Novem-For a half-century, the Fairchild 670 and 660 tube limiters have defined many of popular music’s most revered vocal and drum sounds, from Pink Floyd and the Beatles to classic Motown singles.
Now, Universal Audio has fully captured Fairchild’s revered tube character with the 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, which was quickly heralded as the best Fairchild 670 emulation available. The sublime capabilities of the UAD Fairchild 670 Compressor sprouted from 65 pounds of 14 transformers. Today, UA’s team of DSP experts have 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. Its sonic treatment is to many the best in the world. 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.
