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Ocean Way Studios Deluxe

4.8 (173)

Step inside the studio that made history, emulated in perfect end-to-end detail.

  • Place your vocals, drums, guitars, and more inside Ocean Way Studios' legendary rooms
  • Bring your sources to life in Bill Putnam Sr.'s original reverb chambers
  • Transform any track with Ocean Way's original hit-making re-mic setups
  • Shape your sound with the analog consoles and outboard gear heard on hundreds of iconic recordings
  • Put yourself in the control rooms of a world class recording studio with enhanced retina graphics and user interface
  • Also includes original Ocean Way Studios plug-in for Apollo and UAD hardware

Runs natively on your macOS or Windows computer, or accelerated on Apollo audio interfaces or UAD Accelerators. View full system requirements.

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A Renowned Recording Studio in Your DAW

Ocean Way Studios Deluxe goes far beyond the original award-winning UAD plug-in, giving your productions the legendary sound of music’s most historic rooms, reverb chambers, and microphones. Powered by our exclusive Dynamic Room Modeling technology, now you can easily add the same dimension, space, and tone heard on recordings from Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to Whitney Houston, Radiohead, and Beck.*

Learn how we did it ›

What They Say

I’ve spent countless hours in Ocean Way’s A and B rooms, and they’re pure magic. Being able to bring that sound into any DAW session with Ocean Way Studios Deluxe is priceless.

Darrell Thorp

Beck, Radiohead, Foo Fighters

Ocean Way’s Studio B is Bill Putnam Sr.’s flawless masterpiece — a miniature concert hall that makes recordings bigger than life. Now, that sound lives inside the Ocean Way Studios Deluxe plug-in.

Allen Sides

Frank Sinatra, Eric Clapton, Green Day

I spent my early years in Ocean Way Studio B, and this plug-in captures that magic perfectly. The gear, the rooms, even the chambers — everything just sounded right in there, and Ocean Way Studios Deluxe brings that feeling back.

Joey Waronker

Beck, R.E.M, Atoms for Peace

Reviews

4.8
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
Based on 173 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 152 Total 4 star reviews: 14 Total 3 star reviews: 6 Total 2 star reviews: 0 Total 1 star reviews: 1
96%would recommend this product
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173 reviews
  • 田茂
    田中 茂.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    3 days ago
    SOUNDS REAL!!

    It feels like I’m actually there.

  • MG
    Markus G.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 week ago
    I am recording in the Ocean Way Studios - imagine...

    It is not a particularly cheap Studio (...Plugin) , but it offers incredible possibilities. Let alone the microphones you can use in the setups, you heard about, but you certainly cannot afford. Just use them. I am starting to understand the difference of these microphones, I heard about, but cannot afford.

    It is not the Santa Monica Garage anymore and it will not create just a genuine ambience - you are able to work with that studio. I love to work with ambiences and I own a los of plugins, that do perfect job creating convolution reverbs of all kind. I like all of them, but Ocean Way Studios are different. Have your virtual clerks moving around the microphone setups and find YOUR sound in THAT studio.

  • SD
    Scott D.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    The old Ocean Way is wonderful, the new updated version even better!

    I recently recorded, mixed and mastered a jazz album recording for some members of the San Francisco Symphony, using a mix of great mics and other hardware, plus man of the wonderful Universal Audio plugins.

    But these band members couldn't agree on what the final mix balance and "sound" should be. You know the drill: one person wants to hear more reverb, another wants it to sound like it was recorded in 1953, etc. And to complicate matters everyone has their own sound system at home, from $50 headphones up to state of the art ribbon speakers, plus they are getting older so hearing loose plays a part, as does the room they listen to music in, especially if there "room" is a car! And no one is especially adept at communicating with recording engineers.

    So when, kind of out of desperation, I inserted the UAD Ocean Way plugin, and started messing with different room sizes, mic types (dynamic, condenser), mic brands, and placement (far, mid, near)... WOW things started to improve in the mix to the point that now everyone seems like like, even "love", the mix.

    Thanks, Universal Audio for the Ocean Way Studios magic!

  • HR
    Hendrik R.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Ok but CPU hungry. Need UAD-2 version!

    I was scared to update, having the almost unusable ( because of cpu need ) Sound City.

    This one sounds great, the graphics are improved (the older version is really small) and it seems to be a litlle bit less cpu hungry than its sound city sibling.

    I´m sure all of uns UAD-2 users would appreciate a DSP version. That´s what we bought the Octa-satellites for ;)

  • GR
    Gilbert R.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    This Thing is HEAVEN

    This thing makes my drusm so big, I feel like the 1980s could easily make a comeback and be welocmed!

Frequently Asked Questions

No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware is required.
Yes, 14-day plug-in demos are available. Find eligible plug‑ins
We provide three activations per license. We support activation on your computer or on an iLok USB key.
For every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both upon purchase, or the option to get it through an upgrade.
Native plug-ins are supported on macOS and Windows systems. See our Native UAD System Requirements article for full system requirements. An iLok account is required for managing your native plug-in licenses. We support iLok USB keys for portability, but one is not required.

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*Names used herein are for historical reference only and do not imply endorsement of Ocean Way Studios Deluxe.

†Product names herein are used only to represent the gear captured in the making of Ocean Way Studios Deluxe.