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Universal Audio UAD-2 Quad

DSP Board from Universal Audio belonging to the UAD-2 PCIe series

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Published on 04/22/10 at 05:37
I decided to mount a good configuration for the "studio" i7 intel, windows xp pro, 2gig of ram, and with my presonus FIREPOD a uad neve 2 32. To have an interesting sound, warm and round as I love him. I record there on my keyboards, vocals, guitars and exceptional battery.
Opinions on the site encouraged me ...

UTILIZATION

The drivers are very stable in 3 months of use I expect a crash, but I think it's more of a problem with that, cubase uad.
I can do a bit of what I want. I managed only once to go to the capacity limit of the card, by exaggerating the plugins started. But in a "normal" use and given that my sound card limits the number of output, I have nothing to say. No latency, despite what I read here and there, me, it has not affected my resources. The sound is doubly improved on my setup, since I release the engine asio part of his treatment, the sound is more punchy vst, and the sound through the DSP is very good.

GETTING STARTED

No setup hassles, the setting does not pose a problem. I just wanted qu'UAD spares us the presence of all modules available in the tree in windows leaving us to choose between those that have been acquired. Sometimes we wonder if we have this reference or not ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 months on a musical project started last year. All I need to resume because the sound is completely transformed for the better. I tried the VST Flow ... is not the same. It's also good, but i there, I saw that there was a potential well different. Best. Admittedly, I have been pretty book on the use of compressors, equalizers and other gate and I know I made mistakes before. I was even more mistakes before would be more accurate ... But still, the sound is nothing more dynamic than passing an entire mix in the strip NEVE. So we must understand a little different elements, help resources online, a book ... or whatever else ... there is no "mixing for dummies", but there are theoretical references easily accessible. This is the negative element that I find ... must be documented. Presets allow things already, especially compressors, after it is refined. I am a little disappointed about one thing: the map showed to me the limits of my speakers and I must remember that. With a sound card offers more output channels, it should be a treat. If this were the case, I take good version 64 rather than 32, because I think we should indulge more in such cases. There. It's more positive for me and I advise the purchase. I would do this election if I had to. For now, I'm going back to my mixing ...