UAD Sound City Studios Plug‑In
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UAD Sound City Studios Plug-In
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A. Lubinski
Amazing, game-changing plugin
Awesome, from practicing guitar for it feeling more natural, to busing the drums or even giving some air to the whole mix, very versatile and amazing sounding plugin
M. Vergeade
So Natural !
Incredible ! The way all the instruments find their place is stunning ! TSound City is magic !!!
E. Berger
Requires a bit of patience- but it delivers!
I used up most of the trial period before I decided that I want to buy it. In my Experience, it takes some time getting used to it.
The Plugin adds a very good sounding Room reverb, combined with the Impulse response of several classic Microphone set- ups.
I have used it on a close- miced Guitar Cab (Single Sennheiser E906 few cms from the grille), and that is one of the instances where it works really well.
However, certain samplers, for example have a lot of processing built into the samples themselves.
Sound City Studios adds a lot of character, so it is best to start off with a very dry and unprocessed signal. Close- miced sources work the best, and if there is the possibility to eliminate all kinds of reflections and colorations during the recording process, The plug- in can work it's magic.
The inbuild Impulse Responses of a Greenback- Loaded 4x12 and an AC30 Cabinet are among the best I have tried.
As others have stated, CPU usage is quite high.
J. Ambrose
Big difference in my drums and acoustic guitars.
This is my first UAD plugin. I run a small commercial studio in Hickory NC. This plugin really helps with my drums. My drum room is tightly mic'd and small. I mainly use drum replacement and reverb/eq. This has really opened up my drum recordings.
H. Alkobi
The excitementer.
brilliant plugin that makse you better person.
j. Pitts
Sound City
This plugin is the secret sauce! It makes everything better
B. Roza
Strong plug-in
The sound city plug-in can be applied for lots of purposes. Besides that it can be a source of inspiration for setting up a mix.
L. Skipper
Flexible, versatile reverb
I have another studio reverb that I use on every mix, so I didn't think I needed this. But a trial on one of my mixes convinced me that this studio reverb is flexible enough to allow me to try out presets, and then dial in a reverb studio sound that gives the track just the sound I want.
P. O'Neill
Sound city Studio
I'm not a professional just a music room person. This plugin makes a big difference to the playback sound....like a professional recording.
A. Dimeck
Literally Plug & Go, Absolutely Love This Amazing Plugin !!!
Absolutely Love This Amazing Plugin !!!
For years I have heard successful working Producers & Mix Engineers talk in online video's about putting a particular VST plugin or piece of hardware gear on Your audio project to instanlty take it to the next level.
I put the UAD Sound City Studios Plugin on My Master Stereo Buss and for the 1st time ever My audio project's are now being taken to the next level !!!
This experience has gifted Me with an added confidence to continue to learn and keep improving My audio projects !!!
R. Christe
Great Sound , but as a native plugin hardly usable.
It sounds awsome but even with powerful PCs there are problems with dropouts and crackles if it is not used as the only plugin with only one instance in a project. It really is CPU-greeedy. UAD should offer a UAD-2 DSP version asap.
R. Christe
Would be a great plugin on UAD-2 hardware
A great sounding plugin but as a native hardly usable even on powerful PCs . It should be adapted to UAD-2 hardware urgently.
A. Corbino
Best plug-in
Best plug-in
S. Salo
Instant Vibe and Character
I just got this about a week ago and I am really starting to get into it. I love what I can do with this to guitars. Another cool thing is to remic a VST-instrument through this to get a more natural and acoustic vibe sound the room and the mics, the sound of which can be further sculpted straight from the excellent tools within the plugin itself. Aside from being fun to just play with as I have discovered, Sound City Studios is also very immediately useful for color and vibe purposes - I have also found it to be a quick solution for getting stacked rock guitars to sit nicely in a mix. Highly recommended!
C. Swift
Amazing reverb that kills CPU
I love the sound of this plugin, it's amazing but it comes at a cost. The CPU hit is too much. Please can UAD look into this and make it more usable on windows?
J. Hardy
Sounds like there’s so much potential. Pleased I purchased it.
Put it on a track and it just makes it better. The metal on the drum kit really shines. Anyone worried about the CPU usage I have 8 cores M1 chip 32RAM and none of them were over 25% when I used 5 inserts of the plugin.
Superb.
G. Spiridion
Room Seller
Amazing sounds.
Re-Rocrding and Reverb.
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Excellent to create an environment for your instrument
I like to always have a room that an instrument is recorded in. This is how recordings were always made years ago and how I was taught when I was younger. Get the source recording the way you want it with the proper room, mic positioning, etc., and then the mix is 3/4 done already. Well…nowadays we don’t usually have the luxury of recording in great rooms and normally record everything dry. This plugin is so amazingly fantastic at giving that perfect room sound. I was floored at how easy it was to just insert my dry sound into it and position the mics and set things up the way I wanted and instantly get the sound I wanted. It is a real game changer for me. Usually I am trying to bus my kit and other instruments to a wood room or something and put vocals into ambience before anything just to get started. This makes all that a thing of the past. And it is much nicer and up-to-date than the Ocean way studios plugin. Well done UAD! Fantastic and well worth it. God bless :)
L. Woo
If you are running Mac OS Sonoma, DO NOT BUY.
I absolutely LOVE what this reverb is capable of. I started using it on release running Catalina and it worked like a dream. I used it very consistently and quickly fell in love with it. The plugin is very intuitive, and sounds incredible when utilized tastefully. I had no issues running 10+ instances of this on my system (iMac mid 2020 Retina 5k, 3.6 GHz 10 Core i9, 128 Gigs Ram running Logic Pro X)
**HOWEVER**
I just recently updated my system to Mac OS Sonoma, and now this plug-in is basically unusable. There some CRITICAL issue with the compatibility of this plug-in and Sonoma. The GUI has become unbearably sluggish. It takes 30+ seconds to update ANY changes, and the controls do not respond to input 90 percent of the time. I'm extremely disappointed that UA has not resolved this issues yet.
I still use this plug-in because I love the way it sounds, but it has become a major hindrance in my workflow, and for that reason I cannot recommend it AT ALL at this time. (unless you are NOT on Sonoma.)
Please fix this!! :(
D. Moeller
Sound City Studios would be just awesome if it ran on UAD-2 hardware, but native it's unusable :(
Sound City Studios sounds awesome, but I can only run one instance of this plugin on my PC ( i7 10700k, 64 GB RAM, Cubase Pro 13). This makes it unusable. PLEASE make it available for UAD-2 hardware!