Universal Audio Releases New Plugins From Softube, Brainworx, and Townsend Labs

Universal Audio has announced the release of UAD Software v9.4, introducing the Empirical Labs® EL8 Distressor plug-in, as well as other plug-in titles from UA’s direct developer partners.

Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor

• Track and mix with the only authentic emulation of the EL8 Distressor — the world’s most popular modern compressor
• Radically shape guitars, drums, and vocals with nearly infinite gain reduction variations
• Creatively color instruments and vocals with famous “Dist 2” and “Dist 3” modes
• Embellish, pump up, or destroy bass, synth, and room mics with custom detector filtering
• Harness plug-in-only features like Dry/Wet parallel processing and Headroom for user-customizable operating level
• Mix with presets from Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio), Chris Zane (Passion Pit, The Walkmen), Hector Delgado (A$AP Rocky, Selena Gomez) Jimmy Douglass (The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music), and more

Dytronics Tri-Stereo Chorus

• Get thick analog chorus from three bucket-brigade delay lines, simultaneously on a single source
• Craft rich, swirling analog chorus textures on guitars, keyboards, bass, synths, and more
• Sculpt lush modulation sounds with Preset or Manual mode, each with its own LFO waveform output
• Use Preset and Manual modes together to craft your own signature chorus tones

UAD Gallien Krueger 800RB Bass Amp

• Record your bass through a spot-on emulation of one of the all-time classic bass amps
• Independently select Recording Chains with cabinet/microphone combos for each of the 800RB’s two amplifiers
• Shape your tone with Gallien-Krueger’s unbeatable voicing filters and 4-band EQ
• Track with authentic bass-amp feel through an Apollo interface using Unison™ technology

Ocean Way Microphone Collection

Ocean Way Microphone Collection Features

• Accurate emulations of vintage microphones from Allen Sides’ world-renowned collection, including mics from Neumann, Sony, AKG, RCA, and more*
• Realtime UAD Processing with Universal Audio’s Apollo interface for extremely low latency
• Three-dimensional modeling emulates proximity effect, polar patterns, and other off-axis characteristics of vintage microphones with stunning accuracy
• Re-Mic Sphere tracks and select mic type, polar pattern, proximity effect, and other settings before or after tracking

You can learn more about each of the plugins included in UAD Software v9.4 by visiting the Universal Audio website.

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