’Child of our Time Having seen updates to the Urei 1176 and LA-2A plug-ins, it seemed only a matter of time before Universal Audio turned its attention to its venerable Fairchild compressor. However, for those of us who can’t afford such an extravagant outlay, there’s always been the option of using Universal Audio’s excellent Fairchild 670 plug-in, which has been a mainstay of the UAD platform since 2004. Certainly, the few engineers out there who have been lucky to use an original Fairchild 670 will wax lyrical about its unique sound and how its 20 valves impart a highly musical form of gain control. Conversely, you can decrease headroom, lowering the gain reduction threshold and raising distortion for grittier textures that work on everything from vocals and drums to guitar and bass.Whether or not the current value of a Fairchild 670 (somewhere around the £30,000 mark at the time of writing) is testament to its audio quality or its apparent scarcity is hard to determine. The Headroom (HR) control can be increased to make mastering applications a breeze, raising the gain reduction threshold and lowering distortion. Punch up your drum bus without triggering the threshold of the compressor with the kick drum, for drums with max impact using the Fairchild's Sidechain Filters. The Mix control lets you blend your unprocessed signal with the compressed signal, opening worlds of textural possibilities on everything from a drum bus to a mix bus. Renowned for its aggressiveness, the 660 punches up piano, bass and guitar tracks, while the flagship 670 is a full stereo compressor that injects vibe and color onto channels, final mixes and even masters.įar beyond other Fairchild emulations, only the UAD Fairchild Collection is based on accurate circuit models of “golden reference” units from legendary Ocean Way Studios, giving you all the rich tube tone of the unattainable iconic hardware. The Fairchild 670 and companion, the Fairchild 660, have defined some of popular music’s most revered sounds. Now you can add the same analog 'glow' to your vocals, drums and entire mix with the most accurate plug-in emulations ever made of these one-of-a-kind tube compressors.

The Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection gives you the silky warm compression heard on hundreds of hit records from The Beatles and Pink Floyd to countless Motown classics.

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