Reavis "Rev" Mitchell has been involved with many facets of the professional music game — including mixing, producing, and product development. Learn how his arsenal of UAD Plug-Ins helped create the punch and sonic depth for the sounds in his latest project — the Beat Thang mobile music workstation.

For those of you lucky enough to own one of Universal Audio's tube-based hardware preamps, channel strips, or compressors, you will at some point need to deal with replacing the tubes in these units. How is this done? What tubes do you need? Read on my friends, and the answers to your questions will be revealed!

As the go-to source for news and reviews in the world of digital audio plug-ins, we were honored when KVR's Chris Halaby recently rode his motorcycle from his office in Menlo Park to interview our founder, Bill Putnam Jr., for their Developer Focus series.

While you’ve been working hard and paying attention to the songs, the parts, the sounds, and all the other big-picture stuff, maybe something’s just ever so slightly out of tune. Tuning is one of the little things that can end up making a huge difference in the final quality of your recordings, so here are some final things to listen for before you start your first take.

Tony Maserati’s renowned chops has had him mixing everyone from Lady Gaga, Sting, and Mariah Carey, to The Notorious B.I.G. and Alicia Keys. His latest high-profile project is Jason Mraz’s Love Is a Four Letter Word, a project he expertly crafted with the help of a host of Universal Audio tools.

In a past post, we saw producer Fab Dupont and first engineer Meredith McCandless of FLUX Studios take an auditorium packed with 300 engineers through a complete tracking session from start to finish. In this recorded seminar from Puremix.net, we'll sit in on the complete mixing session of this track from the Will Knox Band.

Billed in the 1968 release as a “true peak limiter with all transistor circuitry and superior performance on all types of program material," the 1176’s major selling point was its ultra-fast attack time. Learn more about the history and unique design aesthetic behind this legendary compressor.

Check out sound examples of the various settings from the three distinct 1176 versions that are included in the 1176 Limiter Collection, including a video from drummer and UAD power user Andreas Neubert.

Whether Bluestripe, Blackface, or AE, each 1176 plug-in in the Classic Limiter Collection has its own unique characteristics for gain, threshold, compression knee, distortion onset, and “sweet spots.” Here are some helpful hints for getting started with these unique tools.