UAD Essentials Edition
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UAD Essentials Edition
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E. Buckley
Smoothest Compression Plug I Know
Back in the 90s I was interning at a studio in midtown Manhattan where an La-2A sat at the bottom of the rack. The young in house engineer never touched it but one day an older gentleman was mixing an album there and turned that lonely La-2A on. I had absolutely no idea what it did so I asked him and he just said, "Its butter." LOL
He ran some bass through it, getting 2-3dBs of compression. He told me to sit in the engineers seat and listen while he bypassed the unit on and off. The difference was subtle but noticeable and dearly missed when bypassed. A few days later we recorded vocals and ran all of them through the La-2A. The vocals were being compressed 5-10dB and it sounded magical. Now almost 30 years have passed and I own this plug but plan to purchase the UA re-issue in 2022.
This plug in is really close to the hardware in that it captures the warmth of the hardware but its not as smooth when you start to get into the 5dBs and more of compression range. Don't get me wrong, when I want the smoothest plug compression, this is the one I reach for. It captures that harmonic warmth I remember from that lonely hardware unit that sat at the bottom of the rack back in the day. I use this on vocals for every song. Its the last in the chain and most of the time its a mere 1-2 dBs of compression that I'm going for. Its a gentle hug or "butter" as that visiting engineer explained. The plug falls short once you get into that 5 dB compression territory where you can start to hear it. The hardware is transparent. Thats why I'm giving this 4 out of 5 stars but honestly, for the price, this plug is amazing but I have to be honest, that hardware unit was truly magical and once I do get it in my studio, it will go to the top of the rack where it belongs.
P. Slater
Awesome
I got this free thinking I wouldn’t use it and I like it more than the Neve 73
F. Brocchini
Superb
fantastic product!
P. Slater
Such a difference
I am used to the Waves version and people always told me there was a difference. I was so surprised at how much better it sounds. Waves is very good but this is just perfect
J. Lindberg
Shine and movement
Can be used for practically any instrument and vocals. Gives a warm complex shine and a sence oc movement in the sound.
R. Kirk
Nice Tone, Easy to Use
To my ears this sounds as good, if not better than the EMT plate, and is easier to dial in quickly and nail tone that works.
E. Fritsch
Galaxy
Yes. Buy it.
G. Grinko
Good choice for mixing & live
This product is great and powerfull for any music mixing and live perfomance! Iam using this when I mixing piano and drums sound!
Thanks!
A. Mikheev
Tape delay with no boundaries
Flexible and smooth.
L. Martella
Great sound
Great plug in, it softens the track where you put it, it also works just by inserting it without turning any knobs.
M. O'Brien
This is what I have been looking for.
Excellent little gem. I have been looking for something a little brighter than the amazing Neve 1084. The 1084 is warm and very refined. This is similar with a different brighter sound. It perfectly fills that EQ gap.
P. Räisänen
Warm reverb
Lush reverb sound for every type of genre!
T. TANK
I love it
Simple and powerful. Greetings from Czech Republic
C. Hlavka
Forward sound
you can here the source come forward. I like it. Can dial in the subtleness with input and output controls very simple.
K. Thabthimthong
WoW!!!
Great sound just put it on a track without rotate any knob. Get better sound when choose some preset from UAD.
K. Thabthimthong
Great tube sound.
The sound very similar analog appliance. I love this sound.
R. Lowe
Solid
There are many options now for DAW plug-in channel strips. In my experience the Century Tube channel strip seems to land right in the middle of the sonic fairway. Not too aggressive or edgy, and not so transparent that I don’t find it useful. If a track has been recorded well but just requires a tool to help find its place in the mix, this channel strip has been a great place for me to start…and often where I end.
M. Fletcher
Great on electric guitar
I already have the EMT 140 which is great. But I bought this because this is the reverb that is on my OX Box and I wanted to be able to record from my OX without reverb and add it during the mix. I can see why UA chose this reverb for the OX. It is more neutral than the EMT 140 but no less stellar. Just a different flavor that happens to work great with my amp and guitr
P. Wright
Flawless!
A Flawless emulation of the Pultec EQ. There's only one reason to get this plug-in... ...Character!!!
B. Spence
Simply is great
Purchased this a couple of weeks ago and like the simple controls and how easy it is to set up; on top of that it sounds great. I used for DI with Jazzmaster trying to get a "Motown" style guitar sound and it worked well for this. Also with DI P-Bass. I've used with a Male vocal works good. Sorta a Swiss army knife.