FATSO™ Jr. / Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor
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Get the rich sound of magnetic tape, class A transformers, and tube circuits.
Able to warmly burnish frequencies and transients, or crush them with thick saturation, the FATSO Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces exhaustively emulates the iconic, industry standard Empirical Labs hardware.
Used by legendary engineers Ed Cherney, Al Schmitt, and Brendan O'Brien, the FATSO can also increase the apparent volume of your source material. The FATSO plug-in is officially endorsed and scrutinized for accuracy by its designer, Dave Derr.Now You Can
Inject your tracks and mixes with the warm, musical qualities of magnetic tape, tubes, and class A transformers
Lightly color, or destroy, drums, vocals, and more with tube and tape saturation
Harness “plug-in only” Tranny Saturation, Sidechain Filtering, and Stereo/Mono controls
Dial-in a wealth of analog textures with Warmth and Spank controls
Powered Plug-In Overview
FATSO Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor plug-in
Go From Tame — to Trashed
The FATSO plug-in offers a wide palette of possibilities for adding fat analog character and cohesiveness to your DAW tracks. It’s also a creative tool, able to add varying degrees of saturation — from subtle to severe — on any source. The FATSO's Input control lets you dial in shades of harmonic generation and distortion, while the Tranny and Warmth features provide varying amounts of of tape and tube tone.
Plug-In Only Features
The FATSO plug-in’s versatility is greatly expanded with the addition of Dave Derr's custom mods. The FATSO Sr. offers a “Tranny” saturation control, Sidechain Filtering and deeper compression parameters including Threshold, Attack and Release. These special FATSO Sr. mods are only available with the UAD Powered Plug-In version of this essential studio tool.
“The Fatso is our secret weapon for warming up abrasive soft synths.”
– The Glitch Mob
“The FATSO is a 'must own' UAD plug-in. I love it on the kick and bass tracks. It's also amazing in the master buss chain.”
– Ivan Barias (Musiq Soulchild, Jill Scott, Estelle)
“The UAD FATSO really brings back the bottom-end warmth to a vocal that's lost its way.”
– Dean Coleman
“When you need something to really punch but still have warmth, the UAD FATSO is my weapon of choice.”
– Richard Devine
“The UAD FATSO is my favorite tool for warming up guitars and bringing out harmonic content.”
– Billy Bush (Garbage)Customer Reviews
D. Fries
November 19, 2019
Good Compressor!
Good with drums, guitar, banjo, but not for everything.
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November 15, 2019
Brings A Vintage Vibe
I was looking for a way to turn my modern sounding drum loops into an early 70’s singer/songwriter vibe. This really warmed things up in a musical way.
Read Morel. morrish-thomas
October 6, 2019
Does incredible things to the drum bus
Just makes drums sit really nicely in the mix. With this you can carefully adjust how much transients get tamed. The tranny section is really useful for translation onto small speakers too...
Read Morej. colin
September 30, 2019
Essential for every engineer
When things get thin call on the fatso! Loveeee it!
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July 17, 2019
Great Parallel Drums Compressor
Versatile on the mix bus for in your face aggression, drums bus, and my favorite implementation compression on a parallel drums bus and tucking it back in. Also something Andrew Scheps does...
Read Moree. mullano
June 27, 2019
Suono caldo ed in evidenza
Da avere, ottimo su Voci, snare, guitars and more
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Key Features
Recreates the warm, musical qualities of magnetic recording tape, tubes, and class A transformers
Licensed and endorsed by Empirical Labs, created by Universal Audio
Clipping, Warmth, Tranny, and Compression Select allow for a wide variety of analog tonal shaping possibilities
Additional UAD plug-in exclusive, FATSO Sr., provides original concept developed by Empirical Labs’ Dave Derr
FATSO Sr. features include Tranny Saturation, Sidechain Filtering plus Threshold, Attack, and Release
Stereo or Mono operation with independent Left/Right controls
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Customer Reviews
FATSO™ Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor
D. Fries
Good Compressor!
Good with drums, guitar, banjo, but not for everything.
UAD User
Brings A Vintage Vibe
I was looking for a way to turn my modern sounding drum loops into an early 70’s singer/songwriter vibe. This really warmed things up in a musical way.
l. morrish-thomas
Does incredible things to the drum bus
Just makes drums sit really nicely in the mix. With this you can carefully adjust how much transients get tamed. The tranny section is really useful for translation onto small speakers too as it brings the harmonics out of the low frequency information
j. colin
Essential for every engineer
When things get thin call on the fatso! Loveeee it!
UAD User
Great Parallel Drums Compressor
Versatile on the mix bus for in your face aggression, drums bus, and my favorite implementation compression on a parallel drums bus and tucking it back in. Also something Andrew Scheps does on a lot of his mixes. He calls that P Drums bus: Fatso.
e. mullano
Suono caldo ed in evidenza
Da avere, ottimo su Voci, snare, guitars and more
G. Kovács
Glue and shine
Fatso is a great plugin, it gives the missing glue and shine to my drum bus, or to basically anything.
L. Romano
Great on drums and bass
I really like what it does to the drum overheads, bass guitar and parallel snare processing.
E. Sambugaro
Good!
Really good! With personal preset, i can use everywhere!
C. Torres
Phenomenal
The fatso is incredible, I have heard it’s effect from the analog and UA plugin and the emulation is a mirror sonic image
T. Feswick
Love it.
Excellent quality. Does exactly what it's supposed to. Love it on bass guitar.
M. Leys
Wow
damn it!!! I tried demo and it's really different and sound great!
It brings a special glue to the mix!I. Batista
So so good!
The Fatso does what its name implies, it makes things fatter in a super musical way; it’s such a beautiful sound. Excellent un drums, percussion, parallel bus...bass, so so good, or should I say Fat?
S. Jacobsen
Just like the Hardware!!! But Better!
I have a buddy who owns one of the Emperical Labs hardware fatso's. I can tell you for sure this plug in emulates it PERFECTLY!!! Great on drums and many other instruments/sources!! Definitely one to own for sure!!!
J. Salazar
Jony_9_94@hotmail.com
It's amazing plugin analogue with transparent and hard compression.
J. Bergeron
Can't live without.
take the piano attack & warm it up!!!!
UAD User
Exactly as promised
This is a great plugin for warmth, saturation and to really tie the room together.
L. Lammert
Sounds great
That’s all :)
S. Scharf
Great Plugin!
WARMTH! Love it!
D. Henry
Fat bottomed compressors make my rocking world go ‘round
Need a parallel compressor that thickens a mix more than grandma’s chicken ‘n dumplings? This plugin is off the charts when it comes to adding low end transformer harmonic information. Such a fun and versatile plugin to use! Great for many ideas!
