UAD Sound City Studios Plug‑In
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UAD Sound City Studios Plug-In
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M. Brown
Love it!
Now I sound like Dave Grohl! Nice.
A. Tullos
Can’t wait to hear it
Doesn’t want to load. Seems to have a licensing bug that won’t let it load. Still waiting for tech support to fix that
T. Poe
Great plugin… needs an update to help your CPU
This is an amazing plugin that is wayyyyy more than a reverb plugin. With this in mind, it is still WAY too cpu intensive for more than a few instances even on M2 Pro silicon hardware. Unacceptable for the price and native only specifics. I sincerely hope this gets updated to reduce strain.
J. Philippi
Super realistic room sound
I really cannot understand reviewers here who hear weird phasing and nulling issues. The sound of this plugin is superb. Super punchy drums, every instrument I run through this simulation just sounds better and fits in the mix suddenly. CPU usage is surprisingly low in my opinion, and native only is absolutely no problem for me. someone wrote there's an unpleasant boom with kick drums... well I think that's exactly what this studio sounds like and what it's famous for. I don't think that UA thought: let's just put in some weird and bad sounding boominess in this haha..
All in all, this one is really really amazing and instantly replaced Ocean Way and various sources. Well done UA
A. Reverberi
Great, but CPU heavy
I love it, great way to add space and depth into your mix
T. Spielmacher
It's Sound City!
What's not to love! Very pleased so far and totally excited to have a little bit of Sound City in my recordings... Magic! For me a dream emulation .
N. Edwards
What?!?!
Absolutely amazing. Such a useable plug in. Makes everything sound wicked.
光. 杉
The desire to produce is increased tenfold.
I really felt like I was in the studio making sounds. It's just fun. The value of this plug-in is very high.
F. San Filippo
Holy buckets.
Sounds great on drums and guitar re-amping.
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AMAZING
I have no issue with the cost what a insane plugin
j. smith
It’s awesome
It legitimately sounds like recording in a large room. It makes drums sound huge, acoustics sounds spacious, and the cabs are great for electric guitar. It won’t be the right thing for every track in the mix, but definitely a good tool to have in the box.
A. Hunt
Iykyk
This will open the window on your mixes. Iconic again. It is native only so you’ll need to download UADx.
R. Araya Letelier
A great room
I'm still discovering its potential, but so far so good. It's the room ambience I always wanted to achieve with convolution reverb, but it's also a lot more thanks to the re-mic option, which is not something I'll always use, but it's been great with piano and sax.
J. Bru
Grandes resultados
Aunque no la recomiendo para todo, si que necesita tiempo para saber si su aplicación es correcta. En este caso no me han servido los presets, he tenido que configurar el plug-in a mis necesidades. Para instrumentos como Baterias, no he notado una mejoría al instante, para voces, guitarras y piano, me ha gustado mucho. Pero recomiendo dedicarle tiempo ya que las mejoras que aporta pueden ser muy buenas.
D. Hetzel
At least as good as Ocean Ways
The ladies and gentlemen from UA have once again done a great job here.
It has never been easier to emulate a good and above all realistic sounding room. Especially for drums and backing vocals an absolute must have.
N. Grant
Amazing App but CPU heavy
Sounds absolutely amazing on guitar and drums. I'm on M1 mac with 8gb RAM so it's drain on CPU. I have to freeze tracks in Luna.
N. Grant
Amazing App but CPU heavy
Sounds absolutely amazing on guitar and drums. I'm on M1 mac with 8gb RAM so it's drain on CPU. I have to freeze tracks in Luna.
c. ibbetson
CPU killer
This is by far the most CPU heavy reverb I have ever had. Even heavier than Waves Abbey Road verbs. Making it mostly unusable especially if you want more than 1 instance. 8 cores running at 5ghz and Sound City wanted nearly 25% of my CPU power.
Also 2 days after purchase of Sound City along with the 1176 ($99 bundle) the price was reduced for the 1176 even lower. I feel cheated. I would have preferred just the 1176 at the lower price in hindsight.
This 1st purchase has effectively caused me to make sure I never buy any plugs from UAD again. Shame really, I had high hopes.
F. Schoffelen
A room with a sound
As an old time user of Ocean Way to pep up recordings in a small dry mix room I was curious about this one.
//Room & Mics
Quite a bit more tools but also fewer microphone-settings. On my stuff it imparts a good room-sound which can turn a bit boomy when certain low frequencies are overly present in the original : Pre-Eq to the rescue or the internal EQ module ( although that is very limited in variability). I will rarely use the mono microphones and I wonder a bit that there are more MONO mics than STEREO field mics. Especially on the close mics. I love the sound of the Ribbons but mono? Why restrict that so much when you're at it ?
//Dynamics // EQ
I like the variety of dynamics processors where the dolby one is my favourite at this time, second would be the AIR setting. I wish the dynamics module would not default to "crush" though, as that is rarely needed in my line of music ( acoustic & acoustic VI's) . The EQ is a bit minimalistic but of course that is easily resolved by any EQ in a DAW or in Console.
//Stereo field //
When I use it on quite wide stereo acoustic recordings ( stereo Neumanns panned ) I can hear the stereo field of the recording become A LOT SMALLER or tighter. Even with the WIDE setting on the added Reverb-Room module and selecting the C414 stereo close mics and the stereo room mics. You get the room and the mic-placement : you can't change the placement in "wide-ness" as you could ( a bit) in Ocean Way. This has been brought up in other reviews and I guess it is something that can present a problem. I am going to try to do parallel with this and give the complimentary channel just the original side-signal. If phase coherence permits...
// Native-ness
I wish it was usable in console as well. I use Ocean Way there and it does work nicely also for printing. Please UAD : make it APOLLO as well. On my 16 core Mac I don't notice any big impact using 5 of these but I can understand that a lot of people would.
// Sales
As I bought it in a special 2 for 99$ pack so omnipresent during the BF to NY sales frenzy it was a no-brainer for me. Please offer 2 for 1 deals retrospectively to people who bought if of the bat only days or even weeks before sales. It is good customer-binding.
To sum it up : Great plugin and welcome addition to the kind of Plugins that Universal Audio does so well : Room and Equipment virtualisation.
M. Koprak
Great room! Versatilities as you wish
Great room! Versatilities as you wish