Neve® 88RSTM Channel Strip Collection
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Neve’s premier analog console expertly emulated – featuring Unison™ mic preamp modeling.
The Neve 88 Series is a paragon of large-format analog console design. Introduced in 2001, the 88 Series is renowned for its startling depth, airiness, and clarity — deftly encompassing the best of all Neve designs that came before it. Not surprisingly, Neve 88 Series consoles are found in some of the world’s finest studios and scoring stages, including Skywalker Ranch and Capitol.
Now for the first time, you can track through an authentic emulation of this modern masterpiece — complete with its famous mic/line preamp, cut filters, dynamics, four-band EQ, plus post-fader output amplifier — exclusively for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces.Sculpt your mix with Neve’s premium large-format analog console sound
Get the clarity and openness of Neve’s famous 88RS transformer-based mic preamp
Shape your signals with legendary Neve 88RS Formant Spectrum EQ and Dynamics sections
Control Apollo interface mic preamp gain staging and impedance directly from the plug-in via Unison™ technology
Mix with artist presets from Jimmy Douglass, Andrew Dawson, Joey Waronker, and Ryan West
Create a modern Neve analog console in your DAW
Take a Listen
Learn how to Give Acoustic Guitars Clarity
Grammy-winning engineer, F. Reid Shippen (Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban) and the Neve 88RS Channel Strip plug‑in.
The only end-to-end Neve 88RS Channel Strip Circuit Emulation
Universal Audio’s all-new Neve 88RS Channel Strip for Apollo and UAD-2 precisely emulates the unique circuit behaviors of Neve’s flagship large-format mixer. Modeling the mic/line preamp, cut filters, dynamics, four-band EQ, plus post-fader output amplifier with fanatical detail, the Neve 88RS Channel Strip plug-in replicates the luxurious, high-fidelity sound of Neve's ultimate mixing console.
Unison Technology for Apollo
Harnessing UA’s groundbreaking Unison technology, the Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection gives you all of the 88RS mic/line preamp’s impedance, gain stage “sweet spots,” and circuit behaviors that have made it the modern benchmark in analog preamp design. The secret is Unison’s bi-directional control and communication from the Neve 88RS plug-in to the physical mic preamps in Apollo. And the results are nothing short of spectacular.
Sculpt with Neve's Formant Spectrum EQ
The 88RS is outfitted with broad range, minimum-phase 12 dB high and low cut filters to shape any signal during tracking or mixdown. In addition, Neve's famed Formant Spectrum four-band EQ, perfect for ambitious tonal strokes or precise surgery, offers classic Neve color on any source.
Crush or Expand with Neve Dynamics
With versatile and musical VCA-type limit/compress and gate/expand modules, the 88RS’ dynamics sections can precisely tailor any source; transparently smoothing a lead vocal, bringing excitement and immediacy to a percussion bus, or even providing frequency-dependent gain reduction for de-essing.
Add Depth and Openness with any UAD hardware
Of course, the Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection isn’t just for Apollo owners. UAD-2 owners can use the Neve 88RS Channel Strip for amplification, EQ tone shaping, dynamics control, or adding the Neve sheen to any source, without going outside the box. With the Neve 88RS Channel Strip's complete console channel emulation, plus the included DSP-lite Neve 88RS Channel Strip Legacy, you can craft your projects with the stunning analog clarity of the 88RS.
“Just running signals through the UAD Neve 88RS plug-in without any dynamics or EQ engaged, adds a beautiful, warm character. Driving the gain on the preamp sounds legit too. I’m excited to mix with it as a virtual console.”
– Joey Waronker (Atoms for Peace, Beck, Other Lives)
“The new UAD Neve 88RS plug-in is the channel strip I call home. It has all of the warmth and color of the analog console and its mic preamp is simply as sweet as it gets — I love it for vocals.”
– Jimmy Douglass (Pharrell, Timbaland, John Legend)
“The UAD Neve 88RS Channel Strip has changed my sound completely. Now my drums have that bottom end that sits perfectly in the mix.”
– Hector Delgado (A$AP Rocky, Selena Gomez, Jay-Z)
“The Neve 88RS plug-in is emulated with astonishing precision. You can get tons of character by driving the input gain and using the EQ and dynamics to shape sounds with accuracy. It sounds and feels like the real-deal console to my ears.”
– Ryan West (Eminem, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z)
“The UA Neve 88RS gives me the same butt-kicking power that I get from the console... It's the sound I'd expect from a real Neve.”
– Ryan West (Eminem, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z)Watch The Reviews
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Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection
Customer Reviews
A. Ballantyne
November 25, 2017
Real Neve Sound!
This is as close as you can get without getting the real thing. Great product from UA!!!
Read Morem. khaleel
November 22, 2017
unison technology - not too bad at all
The UA website states: 'Developed by UA’s world-renowned team of DSP engineers, UAD plug-ins set the standard by which all other audio plug-ins are judged.' This is the only plugin...
Read MoreT. Foster
November 15, 2017
Awesome Plug-Ins
This is an amazing plug-in, brings color to vocals whenever you add it to the channels unison
Read MoreT. Foster
November 15, 2017
Awesome
This plug-in is amazing, it brings color to whatever you are recording as soon as you put it on the channels unison
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Key Features
Exclusively Neve licensed, Universal Audio modeled Neve 88RS Channel Strip
The world's premiere preamp and channel strip from Neve’s Flagship Large-Format Analog Console
Models entire Neve 88RS circuit path, including transformer, preamp, Filters, Dynamics, EQ and output amplifier
Flexible Gate, Expansion, Compression and Limit functions, musical to surgical "Formant Spectrum" four-band parametric EQ post or pre dynamics
Realtime UAD Processing with Apollo audio interfaces
Physical input impedance and front panel control of Gain staging and other preamp parameters with Unison technology
Mic, Line and Hi-Z inputs with Unison mic preamp technology
Tactile control of Gain staging and common preamp parameters with Unison mic preamp technology
Purchase includes Unison-enabled Neve 88RS console channel strip, plus separate Neve 88RS Legacy with smaller DSP footprint
Requires a UAD DSP Accelerator Card or Apollo Interface available from authorized dealers worldwide
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Customer Reviews
Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection
C. Rollans
Nice
Barely sounds like a plugin!
A. Ballantyne
Real Neve Sound!
This is as close as you can get without getting the real thing. Great product from UA!!!
m. khaleel
unison technology - not too bad at all
The UA website states: 'Developed by UA’s world-renowned team of DSP engineers, UAD plug-ins set the standard by which all other audio plug-ins are judged.'
This is the only plugin developer I am aware of that also posts revealing shootouts.
I think that's pretty good. What do you think?
https://www.uaudio.com/blog/jacquire-king-unison/m. andersson
Sounds Great!
Really useful and nice sounding plugin!
T. Foster
Awesome Plug-Ins
This is an amazing plug-in, brings color to vocals whenever you add it to the channels unison
T. Foster
Awesome
This plug-in is amazing, it brings color to whatever you are recording as soon as you put it on the channels unison
D. Pierce
Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection
I keep it on my kick buss just in case I need it. When I do, it does not play around!
G. Fricke
Great Sound Quickly Dialed In
Impressively clean sound recording acoustic instruments. On the other side, rolling through the presets on previously recorded tracks makes getting close to a final edit a breeze.
P. Backman
Excellent!
Sounds really really great. A little bit DSP hungry.
H. Razack
Just wonderful
I've just spent half an hour with the plugin in my cart, hesitating about buying it or not - what with all the native plugins becoming so good these days.
Then I decided to go for it. I opened a session, put the 88RS on an acoustic guitar track as well as some vocals, and holy molly, this thing sounds fantastic!
I'm more of a producer than a mixing engineer, but even I could hear the difference - all the often over-hyped terms applied: warmth, character, vibe - you name it.
I'm delighted with the product - well done UAD! (and I haven't even tried the unison yet)J. Long
Ahhh! The Neve 88. At last...
The Neve is very smooth and has great channel-oriented dynamics and two EQ options. I tend to drive the output bus with this one when I track, and I keep the compression ratio low, just shaving off a few dB with a slow attack. This is another great one for recording guitars direct, so this is another of the Unison where I “print” the recording channel. I just go easy on the compression and the EQ to give me some room later if I need it.
o. smith
WOW WOW AND MORE WOW
I own the SSL 4000 and the API for a wild now love them but because i didn't like the look of the 88RS and i didn't see anyone do much talking about it so i just jump over it time and time again. So i just pick up an Apollo 8 get a discount deal for 3 plugins and pick it up because or the price man am happy i did drums and vocals buss with a little drive from the mic pre WOW thank you UAD
S. Jarvie-Kohn
Excellent Strip!
I have just finished my 15 day demo and I am moments away from the purchase. I tested this alongside the other available unison plugins and this one definitely sounded the best to me. Really genuine Neve sound. The compressor is great and just having it on the channel makes a world of a difference. Highly recommended.
W. Gilbert
This strip is a Beast!
Before buying this plug-in I had the pleasure of using AMS Neve 8801 channel strips for over a year in a studio. So I know what the analog strips can do and what they sound like. This plug is dead on when it comes to being a Neve 88R channel strip. I recently had to punch in some vocal parts that were recorded with the Neve 8801 analog channel strip and I can tell you that this plug did not sound any different from the original. You can not tell a difference between what I recorded with the strip and what I recorded later with the plug. This is a must have! Plus it's very affordable when you consider buying several analog 8801 channel strips.
v. alagappan
Brilliant and faithful recreation
This revamped unison version of the old neve 88RS emulation sound fantastic. I use it on all my sessions and track with it as well. highly recommended.
S. Cavazzoni
Sensacional!!
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Nota 11!F. Aurel
Very nice !
So happy with this purchase. The vocals now sound bigger and warmer. I recommend to activate the demo and see if it fits you
F. Aurel
Very nice !
So happy with this purchase. The vocals now sound bigger and warmer. I recommend to activate the demo and see if it fits you
j. revels
Authentic Neve
Makes everything sound good, just turn the knobs and listen
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Remarkable
This Plugin is amazing very accurate
