Ocean Way Studios
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Ocean Way Studios
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M. Brown
My room in my Mac just got bigger
To have Ocean Way studio rooms in my Mac. Wow!
My small room though well tuned is no match for the 2 rooms at Ocean Way California. IR/simulation is the closes I can get.
I have never been there, but Its the effort made tracking the 2 rooms that has my attention and tells me how useful the sim will be for me.
Thanks Allen and UAD, I have some line level gear that have benefited from your effort.
My Music Life is much better
T. Labisch
two-trick-pony: Reverb & ReAmping
The special sale plus a coupon convinced me to demo this plugin and finally buy it for 175.-€, although I could only scratch the surface of it. After a few weeks of use it made it's way to one of my fav's:
- for "reamping" guitar/s,
- on the drums bus,
- as a reverb on reverb insert,
- as "glue" on the master bus.
The presets work fine for me as a starting point. It helps to put your mix into "one defined room". But to get deeper I will have to invest some time to experiment with all the features.
So I think the money is well spent (although the original price of 349.- would have been too high for me)
H. Luton
Ocean Way
So far it's proving yo be really nice i'm not sure about some of the re micing claims and how accurate they are but if it sound good then job done, i find myself using it a lot more to be creative and twist sounds around which it is fantastic for, however its still early days so i would need to live with it a lot longer to be fair....The price is quite hefty so i can't really be sure of value for money that being said i am a total UADer so i guess i'm trapped and like a lot of the other reviewers a little biased
D. Hrivnak
My Favorite Plug-In By Far
In my opinion, this plug-in has set the bar for what computer code can do for audio production. In that regard, I think it's second only to DAWs. I'm primarily a hardware man, but I this plug-in always makes at least one layer in every track sound better, and I use it all the time.
If you take this plug-in as seriously as you should, and you learn how to use it well, you will add an incredibly powerful tool to your studio.
D. Fa
Ocean Way Studios Rocks!!!
I've been using the Ocean Way Studios plugins in my latest mix (Hard Rock Band), and I inserted it iinto the drum room mics and was very impressed. It brought the drums to life and when I bypass it I feel I can't live without it. I've also used it to re-mic some of the guitars using the 44 8 model and I love how it brings out the mid-range without stepping over the Vocals. I'm still getting to grips with it but I'm very satisfied with the results. Highly recommended.
T. Bronner
Ocean Way Studios Plug-In
Great plugin for drums to give them a superb over all room sound or to have just a luxury reverb bus.
Remiking clean guitars works like charm too - i really love the airy, bloomy sound!
K. Fujishiro
Ocean Way Studio is worth buying.
Ocean Way Studio is an extravagant and worth buying emulator for vocal and instruments. I used several instruments per song I make and I always find difficulties to make all the instruments to be heard and well balanced mix.But when I used Ocean Way Studio,every instruments are placed exactly the way it should sound in my mix. I do own popular brands of plugin effects, but I think plugins which I purchased from Universal Audio are the most reliable and outstanding plugins I've ever had. They are worth buying, it never tax my CPU and I have these kind of satisfaction that I really did an investment wise purchased of UA plugins regarding with the result of my mix and master.
F. Cabanillas
watch it,it can drain you dsp
I love it,I love the way instruments and vocals sound with it,and i know i need more time working with it because it might seem simple,but it is not a simple reverb at all....the big downfall is that you need almost a full UA satellite quad dedicated to it,it drains dsp....
J. Bordner
Remarkable, one-of-a-kind
I just started using Ocean Way to bring life to DI bass tracks, sampled drums and pianos, etc., and have been more than pleased. This is an effect that would take me hours to dial in with an ordinary reverb, if it could be done at all. Instant realism. I almost gave it 4 stars because I wish I had a bit more control over mic placement, but I assume that would take some real rocket-science style math, and might not really change the plug's capability anyway. A great plug-in.
T. Koeroglu
Good Musicians and Good Rooms!
I am really happy with a room sounds. Acoustic Guitar Piezo Rescue Plug In' Thanks UA...Happy New Year...!...Peace:)
S. Goodison
Quality effect!
I love this plugin's reverb mode, it can give a real ambience or a huge powerful spacious sound to a drum kit. I haven't had much chance to play with the re-mic mode yet, but I will definitely be exploring it as much as possible.
Demo it, play with it a lot, try the rooms, mics, distances and see what it can do. There's so much to get through in just 1 plugin.
J. Aguirre
Ocean Way Brought Me Back
I haven't bought a UAD plugin since before the UAD-2 existed but this plugin convinced me to upgrade to the UAD-2 and try it out. I don't regret spending the money because I know the value of an acoustic space and a good room. Sample Modeling have excellent brass solo and ensemble instruments and this helps put them in a studio with other orchestra libraries I have and helps blend them beyond belief. If you haven't tried this plugin yet especially for orchestral instruments, I highly recommend trying it out for the purpose of blending libraries together. So worth the money and IMO priceless
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Ocean Way Reverb
It's the best sounding reverb plugin out there.
Well crafted and easy to use.
F. Walbrun
great tool
I really do like the ocean way plugin. Turns your digital stuff into a fat analog sounding world.
F. Sonnauer
Ocean Way/perfect room replacer
I have the Ocean Way Rooms for three weeks now and I´m goin to love it. It`s a perfect tool for replacing, as example drums, if u don`t like your drum room mics, take your close mics and build your own room, great.
But sometimes if you don`t have a perfekt equalized signal it`s not so easy to find a good sound, I think room A is a bit muffly and then I´m getting problems in the midrange of the mix. But you can fix that easy with a eq or maybe you guys don`t have that kind of problem, but I like to control the room frequencies with a Multiband behind the ocean way, it becomes more dynamic.
At least I have to experiment much more with this tool, it`s a must have Room plugin.
Have fun
Greatings Franz
Raum20 Tonstudio München
c. yeorae
i love uad
i love uadi love uadi love uadi love uad
A. Crowley
Feels like you are there, moving the mics around in the room
Used re-mic mode with a 414 - close your eyes with headphones on and you are there in the room, moving the mics around. You can hear the surface of the walls and the cab at the end of the room. I've heard good convolution etc. reverbs which create ambience etc. before but never felt I was there in the room moving the mics around. Fancy a C12, omni maybe? Just click the switch.
The way the phases change and interact and really give a true three dimension to the sound.
One thing, using re-mic mode, on the presets the close mic is often a metre or two away from source, so they can seem very wet. I think this may confuse people at first. Just pull that first mic close and it springs into life :)
T. Vines
Space without having space
In a home project studio acoustics is always a fight. This plugin, when used on a very dry signal, gives the illusion of having been recorded in a fine acoustic space. It's a wonderful choice to have available in your DAW.
E. Halterman
Nice space!
Overall I liked it and used it with some success in certain situations. For sure better than the DreamVerb, but please UAD, take it to the next level and give us a convolution reverb that will be #1 on this planet... thanks!
J. Escalona
Exciting to an extent.
A beast on drums. Doesn't work on everything though. Use it sparsely. Takes up a lot of DSP and space in a mix.