The UAD Manley Variable Mu has a lot in common with our Qes Labs Variable GM tube stereo compressor. In Use - I like to keep in mind what gear we have in the studio that will translate well to the capabilities of a particular plugin.
Here are the UAD plugins that BB4 House Engineer Kiara Mudd frequently reaches for: That includes us gearheads at BB4 Studios in Brooklyn, who have a stacked UAD card in-house with a plethora of our fave plugs. Making awesome analog units available right inside your DAW-without freezing up your computer-was an electrifying development for audio engineers worldwide. You can definitely say that about Universal Audio’s Powered Plug-ins (UAD) platform, which took advantage of dedicated DSP and digital modeling to create lifelike emulations of classic gear. Whether that justifies outlaying the cash to use over synth tracks is up to you, but I do like them myself.Just like songs themselves, sometimes audio gear appears that’s a game-changer. UAD's ad spams get a bit annoying sometimes, but the system itself runs very smoothly and bug-free.Ī producer/engineer I spoke to a number of years ago who had used the original hardware 1176's said that UAD's plug-ins sounded identical to the ones he used in studios in L.A. I use the Millennia EQ, the Precision Limiter and the Pultec EQ for mastering jobs, but bought the Lexicon reverb to use on as a main aux verb in mixes and it sounds like the original, but with little tax on my Mac's CPU. I've never noticed any particular latency issues, but most of the plug-ins are designed for using on mix-down of pre-recorded material rather than inserted over live tracks. The emulations of classic outboard gear are faithful but the differences between them and bundled plug-ins are really subtle, so unless you're in a critical audio situation, perhaps not good value for money as there are plenty of excellent native plug-ins that do most jobs very well. Go get a UAD card if money is not an issue, some really great stuff, but I promise you that it won't be any higher quality than all the others.įor mastering mixes, the UAD plug ins are great. I probably missed some and there are many other really great native plugs in these categories which just isn't for me, but surely is a lot better for someone else (/you?). so I'll leave that one open for someone else to answer.
Space Echo: I've used a bunch of different plugs, but nowadays only use standard digital delays (as clean and simple as possible) and add different types of stuff in the feedback loops to emulate different types of old echoes (and totally made up stuff which sounds even better for some stuff).
Saturators/etc, try looking at the exact same companies (remove Flux and Tokyo Labs from that list and instead add Fielding DSP and FabFilter)ĮQs: Softube, Plugin Alliance, Flux, Waves, FabFilter, DMGAudio and Sonimus. So, a short list of companies who makes stuff I use a lot:Ĭompressors: Softube, Slate Digital, Flux, Plugin Alliance, Tokyo Labs, iZotope, Massey and Klanghelm. I spent too much time writing a long list of plugs but presset cmd-r by accident = all gone.
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