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Manley Tube Preamp

Manley Tube Preamp

4.5 (188)

Get clear, smooth Manley tube sound for your vocals, bass, and more.

  • Give vocals and other instruments the smooth, clear sound of Manley's Class‑A tube mic preamp
  • Record "through" the iconic Manley preamp in real time using Apollo audio interfaces
  • Add tube detail and rich complex circuit behaviors to make your tracks come alive
  • Control Apollo mic preamp gain staging and impedance from the Manley Preamplifier plug‑in via Unison™ technology

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

Manley Tube Preamp

$149

$149

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Get Clear, Smooth Manley Tube Sound for your Vocals, Bass, and More

Manley® tube mic preamps are a modern classic, adding unmistakable clarity and detail to any signal that passes through them. Now, you can easily get the harmonically "alive" Class‑A sound in a simple Unison™-equipped plug-in, perfect for Apollo audio interface users.

Capturing a Modern Classic with Unison

The UAD Manley Tube Preamp plug-in gives you all the clarity and sheen of a Manley hardware preamp, faithfully modeling every stage of its overbuilt circuit with accuracy. Harnessing UA’s Unison technology, this plug-in blurs the lines between analog and digital, giving you all of the hardware’s impedance, gain staging “sweet spots,” and sonic DNA.

Give Your Tracks High‑End Gloss

Like the hardware, the Manley Tube Preamp plug-in adds smooth "hi‑fi" texture. Just drop it into the Unison slot of your Apollo interface’s Console or LUNA software to inject instant life to vocals and bass, punch up acoustic guitars and drums, or add forwardness to synths.

What They Say

The UAD Manley Tube Preamp is my new go‑to for adding warmth and gain.

Darrell Thorp

Beck, Radiohead, Foo Fighters

Reviews

4.5
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
Based on 188 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 152 Total 4 star reviews: 16 Total 3 star reviews: 1 Total 2 star reviews: 1 Total 1 star reviews: 18
89%would recommend this product
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188 reviews
  • DB
    Dennis B.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 days ago
    Great

    Pre amp unison is the best for home an studio

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  • MB
    Michael B.
    Verified Buyer
    I do not recommend this product
    Rated 1 out of 5 stars
    1 week ago
    Manley Tube Preamp

    Completed installation in the akai mpc and the very next day it fell out of the software and I'm having a problem reinstalling it, this is very disappointing.

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  • JS
    John S.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 week ago
    Just what needed.

    It's a great little pre amp. It's nice clean & if I want a little bite on a line instrument, like a synth I switch it to mic.

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  • C
    Cristian
    Verified Buyer
    I do not recommend this product
    Rated 1 out of 5 stars
    1 week ago
    UA Connect Issues

    Bought this a couple of days ago and I can't even use it yet because there are some issues between UA Connect and ILok. It's not the first time I have to create a ticket in order to activate a plugin . I had the same problem last time because apparently expired trials are preventing plugins to be installed or something like that. As much I love your plugins, you definitely need to improve this things.

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  • NS
    Nikolai S.
    Verified Buyer
    I do not recommend this product
    Rated 2 out of 5 stars
    4 weeks ago
    so so

    Can't really get it to sound good. Maybe I'm missing something?

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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.

Check our Knowledge Base for additional questions

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