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HYBRID HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PRODUCT It would take two-and-a-half bowls of UAD-1 cards to equal the plug-in hosting DSP power of one bowl of UAD-2 cards. ...
I sometimes wonder if there's some sort of rivalry between Universal Audio's analog and digital product divisions. On one hand, the company has garnered accolades for some of the most lauded analog gear in history, stretching back to the '50s, and it still manufactures contemporary versions of the venerable 1176 and LA-2A compressors.
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High-quality plug-ins are often taken for granted. They broaden musical horizons and expand the musical palette in ways that many musicians never imagined, allowing bedroom producers to create tracks that rival those produced by million-dollar studios.
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Back in the middle of the 20th century, you couldn't just walk into your neighborhood audio store and buy a mixing console. Generally speaking, mixers were custom units designed and built by the recordists (that is, engineers) that used them. One such engineer was Bill Putnam Sr., who also designed the famed 1176 and LA-2A compressors recently reproduced by the revived Universal Audio company.
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Bill and James Putnam brought smiles to a lot of studio engineers in 1999, when they announced the relaunch of Universal Audio, which had shut down 30 years prior. The first two projects the new company undertook were the production of virtually exact replicas of the seminal Teletronix LA-2A and UREI 1176 LN
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In the audio industry, the terms "legendary" and "classic" have become overused to the point that they have lost all meaning. However, certain products-such as the AKG C-12, Fairchild 670, Neumann U47, Neve 1073, Pultec EQP-1A, UREI/Universal Audio 1176 Compressor/Limiter and LA-2A Leveling Amplifier
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There are few pieces of equipment, new or vintage, that inspire as devoted a following as the Teletronix LA-2A. Ever since production of the LA-2A ceased 30 years ago, engineers eagerly paid premium prices on the secondhand market for this revered electro-optical tube compressor
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As the name suggests, the Universal Audio Plate 140 reverb plug-in ($149), designed for use with the UAD-1 accelerator card, is modeled after the German-made EMT Plate 140.
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Since 1999, Universal Audio has been steadily building up a stable of quality hardware products, first starting with the LA-2A and 1176 legacy compressors and, more recently, units such as the 8110 and 4110 mic preamps released last year. The latest additions to the company's profile are the slick and portable Solo 610 (tube) and Solo 110 (solid-state FET) mic pre/DI boxes.
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Universal Audio's Model 6176 Channel Strip is a two-rackspace unit containing one channel from UA's Class-A 2-610 tube mic preamp and a UA 1176LN peak limiter. This “natural” combination gets even better when you realize that both the 610 and 1176LN
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One company that's helping to keep tube technology alive is the reincarnated Universal Audio (UA), founded by the offspring of legendary engineer and original UA founder M. T. “Bill” Putnam Sr. ...
The 2-1176 Dual Limiting Amplifier is a 2-channel version of Universal Audio's '60s-era 1176 and uses the same FETs (for gain control elements) and output transformers.
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The DCS Remote Preamp represents Universal Audio's new-concept Desktop Control System. It stashes two console-grade preamps into a base station and breaks out a remote box with flexible monitoring options, a headphone amp with listen-only EQ and reverb, a talkback mic and two VU meters.
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Since the relaunch of the Universal Audio (UA) brand in 1999, the company has put out some very cool reissues as well as new hardware products and software plug-ins, many of them simulating classic audio devices.
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Continuing its tradition of producing innovative studio products, Universal Audio partnered with the original founders of Euphonix to create the Desktop Console System (DCS), designed for the DAW user.
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Universal Audio's UAD DSP host system has garnered a lot of respect in the audio community, becoming a staple in many serious digital audio workstation setups.
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Universal Audio's Model 2192 Master Digital Audio Interface combines feature-rich design with impeccable audio quality. Priced at $2,795, the 2192 offers two channels of AD/DA conversion, flexible routing and a word clock generator/distributor.
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Most engineers of a certain age can name a favorite piece of outboard gear from the "good old days," and one perennial favorite is the Universal Audio 1176 Peak Limiter. Starting in 1967, about 12,000 to 15,000 1176s were manufactured (the initial retail price was $489), but more than 30 years later
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Universal Audio is generally known these days for re-releases of its legacy analog processors such as the LA-2A and 1176, along with some newer combo units such as the LA-610, marrying classic hardware into “greatest hits” hybrid packages.
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