UAD Vintage Studio Bundle

UAD Vintage Studio Bundle

Hitsville Reverb Chambers, Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collection, Oxide Tape Recorder, and Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection come together in an exceptional bundle of audio plugins designed to infuse your recordings with iconic sounds from music history.

Hitsville Reverb Chambers offers the distinct ambience of the legendary Motown attic reverb chambers, used by producers of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Supremes, allowing you to create soulful, soaring reverb effects with simple controls and dynamic room modeling.

The Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collection delivers the punchy, fat analog tones that shaped the music of Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and more, adding classic channel warmth and attitude to your studio.

Complementing these tools, the Oxide Tape Recorder provides the musical, mixable sound of professional analog tape, developed by the same team behind UA’s industry-leading tape machine plug-ins. This plugin quickly enhances vocals, guitars, drums, and other tracks with clarity, punch, and warmth.

The Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection rounds out the bundle, bringing the revered sound of Fairchild limiters to your vocal tracks, drum bus, and entire mix. Known for their “glow,” these tube compressors have defined popular music for decades, and their accurate recreations ensure your mixes benefit from their unique, revered sonic character.

Together, these plugins offer a comprehensive toolkit for achieving timeless, professional-quality audio in your productions.

Hitsville Reverb Chambers

Hitsville Reverb Chambers gives you the glorious sound of the attic reverb chambers that shaped the Motown Sound.

Available only from Universal Audio, Hitsville Reverb Chambers gives your recordings the soulful ambience of these hallowed spaces, as used by the producers of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Supremes.

Get the Sound of a Historic Reverb

The two reverb chambers built into Hitsville’s attics were essential to Motown’s exciting sound. Universal Audio completely captured their distinct character — with help from the original Motown engineers who built them — so you can put yourself inside these legendary spaces.

Shape Ambience with Simple Controls

Quickly get jaw-dropping reverb effects using Hitsville Reverb Chambers easy-to-use controls, including distinct speaker and mic selections in each chamber, to make your vocals, handclaps, tambourines, and triangles soar.

Reposition Mics with Dynamic Room Modeling

Go far beyond retro and get genre‑defying ambience by moving the chamber mics in realtime for presence and detail beyond the original hit‑making positions.

Features

• Use any audio interface, with both UAD Native and Apollo Realtime/UAD-2 versions included
• Get instant “Motown Sound” from the attic reverb chambers above the legendary Hitsville U.S.A. studio
• Dial in rich-sounding ambience using two different custom-built chambers
• Add iconic reverb to vocals, drums, and more quickly with simple controls
• Reposition mics in realtime using UA's Dynamic Room Modeling

Learn more about Hitsville Reverb Chambers

Helios Type 69 EQ and PreAmp

Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collection gives you the punchy and fat analog tone used to craft hundreds of iconic albums from Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and many more.

Add a Classic Channel to Your Studio

Whether it was housed at Olympic in London, Musicland in Munich, or in the famed Rolling Stones’ mobile studio, Helios Type 69 consoles recorded everyone from Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and more with unmistakable attitude and punch.

Get the Authentic Sound of a Classic Helios Type 69 Console

UA’s team of engineers dug deep into two original Type 69 “golden units,” faithfully emulating their distinct custom-made character, giving you colorful flavors that will bring your vocals, guitars, drums, and bass to life.

Go Bold With Colorful Analog EQ

The Helios Type 69 plug-in gives you the original hardware’s famously assertive three-band EQ, perfectly emulating the rich sounding saturation behaviors that keep radical EQ moves on all your sources sounding ultra musical, even at extreme settings.

Enjoy Thick Low-End Tone and More 

With four uniquely voiced low-frequency boost filters, the Helios Type 69 plug-in injects your tracks with the same solid and wide bass foundation found on seminal rock, pop, and reggae recordings. You can also clean up sources like overheads and room mics by switching the Bass band into a fixed 50 Hz low cut mode.

Record "Through" a Vintage Helios With Apollo

UA’s groundbreaking Unison technology lets you track in realtime "through" the Helios Type 69 plug-in using your Apollo, giving you all the original vintage hardware’s line/mic preamp impedance, gain stage “sweet spots,” and exact circuit behaviors. 

Features

• Get the fat, authentic sound of the same analog preamp/EQ used on countless classic records 
• Add attitude and punch to synths and guitars with colorful Helios midrange EQ
• Explore bass delights with four uniquely voiced low-frequency boost filters
• Record in realtime "through" a vintage Helios Type 69 mic preamp with your Apollo, using Unison™ technology
• Use with any audio interface, no UA hardware required

Learn more about Helios Type 69 EQ and PreAmp

Oxide Tape Recorder

Oxide Tape Recorder gives you the musical, mixable sound of tape, letting you quickly add clarity, punch, and warmth to vocals, guitars, drums, and more, so every track sounds like a record.

Get Hit-Making Analog Tape Sounds

Developed by the same team behind UA's industry-leading Ampex and Studer tape machine plug-ins, Oxide Tape Recorder gives your productions the warmth, presence, and vibe of professional analog tape, with only the essential controls, so you can get sounds faster.

Explore Groundbreaking Tape Emulation Technology

Whether you’re tracking in realtime using an Apollo interface or mixing in your DAW, Oxide’s intuitive controls deliver musical results for beginners and pros alike. Just select IPS (inches per second), EQ, and noise reduction settings, and tweak input and output controls to taste. By emulating fat tape compression and colorful circuit behaviors, Oxide gives your tracks the cohesive glue that only analog tape can provide.

Features

• Use any audio interface, with both UAD Native and Apollo Realtime/UAD-2 versions included
• Inject the warm color and punchy low-end response of analog tape to your tracks
• Apply tape saturation and circuit overdrive via simple Input/Output controls
• Choose among 7.5 and 15 IPS Tape Speeds and two emphasis curves for colorful tape textures
• Experience in-the-box recording “through” tape in real time using Apollo interfaces

Learn more about Oxide Tape Recorder

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

For a half-century, Fairchild limiters have defined much of popular music’s most revered vocal and drum sounds. In fact, top mixers often employ a 670 simply for the “glow” it brings to their final mixes — even without compression. Now your vocal tracks, drum bus, and entire mix can benefit from the world’s most accurate recreations of these one-of-a-kind tube compressors. 

Learn more about Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection.

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System Requirements

• macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, or Sonoma 14
• Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit only Editions)
• Intel, AMD, or Apple silicon processor
• Internet connection to download software and authorize UADx plug-ins
• Free iLok account with iLok Cloud or iLok USB (2nd generation or higher)
• A physical iLok dongle is NOT required to activate this product

DAW Compatibility

• Pro Tools 2022 (AAX)
• Logic Pro (Audio Units)
• Ableton Live 11 (VST 3, Audio Units)
• Cubase 12 (VST 3)
• Studio One 5 (VST 3)
• LUNA Recording System

You can activate this software on an online system (using iLok Cloud) or an offline system (using an iLok USB):

1. Online: an active internet connection and a FREE iLok account are required to authorise UAD Plug-ins using iLok Cloud

2. Offline: you will need a physical iLok USB (2nd generation or higher) to authorise this software

Important note: UAD plugins do not work in Apple's Garageband DAW