UAD-1 Artist Feature: Ron MacLeod
On His Favorite Gear for "Designing the Surround Experience"
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Ron MacLeod
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…Being a fan of old vintage outboard compressors, MacLeod found the perfect answer for his needs in the Mackie UAD-1 card, which was developed by Universal Audio (UA). "The father of the guys who started UA invented the original 1176 — something that we as engineers coveted, this 30-some year old compressor," explains MacLeod.
"Their dad actually invented that stuff, so they restarted up the company and are remaking the hardware, but now they’ve developed them as plug-ins as well,"
he says. "The UAD-1 is a PCI card that goes in the Mac that has its own massive effects processor, so it doesn’t draw off of your Mac’s processing power…
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