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Fender '55 Tweed Deluxe

Fender '55 Tweed Deluxe

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

$49$199

$49$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.

Get the Sound of a Vintage "Golden Unit" Amp

UA chose two bone-stock 1955 tweed Deluxe “golden units” to be emulated, capturing every single component — from speaker paper and heat dissipation, to filter caps and transformers — giving you the essential ingredients for expressive, easy-to-record sounds.

Choose from Three Classic Speakers

The ’55 Tweed Deluxe plug-in gives you three famous “hot rod” speaker mods, including the stock 1955 Jensen P12R for jangly treble and thick bottom, a 25-watt Celestion for thicker more aggressive mids, and a JBL-D120F that stays clean and pristine with more air and presence.

Explore Expertly Placed Mics

The ’55 Tweed Deluxe plug-in offers expertly placed multi-mic tones with a collection of legendary mics. Mix and match with a rare '60s Beyer M160 and white Sennheiser MD-421 mics, a modern Royer R-121, and a hand-picked vintage Neumann U67 from Ocean Way Studios.

Get Jaw-Dropping Accuracy with Unison™ Technology

Harnessing UA’s Unison technology, the Fender '55 Tweed Deluxe plug-in gives you the impedance, gain staging, and circuit behaviors that make the tweed Deluxe one of the most recorded amps in history. And like the original, you can plug into any of the amp’s four inputs — or "jump" the inputs — for tons of different tones.

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

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. Authorization of UAD-2 hardware is managed by the UAD Meter & Control Panel Application.

Check our Knowledge Base for additional questions

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