Universal Audio has captured Fairchild’s revered tube character with the new Fairchild Tube Limiter Plug-In Collection for the UAD Powered plug-ins platform and Apollo audio interfaces.
In 2004, Universal Audio released the Fairchild 670 Legacy plug-in, heralded as the best Fairchild 670 emulation available. Now UA has improved the original time constants and gain reduction curves while modeling — for the first time ever — the complete tube-powered amplifier and transformer sections of their hardware counterparts.
Far beyond other Fairchild emulations, only the new UAD Fairchild Limiter Collection is based on an accurate circuit model of Ocean Way’s “golden-reference” units.
The Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection also offers “digital only” features such as sidechain filtering, dry/wet parallel blend, and headroom controls, giving owners of Apollo audio interfaces and UAD-2 DSP Accelerator hardware modern workflow appointments.
Available for purchase via the UA online store for $299, the Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection is part of the new UAD Software v7.4— which also includes the Maag EQ4 plug-in.
Specifics:
—Includes the Fairchild mono 660 and stereo 670, each with their own sonic attributes and feature sets
—Models entire electronic path, including tube amplifiers and transformers for complete analog color and behavior
—Based on Ocean Way’s famous, meticulously maintained Fairchild “golden units”
—Lateral-Vertical mode for stereo imaging and balance control
—Includes new “digital only” features such as sidechain filtering, dry/wet parallel blend, and headroom controls
—Requires UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Card or Apollo Interface, available from authorized dealers worldwide
Download UAD Software v7.4 here.
