Universal Audio UAD-1 user reviews ( 9/10) - 5 user reviews

• 11/24/07

  byboulito's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Asus, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz, 2GB corsair ram, Win XP Pro, Cubase SX3.
  
  Sound card pci simple. Warning plan to buy a second card, with a single one is quickly limited freezer tracks in Cubase SX is a temporary solution.

  Utilization

  No problems with installation, you install the card, the latest drivers and presto!
  
  Especially not reach on time as I did because of a virus sasser ##*"% c ... otherwise you lose all demos 14jrs. Reinstalling Windows does not change it ' is too late. To believe a change is made on the chip card itself, finally I do not know ...
  
  Only the purchase of plugs is a bit complex, because you must register and go through a lot of manipulations tt a little long pr get a file that allows the plug purchased.

  Getting Started

  Very good drivers, no crashes & really they are often updated.
  
  With one card, you can count 6 or 7 & 1176SE compressor is full. It may sound little but nothing that buying one of these compressors is up to € 1500 so no worries.

  Overall Opinion

  The sound is terrrriible! Really no comparison with the waves plugs that were already very good. We can compare the solution to the UAD hardware (I even had a dbx160a I sold).
  
  Compressors 1176 are extraordinary, they compress the heat added monstrous & vintage, very musical. The Pultec is magic, he adds emotion to bcp a voice made for example, is simply beautiful. The precision limit also amazing, the L3-bye! In short the next purchase flat 140.
  
  In short go for it, I never heard that a computer ds. My mix has a pro now and his vintage hot side is very significant. Universal Audio has been very strong.
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• 02/11/07

  3prod's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  See below

  Utilization

  See below

  Getting Started

  See below

  Overall Opinion

  This card is a marvel! The plugs are modeling suggested that no material could never afford homestudiste even dream ..... Pultec, LA2A, 1176 .... yum!
  
  I use it everyday for 2 years and since the apps offer plugin delay compensation is a pure joy ... more latency, more compensation to be calculated, so good.
  
  I hesitated between this and a TC Powercore .... and I do not regret my choice. However, I just bought a PowerCore to complete the system and I complement this notice with a little comparison between them one of these four!
  
  
  
  Warning: this is only my opinion and that is a reflection of my personal or professional experience that I want objective, but which is necessarily subjective. I am not forcing anyone to share it, to take it at face value. So for the brave who think invested I do not know what mission on condition of anonymity to their email, it is useless to send me messages of insults because you do not share my point of view: your mail automatically end his life in the trash, with no other alternative. In a sense, you can consider it a return to sender;)
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• 09/26/06

  Bill3107's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Asus P4G8X Motherboard, 1GB RAM, P4 2.4 ghz

  Utilization

  No problem on my PC, Windows XP ss
  
  Doc English peoblème ss. No complaints

  Getting Started

  Use side I'm pretty disappointed with the little that can be loaded. I who also creamware cards (cards so as dsp), I have a much higher computing power. I think that at least three cards if you want to work seriously. I have pointed out (y 'fans uad on AudioFanzine ...) that the powers of calculation are not the same. That's true. But just as one can not compare a Mac to a PC with 2 GHz to 2 GHz, the two DSP cards and architecture are different. Morality? I only see that I was able to manage larger projects with excellent sound while uad arrived quickly at the cleat. Course offered plugs are great, but at the cost of power soon reached. Note that universal audio has the honesty to show on their site what you do with a map. When using large plugs that kill ... well they kill fast the process is normal. Some high-end plugs creamware eat up most of the bandwidth (eg reverb produced by sonictimeworks P100), but rarely much power dsp.

  Overall Opinion

  The quality of some plugs (comp, EQs, ...) is excellent. Other plugs are means (eg some reverb guitar amp simulation or far behind my Dynatube of creamware). I would say that sin is that it costs much faster if you want to use the plugs with dignity because computing power is quickly wiped out by plugs very good but very greedy. Uad I dropped and I only keep my cards that offer me Creamware:
  
  - Excellent effects emulations (including the 3rd party) but also
  
  - Emulations of synths that send B4 emulation and other native instruments in the closet! B2003, Minimax, Pro-12 etc. ..
  
  - Without forgetting that the uad (unlike creamware cards) do not provide the I / O hardware with converstisseurs. All this is expensive to have very good effects (EQ and compressor). It's a personal choice that depends on your budget and the number of PCI or PCI-e available. The ideal is to have a UAD port PCI-e and one or two cards for creamware synths, rooting, reverb, etc ... Finally, in my opinion!
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• 12/10/04

  mysolo2you's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  My system revolves around Logic 6.4.2, while the arm of a motu 192 hd and 2 1224.j got a g5 bipros 1.8.
  
  So two full map uad1.quasi options.au dpart I chose the UAD-1 for the specials that y'avait. deux.je and maintenantj'en I'm used mainly for emulation the ureil the LA2A, I get high every acquisition, new plugs, so the quality is not only good but very precise on this map.

  Utilization

  The installation is very simples.en for me the setting, what little there "in him is simple.
  
  the manual clean, actually saying anything ...

  Getting Started

  The fuel card .... the drivers are being updated on the site of universal-audio, rguliere.disons way that you feel no after purchase card "alone in the world." I ' jamma have even crash the card by pushing in its retranchement.mes favorite plugs are the UREI 1176, the LA2A, the Pultec, Cambridge EQ, Precision Limiter, which is a terminator ne.le cambridge alone could justify the purchase of the UAD-1 so it is prcis fficace.avec logic and the latency is bad gr ds use uad plugs on this level groupes.pour universal audio problem in the bundle supplied the "delay-comp".

  Overall Opinion

  I use it for over a year .... only one thing dire.l 'uad-1 allowed me to see things more clearly, in my travail.la quality is such that we say. That's it ...." it does not play. "UAD is at least as high quality of his treatment, and performances.l try is to adopt
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• 09/05/02

  Web-bros's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Our purchase t motivated by exceptional quality audio processing, such as the 1176LN compressor!
  
  We use the UAD-1 all levels: track EQ, Mastering, Audio Restoration and of course pre-amp guitar (for personal use!)
  
  We have two cards installed on 1 motherboard ABIT BX133 Raid on the one hand and an ASUS TUSL2-c-2 teams of all Intel PIII 1 Ghz, 512 RAM and HDD IBM
  
  We possdons a 100% DIGITAL COUNTERS sytem, ​​without mixing desk with Genelec monitors.

  Utilization

  You must have a computer (Mac or PC) trs clean with, preferences 2 free IRQ, because it takes absolutely no conflict or sharing with this card. Otherwise, c is super simple! !
  
  No incomptabilit ...
  
  The config is super simple because it is an executable file that takes care of everything.
  
  The manual is in English ..... But hey, who bought a UAD-1 gnral knows how this type of effect

  Getting Started

  The new versions are trs propres.Sur XP Home / Pro no Mac OS9 soucis.Sur ditto
  
  No we have not test version MAS.
  
  We work with Cubase SX, Nuendo and Cubase 5.1 WAVELAB4.0
  
  We work 1.5 ms latency.
  
  We can read about 200 tracks and 180 in 24/44.1 24/48, we have 16 tracks acquisition simultannes

  Overall Opinion

  T we have used in the first, we had a beta version by Steinberg France.
  
  We compared the TC Power Core.
  
  The report quality price is fabulous! especially when one compares the prices of Universal Audio!
  
  We refer this choice for our next computer!
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