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Apollo

Fender '55 Tweed Deluxe

4.6 (606)

Get the bloom, chime, and grind of Leo Fender’s most iconic amplifier.

  • Use your Apollo to track through the only authentic emulation of a 1955 Fender tweed Deluxe amplifier — with no latency
  • Hear the results of an exhaustive two-year R&D project — the first real guitar amp emulation
  • Easily track perfect studio amp tones with different microphone combinations and placements — without phase issues
  • Re-amp previously recorded tracks with any UAD-2 hardware

Runs on macOS or Windows. Requires an Apollo audio interface or UAD Accelerator. View full system requirements.

Fender '55 Tweed Deluxe

$199

$199

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Get the Bloom, Chime, and Grind of Leo Fender’s Most Iconic Amp

Vintage Fender 5E3 tweed Deluxe amplifiers are the Holy Grail of tone, with pristine clean sounds at low volume, and sweet overdrive to full-on tube saturation when cranked. Designed by Universal Audio and endorsed by Fender, the ’55 Tweed Deluxe plug-in gives you every nuance of this historic amp.

What They Say

The UAD Fender ‘55 Tweed Deluxe plug-in is one of the best emulations I've heard. The controls respond nicely and the options for mic balance and off-axis positioning make it very versatile.

Mick Glossop

Frank Zappa, Van Morrison, UFO

The UAD Fender ‘55 Tweed Deluxe is my favorite amp emulation. Finally a plug-in that gets the crunchy power tube distortion just right.

Peter Mokran

Christina Aguilera, The Flaming Lips

The UAD Fender '55 Tweed Deluxe is the best sounding guitar amp emulation available.

Chris Coady

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, Future Islands

Reviews

4.6
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
Based on 606 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 481 Total 4 star reviews: 62 Total 3 star reviews: 20 Total 2 star reviews: 20 Total 1 star reviews: 23
90%would recommend this product
606 reviews
  • T
    TA
    Verified Reviewer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Yesterday
    THE GREATEST AMP SIM OF THE GREATEST AMP

    Do I need to say more? The Tweed Deluxe 5e3 is the greatest amp of all time and UAD has done such a great job that it's no different than the real thing plus with endless recording options. I have fallen in love with this plugin in the studio and you will too. Trust me when I say that you don't even need the real thing when this is available. Because this IS the REAL thing. It is so good that i'm just going to call the real amp from the 50s "The Analog Version" of this plugin. There is literally nothing that you wouldn't be able to do with this that you would with the analog version. The possibilities might even be more.

    I don't know how they do it but UAD has done it again.

    It doesn't even matter if you like fender amps or the tweed era amps you need to get this plugin! What will you lose by owning the greatest recording amp of all time with multiple legendary speakers changing themselves in seconds, I mean how could you be disappointed? It is a $5-10k amp for this price without the hassles of the analog plus more options and easier use, it should probably be more expensive than the analog but here we are in the modern world living the modern times. Do you record music? Do you listen to music? Do you play the guitar? If your answer is yes to any of those questions then go for it.

  • EM
    Emanuele M.
    Verified Buyer
    I do not recommend this product
    Rated 2 out of 5 stars
    3 weeks ago
    Meh

    Not worth it tbh

  • KF
    Keith F.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Awesome, absolutely awesome!!!!

    I built a Tweed Deluxe clone, which I still have about 17 years ago, so I say this being extremely familiar with the amp... My one wish would be a ceramic Jensen speaker model like a C12N, as that's the Neil Young speaker.

    There's a weird phenomenon that happens with a Tweed Deluxe. Many people say it's the "interactive tone controls", but it's actually an effect of the cathode bypass cap on V1 not being big enough to filter down to DC. What happens if, you plug into the bright channel, keep the volume all the way down, the turn up the volume on the normal channel and you hear this bassy muffled sound. What is happening is.... The cathode of the bright channel and normal channel share the same cathode resistor and cap. The cathode of V1B,, in this case, is driving V1A with a 25uf cap to ground or a low pass filter creating this muffled sound. On a Plexi or Bassman, the same setup is seen, but the cap is 250uf or 330uf, so it filters everything out. The point is .. This characteristic is modelled well... And you can use this as a primitive bass boost control.

  • RL
    rhud l.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Oh my God

    So good.

  • RB
    Rob B.
    Verified Buyer
    I do not recommend this product
    Rated 1 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Came up as a sale item

    Not an Apollo user but got this as a sale item, needless to say it’s not useable this the one star. Guess I need to double check every item now

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, you’ll need an Apollo audio interface, UAD-2 Satellite, or UAD-2 PCIe card to run these plug-ins, using the onboard DSP. The plug-ins run on the hardware itself, without adding strain to your computer’s CPU. In an Apollo, onboard DSP processing allows you to run realtime UAD plug-ins with near-zero latency, and even record that processing directly to your DAW.

Yes, you can start a fully functional 14-day demo from any plug-in bundled with the UAD software. Simply click “Start Demo”, and start using it in your DAW.

UAD-2 licenses follow the hardware, it does not matter which computer they are connected to. You can have up to six UAD-2 devices registered to a system in your Universal Audio account, which share those licenses. See UAD-2 Plug-In Licensing Explained for full details. Authorisation of UAD-2 hardware is managed by the UAD Meter & Control Panel Application.

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