requirements article for full system requirements. An iLok account is required for managing your native plug-in licenses. We support iLok USB keys for portability, but one is not required.

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