SORTED - Seeking recommendations for UA or native plug-ins

Castro · August 2022

Hi people

Having just invested in a UA Apollo X4 Heritage Edition, I'm keen to draw up a shortlist for additional UA or native plug-ins.

In particular I will be recording vocals, acoustic guitar and electric guitar, plus I'd like some great piano sounds.

Any recommendations are appreciated.

Frizer · August 2022

This might sound a bit stupid but you want the UA stuff. So the 1176 etc. Most of the other branded stuff is available cheaper at places like Plugin Alliance. I think they might be the only place you can get Neve branded plugins? Maybe Lexicon too, I think that is only standalone aside from UA. I like Arturia for keys and Neural DSP for guitars.

As far as other stuff goes, most of the amp sims are great. Distressor and Culture Vulture are very popular.

joeW · August 2022

The UA spark has a lovely piano (and MiniMoog) and a nice suite of eq’s and compression that works great for guitar - never done vocals. They are all native too.

Castro · August 2022

Thanks @Frizer and @joeW ;

jmf1928 · August 2022

The UA 1176, LA2A, 2500, and Fairchild are excellent. I use the API vision channel strip all the time. It’s fantastic though wish GUI was resizable. Still my #1 channel strip. The Lexicon stuff is brilliant as is the AMS stuff. Those are my top uses. Also sometimes use the dytronics stuff and ocean way sound.

Castro · August 2022

Thanks @jmf1928 ;

cathodyne · October 2022

@Castro I'd be interested to know what extras you have picked, I see this thread is marked SORTED now.

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