UAD-2 PCIe DSP Accelerator Cards

I'm using my UAD-2 Solo for almost 3 years, never had a single issue with it!
I do mostly rock/metal productions and I find hard to overload it on regular sized projects (30 to 40 channels at 44.1)
I love it!

The UAD2 is simply excellent. each time I buy a new plug I am stunned, never disappointed. At this time I never had overdriven the DSP power and I think you wont need more power until you do symphonic-like projects.

A must have in my DAW

Great DSP card that will give me the virutal studio I always wanted to have. By using this in conjunction with Pro Tools HD Native system, I will be able to switch between a virtual 36 channel SSL and Neve system. In other words the best of all words.
The only thing I am missing now is more channel strip modulations.

Finally, we now can say: It sounds like the real thing!!! Mixing with UAD-2 brings you that solid vintage sound with the felxibility of the digital world!!! Specially love the 1176LN, LA2A and the Neve 88RS...

Jeff Grenier
Musician-producer
Montreal, Canada

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The uad-solo laptop can also be used in your desktop system. Just check out your local computer hardware dealers expresscard readers and ask at uad's customer support for the compatibility before you buy the product! Worked great for me!!

The UAD-2 Quad provides me with all the tools i need to make my tracks pop!

Great analog hardware emulations, true to the originals! Using it all the time troughout my tracks from sculpting my individual sounds to mixing and finally mastering.
It's being used for my classical / acoustic recordings such as choirs, piano, violin etc. as well as creating my own electronic music from deep house to techno. It gives all my recordings the warmth and depth I was allways aiming for and looking forward to using the system live on stage with the new UAD-2 Sattelite system, can't wait for that!
Thanks Universal Audio!

I believe that the products Universal Audio is a kind of a unique offer to get more vivid, rich and warm sound mix in the DAW. I was able to compare FATSO â„¢ Jr. / Sr. Analog Tape Simulator & Compressor Plug-in with its original iron, and the result shocked me. After this experimentation is no any doubt that there was a huge work. I would like to further artistic and technical achievements this team.

Regards Serg.

Hy

you make it possible for a small budget, to make big Sound!

Thx

Hannes

i own Pultec Pro, cambridge eq, pres de-esser, emt 250 n 140, n others uad lets my mixed warmer punchier, i mostly using on vokal club track boost on chest frequency it real silk with other emulation plug in i found thus not natural sound color such uad2 pro pultec, cambridge Eq ilove this one when i do cut frequency n boost in super-hi frequency it sound clear clean n crispy. Press de-esser is offen used this one to removed sibillant such as vocal, guitar, and cymbal, even hi hat sometimes. emt 250 making my space getting bigger and more natural its glueing most my vocal into mixed, its great dark reveberation plate, echo and other chorus stuff are great also. emt 140, when it need bright natural reveberant plate i used this one, great to brighten my space. LA2A most of all i used this one to limit or compress vocal bass or does even colloring individual club track,mostly on guitar recording used much of this one 1176 this are coloring compressor, sometimes i used this for my drum buss compressor, the bleed of drum colorful, great indeed, on recording i pass trough 1176 to compress vocal n bass n accoustic guitar also.
in conclusion uad 2 has great characther that the real the color of tone compare to the real one, before i decide to bought uad2 i did lil secondary - primary research, study from expert review, forum, user, n get ride uad 2 for instant, at first i dont expect much as it said on review n forum, but more than that, uad 2 n all emulation are great, real warm, real silk smooth sound, n uad change everything in digital recording world, makin perfect great quality n cheaper in production, with the real one i to have spend tons of money, with uad 2 it save much of bucks.. i dont know what else to say. thx uad2 u make my life getting better.
regard
edho virdiyan
mixing engineer
(Indonesia)

Made my productions go from good to great with a tenth of the hardware cost.

I upgraded to the UAD2 solo from two of the "vintage" cards, and can't believe I waited so long. The performance is rock solid with Sequoia, and having access to the latest developments for the platform has caused me to fall in love all over again!

UAD 2 – DUO Card
This is the go to piece in any studio setup “Hands Down” whether you’re mixing down or in postproduction. Since all UA plug-ins run off the card, you will never taxes your computers ram. Leaving you plenty of room to run tons of virtual instruments, which in my case I normally do.

UA Plug-ins
if you’re looking to step up you’re game & take your mixes to that next level then I suggest Neve, SSL, Manley, Pultec, Studder, Lexicon, Trident. This is the closest you will ever get to the real thing without breaking your bank on hardware.

My Final Conclusion
Reliability (A+)
Sound Quality (A+)
Your mixes sounding like it was recorded at a major recording studio = (PICELESS)

Hi UA
I Have 2 UAD-1e And 1 UAD-2 Quad Card
That I Use For Mastering,Engineering
The Sonic Quality Is So Perfect I Don't Miss The Hardware
I'll Tell You This When I Leave This Earth
My UAD Cards Will Still Be In My Computer
Perfect Technology Dead On Sonic
Great Job UA!

This is an excellent DSP device.
My DAW will be better than before.
I recommend you UAD-2 QUAD card.because modern track need many EQ and compressors.

UAD-2 DUO it's fantastic, you can have the best processors of the history for a few money. As me, if you can't effort the original because they are very expensive, hard to find and hard to conect and mantenience the UAD is your solution.

powerful and efficient cpu. easy to install driver.add a lot to the sound in a mix (almost like a real hardware comp,eq or any sound rack).

UAD2-Quad is a great product. Regarding sound quality this card and the plug ins hit my home studio a great step forward.
Up to now I didn´t reach the power limit of the card even in complex Cubase projects.
I´m delighted by the stability of the drivers and the software.

Not satisfying items:
Price policy of the latest plug ins seems to get higher and higher.

In the beginnings I had some trouble with my new card. My computer only sometimes recognized the UAD2. Your support treated me like a fool, I only got standard answers to my problem.
In despair I contacted your German distributor. They worked really great and sent me a new card for exchange. Since the exchange I never had this starting problem any more. So the fault was really the card itself.

There were some e-mails with your support. There was no problem to transfer the licences to the new card, but up to now you didn´t succed to delete the old card out of my account. There is only the "System 1" that exists, the "System 2" was the defect card that has been sent back to the distributer.
Of course that is no problem, but in case of real single problems my trust in your support is not the biggest.

At the moment I´m waiting for a special offer for your Studer and Lexicon 224 plug in. I tested the 224 and found it to be great.

Your programmers do a really great job.

Absolument fabuleux ! Impossible désormais de m'en passer. Bravo.

Great plug-ins!

Waiting for the distressor plug-in and vst 64bit uad plug-ins!