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. In 2004, Universal Audio released the Fairchild 670 Legacy plug-in, which was quickly heralded as the best 670 emulation available. The Closest You Can Get to Vintage Fairchilds in a Plug-In

In fact, the world’s elite mixers often employ a 670 simply for the 'glow' it brings to their final mixes, even without compression happening. For a half-century, the Fairchild 670 - and its aggressive little brother, the Fairchild 660 - have defined popular music’s most revered vocal and drum sounds. Soon, these 20-tube, 14-transformer, 67-pound behemoths resided in world-class studios, many of which still employ their vintage Fairchilds. The first Fairchild limiter that audio genius Rein Narma created on Les Paul’s kitchen table transformed recording forever.

Mix with presets from Darrell Thorp ( Beck, Radiohead), Ryan West ( Jay-Z, Kid Cudi), and Peter Mokran ( The Flaming Lips, Mary J.

Use 'plug-in only' features like Wet/Dry, Sidechain Filters, and Headroom Control.

Complete your 'Big Three' compressor arsenal, alongside the LA-2A and 1176 plug-ins.

Duplicate the famed Ocean Way Studios' compression sound with circuit-modeled recreations of their golden reference units.

Harness the Fairchild’s tube-driven gain control, compression curves, and tube amp and transformer sections.

Give your tracks and mixes classic Fairchild tube warmth and character.Now your vocal tracks, drum bus, and entire mix can benefit from the world’s most accurate plug-in recreations of these one-of-a-kind compressors, with the Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection for Native and UAD-2. These 20-tube tone titans - which now fetch upwards of $50,000 - impart an unmistakable silky warmth heard on hundreds of hit records from the Beatles and Pink Floyd to countless Motown classics. The Fairchild 670 and 660 are the most coveted vintage compressor/limiters in the world, with good reason. The gold standard in vintage tube limiters - captured for UAD and Apollo.

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