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Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection

Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection

Neve’s premiere analog console, at your fingertips.

  • 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
  • Create a modern Neve analog console in your DAW

Runs on macOS or Windows. Requires an Apollo audio interface or UAD Accelerator. View full system requirements.

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Neve’s Premiere Analog Console, at your Fingertips

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. 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, and post-fader output amplifier.

Record "Through" the Neve 88RS with Apollo

UA’s groundbreaking Unison technology lets you track in realtime through the Neve 88RS Channel Strip plug-in using your Apollo, giving you the sound of the original high-end hardware’s line/mic preamp impedance, gain stage “sweet spots,” and exact circuit behaviors.

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.

What They Say

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

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, Lana Del Rey

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, you’ll need an Apollo audio interface, UAD-2 Satellite, or UAD-2 PCIe card to run these plug-ins, using the onboard DSP. The plug-ins run on the hardware itself, without adding strain to your computer’s CPU. In an Apollo, onboard DSP processing allows you to run realtime UAD plug-ins with near-zero latency, and even record that processing directly to your DAW.

Yes, you can start a fully functional 14-day demo from any plug-in bundled with the UAD software. Simply click “Start Demo”, and start using it in your DAW.

UAD-2 licenses follow the hardware, it does not matter which computer they are connected to. You can have up to six UAD-2 devices registered to a system in your Universal Audio account, which share those licenses. See UAD-2 Plug-In Licensing Explained for full details. Authorization of UAD-2 hardware is managed by the UAD Meter & Control Panel Application.

Check our Knowledge Base for additional questions

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