UAD Signature Edition
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UAD Signature Edition
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F. Medilien
No buyer’s remorse
I have not regretted buying this plugin. Not one bit! This is BIG. This is pure quality stuff.
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. Castagnino
Best bundle ever
This has bean a huge leap in my mixing processing possibilities. I think UAD products are the closest option to mixing with analog gear. UAD Native option for those who don't own UAD hardware like me is a total game changer.
J. Smalls
Great all around compressor
I use the API 2500 in multiple ways, in the mix or for post mastering. I love it more for mastering its glues everything together and with the tone section really adds depth. I say for the sale price you shouldn’t need a review to help with the purchase JUST BUY IT. Otherwise this is an amazing plugin and I highly recommend it!
F. MARTINA
Just Native?!?!
You should release it in UAD format as soon as possible, together with all your “Just Native” products. This strategy will backfire you guys.
s. ermolaev
magnificent
I have wanted it for a long time and now I am the owner of this unsurpassed warmth)
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.
J. Bru
La mejor emulación!!!!
Me encanta como suena, todos los efectos que tiene y es una gran herramienta para composición. Todavía me queda mucho por descubrir y lo recomiendo al 100%
M. Mulligan
Icing on the Cake
I’m infatuated with this guy as of late! I’ve been strapping it to the end of my mix bus with some gentle tweaks and I haven’t regretted it yet. It’s a fantastic tape emulation that (in my opinion) goes toe-to-toe with Softube’s tape offering. Don’t hesitate to pick it up.
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.
J. Gorszczyk
Really average - too bad
Honestly, this is the only UAD plugin that I'm going to rate low. All of their products are fantastic. Just not this one.
Compared to Alicia's Keys, Noire and a couple of Spitfire libraries that are 29usd... it sounds muffled, too roomy and not a lot of settings to tweak to make it sounds to my liking.
In the end it's 9GB on my hard drive for very little use. I'm going to keep using my other VSTs.
G. Lion
The "Everything" Compressor
I think we all know what it is. If not, know it's definitely not "just another compressor." Amongst all its benefits, particularly striking is its excellent manipulation of snares and the drum buss. It's nasty when you need it to be, but goes out of its way to preserve snap and sizzle on snares especially when you require it. When you want something mangled however, it'll mangle it GOOD and proper! 100% worth watching and digesting a few videos on its use, this has a lot of excellent capability you'll really want to be familiar with. Absolutely awesome thing.
K. Kentawai
Love
Great compressor
G. Josset
indispensable
Ce Manley est devenu totalement indispensable à ma production.
Même en retournant le problème dans tous les sens, il me manquait ce truc que je n'arrivais pas à obtenir, il y a quelque chose de magique ici !!
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.
J. Romero
Great presence and depth.
I love the flexible sound shaping you can get with it.
It's great for both master and individual channels.
D. Fenelon
Mastering
Yeah I tried it. It does make a warm difference. I’m not a pro but I did like the effect. It is a small change, but when mastering, everything little subtle change can result in a satisfying outcome.